Everything About Design You Should Know

Whenever found an interface that looks nice, clean and elegant, I save it. Now I have a collection of more than 100  UI interfaces . After learning, making use of or simply viewing it again and again, I finally realized something in common. It is always the color that steals my heart at the very first look. So here, I’d like to make a conclusion about  how to use color in UI design wisely . A serious note first, what I wrote can’t turn you into an excellent UI designer magically, but I promise you’ll learn something here. If this is actually useful, please leave me a comment. 1. The magic power of color Color can speak, as powerful as language. You just can’t argue me about that. Think back whenever you encounter a site or a product, it is the visual appearance, which largely depends on color, that always leaves you the very first impression. So, what color can do actually? 1) Reflect the personality ofa brand Color can set the basic tone,mood, connotation and conce...

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 wireframing...

A mobile device, with sufficient battery and powerful wifi, that’s enough to bring us a wonderful world of unlimited information and pleasure. We are all living in the mobile world. How to beautify this world toward optimized user experience? How to present clear UI and UX on a limited screen without overload? Many elements should concern, and I bet  mobile typography  is an important one. Mobile design requires highly details and elaboration. Every elements chose on this one small screen should be of both aesthetics and functionality. It’s quite challenging to make mobile typography work for your users just right. But there is actually a practical way to follow, this article describes essential practices of  typography in mobile design . First, basic knowledge of typography As a designer or even a developer, some may have never been usually trained or learnt about typography. This is not a good thing. You don’t have to but you really should. 1. What is typograph...