Everything About Design You Should Know

Looking for the Best Prototyping Tool for Windows? Still looking for the best prototyping tool that can turn your ideas into visual prototypes to the fullest as an experienced product interaction UI/UX designer on your Windows 7/8/10 computer? Or still searching for a top Windows prototyping program for practicing and improving yourself as a beginner? No worry! In order to solve such problems,  5 best prototyping tools for Windows  users will be introduced here and hope you can find the one that suits you the best here: 1. Axure RP Compatibility: Windows and Mac Price: Free Trial - 30 days Pro - $29/month, Team -$49/moth, Enterprise -$99/month Axure RP is a professional and all-in-one windows prototyping tool often recommended and used by most experienced UX designers thanks to its powerful functions, like exporting visualized conditional flow, adding vivid animations and data-driven interactions, and completing a team project, etc. And it can help edit a projec...

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 Interaction Free 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 highly qualified authorities as authors.” They are well written by more than 100 design experts, bestselling authors as well as Ivy League professors. Those textbooks, featur...

What is A User Persona? User persona is a method / tool created in product design & development process to represent the characters of a group pf people. It answers the questions like “For whom we design the product?” and “What are the characters of this group of people?” which enable the product made to meet the real needs of its users. User personas also make the product design process easier by offering a vivid character of users. User Persona vs. User Market Segmentation User Persona is different from “User Market Segmentation”, the latter is to analyze users’ behavior based on their characters and mentality; the former focuses more on “How do the users see and use the product?” In other words, even though human properties like gender, age, occupation and income are among the reference factors when creating a customer persona, they are not what distinguish a persona from another, as they don’t have absolute influence on users’ behaviors. In fact, the similar behaviors a...

For students, one of the most significant stages is the transition from student to workers. The internship represents a major first step as a professional user experience designer. Internships are a great opportunity to know the field and explore the great career potential in a very short time. But the employment requirement often scares away many new comers at the first step of applying for a user experience design internship. We can usually read a UX intern job description posting like this: "More than 7 years of UX design expertise, good at interactive design, front-end web development ..." These requirements are too harsh for interns under this kind of user experience job description. Graduates rarely have specific project experience on UX design, let alone the professional UX design experience over 7 years. But these are not completely invalid, or unrealistic requirements. At least, it can help to identify the people who are really want to learn  what is user experi...