Everything About Design You Should Know

grace   04/27/2017   10250 Views UI/UX design, as the top spot in the top ten most influential IT skills, is very attractive for the layman and the novice designer both on  job market prospects  and salary. This is why so many people are eager to switch to be an interface designer or user experience designer. Somebody told me that you are also considering to change career. So you want to be a UX designer? Before you made the decision, I have some questions for you. How much knowledge do you know about user experience? Do you know how to become a user experience designer? Here is some experience summarized by predecessors in the user experience design industry for reference at first. 1. Do you know what a user experience designer does? The terms of  UX, UI, IA, and IxD  are always complicated for layman or people who new to the design industry, so they cannot figure out what’s the difference between the terms. If you want to be a user experience de...

Mobile application market keeps in an explosive growth rate with the arrival of the 4G network era. Which drives the rapid development of mobile app screen design. Meanwhile, the big market also has a great  job prospect for designers . How to make their own products stand out in the mobile application market is the opportunity and as well as challenges for UI designers. In addition to the function itself to attract users, the APP interface design also occupies a large part of the factors. Facing with the serious homogeneity on mobile app screen design and low competitiveness and other issues in the current mobile application market, how the app interface design trend will develop in the future to jump out of the cycle and find new opportunities? Fundamentally, the following points are worth considering: UI design principles Mobile interaction design rules How to judge an APP is good or not UI Design Principles 1. Consistency principle. The consistency ...

The fast development of the information society stimulates not only the rapid update of the mobile phone, but also the fast iteration of the mobile Apps. To make an excellent mobile App, designers have to think a lot. The first thing is how to build mobile app prototypes. There are some guidelines of mobile App prototype you have to know: 1. The definition of mobile app prototype. 2. How to build a mobile app prototype? 3. Choosing a good mobile app prototyping tool. 4. Catching the design trends of the mobile app. 5. Learning excellent cases of mobile app prototype. Then you are able to complete an excellent mobile app prototype. 1. The definition of mobile app prototype Wireframe and Mockup both are  different stages of prototyping . What does the prototype of the mobile app prototype mean? It refers to a mobile app model that not only shows your ideas and concepts but also performs functional and interactive presentations. 2. How to b...

UI/UX design, as the top spot in the top ten most influential IT skills, is very attractive for the layman and the novice designer both on  job market prospects  and salary. This is why so many people are eager to switch to be an interface designer or user experience designer. Somebody told me that you are also considering to change career. So you want to be a UX designer? Before you made the decision, I have some questions for you. How much knowledge do you know about user experience? Do you know how to become a user experience designer? Here is some experience summarized by predecessors in the user experience design industry for reference at first. 1. Do you know what a user experience designer does? The terms of  UX, UI, IA, and IxD  are always complicated for layman or people who new to the design industry, so they cannot figure out what’s the difference between the terms. If you want to be a user experience designer, you have to know what is user expe...

Many product managers and UI designers I know believe that, paper prototyping is free and unrestricted. Since every component can be represented by shapes, even those complicated interactions can also be easily showed with arrows and other connections. Thus, compared with using wireframe software, paper prototyping is faster and easier. This is, in fact, an underestimation to our learning ability. Just like driving is, objectively, more difficult than riding a horse, we still can’t say it’s freer to ride. To dig deeply, we find an important concept missing in this thought --- user experience. A draft, which may be able to show interactions, cannot demonstrate the process because the only way to know user experience is to experience, without a single step left. Even in speed, paper prototyping isn’t better than wireframe software, since it takes more time to communicate with developers once there’s only a draft available. Frankly there’ve been more and more PM & UI designers who re...

Production: Every morning, you can see people are rushing to their offices by different communications. Some people take a taxi for time-saving, some others take buses for cost-saving, and also some people chose to walk to office for exercising. This scene reminds me of the designers choose wireframe tools for Mac. In fact, this is the same reason for the designer to choose wireframe tools. Before making achoose, designers always consider the cost, effectiveness, and speed. What is wireframe? It is an indispensable part of job for  UI/UX designers . Thus, you should have a careful comparison of these wireframe tools. I learned that most of the designers prefer to design on mac. Here we've selected 9 of the best wireframe tools for Mac to get you started. Enjoy! 1.  Axure When we talk about prototyping tools, we should mention Axure in the first place. Everyone knows that it’s a powerful tool with a variety of functions. Such as wireframe, flow chart, and interacti...

Conceptual confusion often brings a lot of trouble to designers and some people who are related to design. For example, wireframe and mockup are called the prototype.  Is the wireframe different from prototype?  What’s the difference of wireframe VS mockup? Which one is your best choice? To get a clear understanding of these issues, you have to figure out what is wireframe, and what is mockup? This article respectively introduces the wireframe and mockup from their definition and advantages. Wireframe VS Mockup, you will find which one is more suitable for your design. What is Wireframe? Usually, we compare the wireframe to the blueprint for a building. Why do we describe it like this? The wireframe is able to express the outline of a design, the overall structure and the key elements. It is generally composed of simple lines and graphics. It shows the user interface in black, blue or grey. Wireframe VS mockup, wireframe pays more attention to the content rather...

The flourishing of various mobile devices stimulated the explosive growth of the mobile Apps. From the rapid development of the mobile market, we can see it’s an age of accelerating technology on mobile App design and development. One of the most important part during App development is building wireframes which can reasonably organize and simplify the content and elements. Low fidelity is the key feature of wireframes. It will present the design idea and App prototype of the product in a more intuitive and simple way. In addition to saving time, wireframes but also provide great advantages for designers focusing on product user experience. Here is a list of the 5  best free wireframe tools for mobile apps  in 2017. 1. Paper prototyping Pricing: free forever Pen & paper are the total free wireframing/prototyping tools, no matter from the point of time & capital cost, usability, learnability, as well as the practicability. Comparing with  other wirefra...