Playtesting and the Future of UX Research with Steve Bromley - Experience Designed Podcast, Ep8
Steve Bromley is a highly regarded figure in the user research community, renowned for his expertise in game user research and playtesting. He has authored numerous books aimed at developing and guiding researchers. In this session, we will delve into the distinctive aspects of conducting playtests, explore his insights gained from both the gaming and software development industries, and discuss the future of UX research.
Starting a new UX job or project can be overwhelming only if you don't come to it prepared with a more strategic mindset and tools. In this video, I'll share some of the frameworks and a 90-day checklist for anyone who wants to set themselves up for long-term success in UX research or product design.
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Episode 46: Great UX Microcopy & Content Design Examples
This week’s pick: Microcopy Inspirations - a collection of good to great UX microcopy, copy and general content design examples. I like this collection to get inspired for a specific category of copy use cases. For example, 404 pages, error messages, logins and many more. These type of collections are invaluable for any product, UI and UX designer.
Check it out here: https://www.microcopyinspirations.com/
Note: we're not affiliated with the tool makers. It's just a great UX tool you should know about.
In this new weekly UX design, user research and product design tools series I'll share some of the best picks I've encountered to date. You'll find out about the best apps, extensions, websites and other helpful tools.
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Episode 3: Create Icons from Scratch with Shapes
In this episode I'll show you how to use basic shape functionality in Sketch to craft awesome UI icons from scratch. You'll get to see my quick process to crafting a few different examples.
Sketch is a go-to app for UI, Product(UX/UI) and other graphical vector based editing to shape the user experience. With a lightning fast mockup capabilities, simplicity, prototyping and powerful collaboration tools, Sketch has everything you need to turn your ideas into incredible products. Join me for a zero to hero masterclass and learn how to design apps, UIs and use the tool to its fullest.
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Episode 48: Really Good Customer Email Examples for Content Designers
This week’s pick: Really Good Emails. This one's for the experience designers, marketing enthusiasts, content designers and anyone who is passionate about optimal customer experience among us. If you have ever worked on email conversions, updates and other inbox-communication methods you probably found yourself guessing what structure, content and message would be most appropriate? Well, this directory provides with hand-picked examples of some of the best examples for a specific use case. For example, if you are designing an onboarding UX/CX email - you'll find the best examples for that purpose. Check the tool here: https://reallygoodemails.com/
Note: we're not affiliated with the tool makers. It's just a great UX tool you should know about.
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App UI Previews and Device Mockups - Design Tool Tuesday, Ep8
In this new weekly UX design, user research and product design tools series I'll share some of the best picks I've encountered to date. You'll find out about the best apps, extensions, websites and other helpful tools.
This weeks pick: Mockuuups Studio. A desktop app and drag-and-drop tool for creating beautiful app previews and marketing materials. All you need to have ready is a UI or product design which you when can simply place in variety of different device and channel mockups. The tool allows to preview in real-time and export the composition of your choice.
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App for Fractal Artwork Creation - Design Tool Tuesday, ep5
In this new weekly UX design, user research and product design tools series I'll share some of the best picks I've encountered to date. You'll find out about the best apps, extensions, websites and other helpful tools.
This weeks pick: Dmesh. A legendary graphic and web design tool for making funky fractal mesh backgrounds and computer generated graphics. The app is super easy to use and has several options to manually modify the intensity, touchpoints and other settings. It also provides with ability to modify video snapshots for those fractal video background effects you might encounter in creative videos. It's a tool that I tend to use for some of UI header imagery generation with plenty of opacity. Try it out and let me know if you like it!
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Welcome to the new series on Axure RP 9 prototyping: Axure RP - Noob to Master. Axure is a muscle tool for high-fidelity prototypes and killer UX design.
Session #71: Interactive Image Zoom In & Out with Axure
In this session, I'll show you how to create an interactive image zoom in and out effect with Axure RP. Needless to say at some point you'll encounter a use case where your UX prototypes will need to be able to zoom maps, photos etc. In just a few minutes I'll show you how to make a fully functional zoom component. Additionally, you'll also learn how to limit the zoom out by photo dimensions and more.
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Episode 28: UX Design Book Reading List
This week’s pick: UX Design Book Reading List by yours truly. Yet again I'll share another resource from my personal arsenal. Over the past few years, I've been logging this reading list with over 40 titles (as of late 2019) to share with my junior and peer designers when they encounter a specific problem or just need a good UX, user research or marketing book to read.
Be sure to check the full list here, pick at least one book, read and most importantly apply it: http://blog.vaexperience.com/books-on-product-design-creativity-and-ux-ive-read-to-date/
Links mentioned in the video:
Lean vs Agile vs Design Thinking book review - https://youtu.be/OCL6RkUOShI
A Technique for Producing Ideas - https://youtu.be/0iUH1uLJBQo
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