How to Create Guidelines and Standards for Websites or Applications

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Creating guidelines and standards for websites or applications

While some methods may vary one of the most important starting points for any project is a set of guidelines. Creating guidelines and standards for every project (even if it isn’t originally in scope) can increase your workflow and will …

How A/B Testing Works and How to Use It With Google Analytics

How does AB testing work and how to use it with Google Analytics

A/B testing is a term use to compare one design with another in order to maximize conversion rates. The method has been popularized by the marketing world for emails, ads or fliers to see what yields the best returns. Now, …

What are HTML Imports and How Do They Work?

What are HTML imports and how do they work

Have you ever noticed that including another HTML page inside another is like a foreign concept? It’s something that should be easy to do but you don’t see it often. It’s not impossible but tricky. However, HTML imports makes placing …

UX and Content Strategy: How They Are Related and Why You Should Care

UX and Content Strategy

What is more important: User experience or content? I hate this type of question and to me they don’t make sense. It’s like asking a kid who he loves more — mom or dad. Or even worse, trying to figure …

Primer on Types of Navigation in Mobile Apps

Types of Navigation in Mobile App Designs - List Grid Top Bottom Expanding

Navigation patterns can vary, even when it comes to prototyping mobile application interfaces. Even though they may seem to impose tight restrictions, because of small sizes and necessity to compactly arrange lots of data, there are a variety of options. Once there …

Easy Mobile Browser Testing with Chrome Emulation

Easy Mobile Browser Testing with Chrome Emulation

Testing designs across multiple browsers has always been a pain. When you add in various devices and their resolutions, you have quite the headache on your hands. How do you know that your navigation menu is responsive across all resolutions? …

Using backface-visibility and CSS Animations

Using backface-visibility and CSS Animations

There are so many fun and interesting design possibilities with backface-visibility. When you turn an element over, what do you want to see? By default, we see a mirror image of an element when it is turned over. While this effect …

The Incremental Design, 10 Surprising MVPs and Their Current Versions

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The Incremental Design, 10 Surprising MVPs and Their Current Versions

Exhausted after hours of final tests, fixes and improvements, I thought I’d pass out at my desk. The sleep, though, didn’t come that night. My veins were full of adrenaline and my mind full of thoughts about success that, so …

5 Key Elements of User-Friendly Notifications

5 Key Elements of User Friendly Notifications

Have you ever paid attention to the number of notifications and alert messages you receive on a daily basis from various web services and apps? How many of those notifications do you actually care about? These questions are becoming more …

The Power of Microcopy in Web Design

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The power of microcopy in web design

“Copy” has turned into a buzzword. Have you noticed it? People are putting more and more importance onto the words you use on your website. They are trying to put value in copy and it’s a wonderful idea! Words are …