Everything About Design You Should Know

The development Momentum of the UX industry turns into a gusher in recent years, more and more young people want to get into the industry. However, they don’t know much about user experience design.  How to be a good user experience designer? UX design books Gorky once said that books are the ladder of human progress. If you want to be a qualified designer, why not make use of the books to progress your design? Of course, there are thousands of user experience books, which one should you choose? According to different design problems, I carefully selected seven user experience books in 2017 for you. 1. Mobile Interface Design Mobile Interaction Design  by Matt Jones & Gary Marsden This book was written before the occurrence of iPhone. Although the theory of mobile interface design is a little bit old, it’s worth reading. Case study and research problem make it become the ideal choice for student and beginner. It provides perfect technology for designers...

You want to sell more products, generate more downloads and registrations on your website? No problem. You basically have two options; On the one hand, you can bring in more relevant website visitors. However, that is usually associated with higher marketing costs or a great deal of time. Or, you can take full advantage of the existing visitors and increase their conversion rate. The advantage of this method is that a one-time cost can give you permanent positive effects. Website user testing help you to check the usability of your website and to avoid the  mistakes that are killing your conversions . 1. How does an unmoderated usability test take place? In an unmoderated website usability test, you ask participants to solve previously defined tasks on your website. Since an quantitative or analytics only based observation gives no information about the thoughts and feelings of the tester, the participants of the UX test are encouraged to follow a “think aloud” protocol, speak...

How to become a full stack developer?  As one of the hottest topics for developers, the discussions have never stopped. On LinkedIn and Facebook, lots of people put their job title as a full stack developer. Besides, it seems that the “Full Stack” topic has already become a new job trend. An article on Medium has discussed the  full stack designer  getting both praise and blame. Some people think that the full stack is just a title, what he/she should focus on is the real personal ability and technology. Essentially, I think the discussion about the full stack is also a kind of argument relating to the all-rounder and expert in the IT industry, and debate on the depth and breadth of development skills. You can't have your cake and eat it too. While the full stack developers and full stack designers seem like they are challenging this possibility. Because their horizontal skills tree gives them the ability to both have and eat the cake. There is another saying is that...

Interaction Design, also known as Interactive Design (IxD), is the field to design the behavior of human-computer systems. As an interaction designer, we have to create the content and functions of products that are useful, easy to use, user-friendly, technically feasible, and of commercial interest. All of these are meant to improve the user experience. This article is going to talk about 10 basic principles of interaction design. Whether it is for the traditional graphical user interface or for any smart electronic devices, you can’t find it more useful. 1. Follow the user's mental model Most of users are operating the interface just based on their instinct. In short, when they encounter a button, they will think this button will be triggered to meet their needs. But if this button get triggered in some other operation ratner than user's expectation, it must be a bad design. 2. Meet the user's needs The most basic principle of interaction design is to meet the ...