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The Best Product/UX Interview Question
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The Best User Interview QuestionUser Interviews are awesome.They’re one of the first UX Research strategies I advocate for on many cases. They can help us understand what the problems are, why are they happening and even discover opportunities.There are many things we can ask the user, and each project has its peculiarities. However, from my personal experience, there’s one question which works on all kinds of contexts. I love it. It’s the best User Interview question I know, by far. Here I share my precious, without further ado.The Best User Interview Question is:Tell me about the last time you __.That’s it.It’s the first question I usually ask. I might do 1-hour interviews where everything originates just from this single question. And it always generates insights. No exception. I call it (...)

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How #ai-Based #ux Design Will Shape the Future of Business Branding
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rootinfosol.comWhile Artificial intelligence (AI) is used mainly for predicting human actions based on data analytics and interpretation, the User Experience (UX) principle also focuses on anticipating the course of user behavior. So, they have a connection, right? When both try to anticipate human behavior, they can work hand in hand in different contexts. This is why in the context of mobile user experience, AI is playing an important a role.AI can really shape the user experience in more ways than one, and when doing so, it can positively impact business branding. Here we are going to explain how this is happening.Having an In-Depth Understanding of the UserThe earlier version of AI was algorithms that on the basis of user data and rules of dealing with them could make choices and (...)

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I Think my Company Needs Some #ux
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I Think My Company Needs Some UXThere comes a time when a team, company or leader starts to consider whether User Experience (UX) might come in handy.Some people never heard about it.Some people saw someone do it at their previous company.Some people got their business going down like a comet on fire with a product where customers are spitting lava and nobody knows what to do.If any of these fit your case, I’m glad you’re here.Now, this is not a guide on how to become a UX Designer. Also, I’m not going to define UX or explain the details of each process.This is about HOW: How to start doing it inside a Company, by understanding when to do each process and the way to approach it.Getting Everyone On BoardIf you or anyone on the team don’t know yet what is the expected outcome from UX, we need to (...)

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Top 5 New #seo Trends For Your Website in 2019
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SEO Trends 2019Google has made changes regarding mobile responsiveness and website speed related efforts to make sure they’re delievering the most optimized search results. Now, let’s get into the nitty-gritty of these changes right away.Mobile-First IndexingProceeding from last years trend of mobile raking, Google is still doing much effort in looking at a mobile version of your website for the purpose of ranking and indexing. This does not matter whether you have a mobile version on your website. If not, Google still looks at a desktop version to rank your page. However, users with mobile devices won’t be able to navigate and read your page. This page is not displayed to them. For that case, you will need to update your website for mobile browsing. In this way, Google will be able (...)

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Journey Through FinovateEurope 2019
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Jim Marous and UXDA’s presenter Karlis JonassNo doubt, if there’s a place you could call the innovation epicenter of the financial world, it’s #finovate. It brings voice to the future banking and illuminates what will be the common practice of tomorrow. This year UXDA stepped on the stage beside other world’s leading finance innovators and influencers to demonstrate which direction the financial industry is heading to. UXDA outlined the rising significance of delightful user experience #design in financial services — definitely one of the routes the future of banking will take. Here’s a recap of the most remarkable Finovate memories to inspire every financial professional who aims to reinvent banking.▻https://medium.com/media/ef2ac6d98e08e1e48f6da3de24525bf3/hrefMissionThe world of finance is (...)

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#ai is Having a Big Impact on Web Design, and it’s Only the Beginning
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Photo: Production Perig / Adobe StockBack in 1993, the introduction of the Mosaic graphical web browser touched off a revolution in the way the public experienced and used the growing internet. Ever since, web designers the world over have worked continuously to establish and refine what solid #ux design means online. Some of the evolutions have been the result of advancing technology, such as the rise of broadband internet enabling multimedia content, or the development of the HTML5 standard. Others have come from data-driven studies of what works and what doesn’t and an iterative process to reach perfection.Any way you look at it, however, the field of web design has spent the last 25 years growing and changing our collective vision of what the internet can and should look like. Now, (...)

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Improving the UX of PSprices.com: Structure to increase conversion.
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A while ago I decided as a hobby project to improve the User Experience of PSprices.com. I love the price monitoring product that they build, but the UX is quite a mess. As I’m focused on UX and not on #design, I tried to keep the design and branding unchanged.Normally I would never make any changes to a website withouth analysing the existing usage data. In this case, as I’m not involved with the website, I had to make some assumptions.Before and afterMy main focus in the new UX is to help the user reach his goal of: Buying the game now when the price is low, or buying it later when the price drops more. By reducing unnecessary info, improving the flow through the page I created a UX design that is very likely to perform better in reaching the user’s goal (and the business goal of the (...)

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10 #ux Tips To Create High-Performing Landing Pages
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A landing page could be the homepage of a website or any web page, representing a particular product or event, where the user lands on. The intent behind having a landing page for any website is to present a product, without bragging (using clear and precise content, and images). But the success of this page’s #design depends on whether the user decides to take the specified action — such as signing up for updates or making a purchase.Is your landing page successful in persuading users to take the desired action? If not, then it could be because your landing page is not able to offer the expected user experience, which ultimately results in a lot of failed conversions. This article focuses on the checklist of user experience practices that you should be cross-checking while designing your (...)

