Everything About Design You Should Know

Flowchart design  is familiar to a majority of people, which makes versatile explaining and presenting of the process and also offers a fresh view which distinguishes it from black and white flowcharts on the paper. This kind of  design approach  is getting popular in recent years, but it’s not easy to explain “what is a flowchart design”. Perhaps those words of “user experience”, “interaction design” or “page structure” may come to your mind this moment, but that’s all? The answer is absolutely not. What Is a Flowchart Design? In a plain word, the  flowchart design is a type of diagram representing a workflow, process or algorithm . It’s a combo of Start, End, Action, State and Judge. Based on different project and the given goal, there are generally four types of flowchart design, including Product Flowchart, Business Flowchart, Operation Flowchart as well as UI Flowchart. Obviously, the UI flowchart can be used as a starting point for design planning and acts...

Have you meet some problems on the UI design for mobile devices? For example, small mobile screens? Bad user experience? In this article, I will cover some things you can do to learn practical user interface design ( UI design ). 1. UI design principle Don’t think the practical  UI design  principle does not apply to small mobile screens. Five elements of UI design you should take into consideration: 1). Goal-driven Design. This allows you to customize the app working process and meet requirements for target users. 2). Usability. It may look empty, but you have to guarantee your application is usable. Users don’t like to download a complex app from App Store. Usability makes your product useful and hopeful. 3). Affordance & Signifiers. The signifier is an implication of affordance.For example, underlined blue text reminds you it’s a hyperlink, and it can link to other pages when you click it. With correct signifier, users can easily understand UI eleme...

UX has been a buzzword  that bounces around the design world, endorsed and  adopted  by designers and developers. In many cases, highly respected developers who claim to be talking about ”UX” in a product demonstration are in fact showing a large number of UI features. I doubt much that the vague definition may account for this kind of misunderstanding. We’ve heard of UI (User interface) and UX (User Experience). When you build an App or a website with  Mockplus , we will talk to you about both. If  UX is not UI , What is the exact difference? The Definition of UX UX is not UI , then what is the definition of UX exactly? Here I am not going to shoot the cliche but to provide you with a intuitive introduction which will help you to get a quick understanding of why UX is not UI.  Good UX design focuses on the interactive side of the product, how it behaves, such as a box sliding out, and how people might interact with it, such as where they will...

Mobile app User Interface design  trends keep changing based on varying user needs. However, that does not mean UI design trends for mobile apps  in 2018 could not be predicted. Actually, after carefully analyzing UI design trends and innovations in the past few years, we could find some laws behind and predict the possible trends that will also continue into the following 2018. Hence, here we will share top 9 UI design trends of mobile App for you in 2018: 1). Overlapping effects The overlapping of fonts, graphics and colors cannot only make UI designs more eye-catching and distinctive, but also create a sense of space. And that’s also why overlapping of different mobile app UI design elements has been widely used by designers in recent years. Moreover, in some cases, the overlapping of the same elements, combining with shadows, will also make the whole mobile app interface designs more fantasy and impressive. Hence, the overlapping of different elements in mobile ap...

In today's highly competitive design industry, the portfolio is the key factor which attracts the interviewer's attention. Therefore, building a good UI designer portfolio is the key to your ideal UI design job. Following are design principles and tips on how to build an outstanding  UI design portfolio . Showing the whole design process As is known that, the background story is an essential factor when designing a character, and the same as the UI portfolio design. For the newbie, it's not a smart choice to show screenshots of your work to the interviewer. Then he may switch the next one. Screenshots can only convey "what this is", but can not express "why it is." A good UI design is a journey exploring solutions, and we should clearly express how your design comes and evolves. Here are some ways to show the whole design process: Step 1: Showing your design thinking Showing how you think, start with this project and how the process is. Thes...