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Beginners’ Guide on Why and How to Make Web Design Mood Board?

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If you are a new-starter, you may ask what the  web design mood board  exactly is. It’s often used when designing for website’s user experience and helpful for delivering your organization’s personality, branding guideline as well as communication style. This method is based on a consensus that the pictures are more persuasive than the text, and it’s somewhat like the “Inspiration Board” and “ Story Board ”. Sometimes, the visual designers may spend a long time completing a pretty fine and high-quality design, but only to find the final results cannot meet the needs of the users. A majority of users in fact don’t know what kind of design they need before the final product comes out, but it’s easy for them to determine whether the deliverables are up to their own preferences and expectations. In this case, it’s of great importance to understand the demands and expectations of users so as to prevent vast time and energy from being invested at a wrong place. Here, the use of mood boa

Horizontal Scroll in App Design, Why Is It Worthy of Attention?

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With mobile screens getting bigger, users’ demand for more content also increases. How to present sufficient content on a limited screen? I guess this question has always bothered many UI/UX designers. Horizontal scroll in App design, in that case, has gained favor among most designers. Traditional design methods for extensible content includes list sliding of Y direction, 3D Touch of Z direction, portal content folding, etc. In this article, I am going to discuss the horizontal scroll in App design, which may first appear in the Horizontal sliding design of Windows Phone. In general, it’s used to extend content along the X axis on a single page. Nowadays, this  interaction design  is widely applied in various Apps. However, every cloud has a silver lining. Though Horizontal Scrolling Lists does present more content on one page, problems concerning good user experience also arise, such as poor visibility, priority chaos, and mixed content. Therefore, when applying this interaction

Most Useful Website Checklist to Optimize User Experience In 2017

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“User experience optimization of the existing products” is a common term of  UX designer responsibilities . Products are continuously improved in the process of rapid iterations. Just like raising a new-born baby, in the progress of growing up, the parents will encounter many problems. Optimize the user experience of existing products and their functions carry significant weight as design itself. In this case, a useful website checklist is required to optimize user experience logically. However, designers tend to give priority to implement new functions and features rather than optimize user experience. As a result, UX optimization becomes less important and be delayed on the schedule indefinitely.Certainly, we can discover shortcomings or bugs by doing massive assessments. But in reality, the assessment is usually unable to carry on for plenty limitations, including time, user invitation, site, equipment, etc. Then you might ask, is there another way for designers to discover and