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Solutions for private key management in decentralized apps
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How to reconcile #ethereum’s call for decentralization and users’ need for support services?On Ethereum, private keys are used to access accounts, sign messages etc. Once you lose access to your private key, you lose access to all funds stored with that account.How is that different from losing a credit card pin code? It is you can’t ask the bank to give you a new code, because the bank doesn’t exist on Ethereum. Your funds are still credited to your address on the #blockchain, but there is no way for you to withdraw them.Accounts and [DApp-] services on the Ethereum blockchain aim to be decentralized, and no one is safekeeping access codes on your behalf.A service storing your private key in its database would be able to access your funds at any moment — just like a bank — and this is (...)

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How to Test the #usability of Your Prototypes on Mobile and Desktop Devices?
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Broadly speaking, usability testing is a technique used in usercentered interaction design in order to evaluate a product by testing on users. It allows companies to test a basic version of mobile app or website before dedicating time toward coding and developing stage. Why worry about usability so early when prototyping already has a big todo list? Because “Unless your product is usable, all your testing will tell you is that people don’t like terrible products”.Without any doubt, usability testing can start without prototyping, and those tests may pinpoint the best way to structure your information architecture or prototype’s navigation. Some popular preprototyping tests include Card Sorting, Tree Testing and Interviews. It’s different between testing a prototype and testing a functional (...)

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6 principles for designing #blockchain apps for non-technical users
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A case study using one of the Consensus ’18 hackathon-winning dAppsEarlier this month at the 2018 CoinDesk Consensus Hackathon in New York, my team signed up to build a supply chain blockchain app to track NYC produce from farm to restaurant. When I asked the on-site local sustainability worker who the users were, she told me that some farmers who needed to use the app were “70 years old, don’t check their email and can’t use the current Excel spreadsheet system”.I was stunned. How were we supposed to build a blockchain app for a 70-year old farmer who can’t even figure out Microsoft Office?Challenges like this will only grow more common, as at least 80% of people in the world do not know what blockchain is. Unfortunately, #dapps (apps with some data or logic on a blockchain) for regular (...)

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The Ultimate Collection of #prototyping Tools for #ux/UI Designers
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Wireframing tools make creating a website or application fundamentally easier. It simplifies the communication between UX designers and clients and saves us much time on product development. This post has listed more than 20 different UX prototyping tools.There are 5 types of prototyping tools:Multi-page toolsTools for mobile prototypeTools for web prototypeTools for static wireframeTools for interactive prototypeMulti-page toolsThese tools are used to create click-through prototypes of web, desktop and mobile applications. Prototypes are built with images from existing screens. It allows you to upload image from Photoshop, local, Dropbox, Google Drive etc. With just a few clicks, you can link the screens together and turn your designs into interactive mobile and web (...)

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15 Latest and Best Loading Animations to Make User Enjoy Waiting
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Nowadays, since internet speed has been highly improved, people can smoothly open a website/app within seconds and get their desired information quickly. However, sometimes, it is unavoidable to let them wait since there is a large amount of data/pages that need to be processed/loaded/downloaded.In such cases, what are you supposed to do for keeping them stay on the website/app longer instead of leaving directly as a UX/UI designer? How about adding a beautiful, interesting and eye-catching loading #animation to retain visitors in your site/app #design? But, don’t know how to design such an eye-catching and user-friendly loading gif that makes user enjoy waiting?Here is our collection of 15 latest and best loading animations for you to get inspiration:1. Orb animation WIPDesigner：Aleksey (...)

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12 Free #ux & #ui Books That Worth Your Reading for 2018
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Though UX/UI design has no widely-accepted definition, we can still say with certainty that it’s about the user and creating the pleasure when using a project. Such a big subject can be intimidating on first glance, and the sheer amount of UX/UI books also make most of us feel overwhelmed. For those looking for expert techniques so as to get an edge in UX design, we have rounded up a complete list of 12 free UX and UI books that anyone can enjoy and benefit from. Take a look and may you find the favorite one to sharpen your skills!1. The Encyclopedia of Human Computer InteractionFree and high quality textbooks recommended by Don Norman, “I highly recommend the Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction, the breadth and the depth of the invited contributions are quite impressive, all with (...)

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What is Interaction #design And How it Works?
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“Interaction design” is not a fresh term in the design industry. While batches of Rookies are flocking in this industry with questions about this term. For example, what is interaction design and what are its principles? How’s it work and what’s the interaction design progress?Interaction design, often abbreviated as IxD, is “the practice of designing interactive digital products, environments, systems, and services.” While the digital side of this statement is true, interaction design is also useful when creating physical (non-digital) products, exploring how a user might interact with it. Common topics of interaction design include design, human–computer interaction, and software development. While interaction design has an interest in form (similar to other design fields), its main area (...)

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Major Mobile UI/UX Trends that Will Dominate in 2018
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The trends in mobile UI keep changing constantly. What was popular this year will definitely become an old story the next year. A successful developer has to keep in touch with the latest trends in both UI (User Interface) and UX (User Experience) because they have the user in mind, and user requirements keep changing.According to User Experience Professionals Association (UXPA), UX #design is an important discipline that’s related to all the elements that create the interface — layout, brand, text, sound, visual design, interaction and layout. Of course, it is understandable that one of the main components is usability, meaning, how the user navigates your app. Do they find it easy? Or do they have to perform several taps to download something?Users like to access an app that instantly (...)

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