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The Psychology of Color in Web Design

Web design needs to do several things at once. It must look good. It must make sure the navigation of the website is clear. It must hold an internet user’s attention for as long as possible. And it...

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7 Psychological Traps that Hold Web Designers Back

Let's talk about self-confidence and psychological misconceptions that may hold web designers and web professionals back from getting ahead in their career. When it comes to daily routine tasks most...

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How to Improve UX Design with A/B Testing

If you've kept up with design news the past 5-6 years then you should know about A/B testing. This is where two or more page designs are created and offered to a split percentage of visitors. Various...

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Psychology Of Color To Improve Site Conversion

Studying the psychology of color is crucial for maximizing your site's web design. Using the right colors can help put your customers in the frame of mind that compels them to take action. Color has...

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Tips for UI Design Colors and Color Matching Techniques

User interfaces are made first-and-foremost to fulfill a user experience. This can be achieved with very basic elements, but is often dressed up with colors and textures. The use of design colors for...

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How to Increase Website Engagement With a Story

What every website will have in common is the broad mission – website engagement. You want people to click the links, expand all the menus, and look through the tabs. At the same time, every website...

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Identifying Usability Problems with a Heuristic Evaluation

The word “heuristic” simply describes a process where someone can learn something for themselves. In this case heuristic techniques take on a slightly different meaning by defining practical...

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6 Principles for Timeless Web Design

How do you stay relevant when your audience always changes? Just like fashion, film, and food, web design and UI are subject to an ever-changing set of standards and expectations. While you might...

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Progress Bar Design: Examples and Open Source Code Snippets

Speed and efficiency are two major aspects of quality web and mobile interfaces. Extra time on page can be annoying and most people just want to get moving. This impatience can be abated with the use...

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Hero Image Design Tips For Natural-Looking Website Layouts

The concept of a hero image isn't new to web design, although the term was coined somewhat recently. These hero images are basically banners often placed in the background of a header behind some...

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Ultimate Guide To Usability Testing For Beginners

A growing topic for interface designers is user experience and usability. This area of expertise defines how easy an interface is for new users, and more specifically how easily new users can complete...

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Well-Designed Landing Page Examples Of UX Techniques

User experience defines every step of the user’s process and can be applied to every type of digital interface. The unique point of studying UX for landing page examples is to increase conversion...

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Magazine Mockup Design: Tips & Resources For Creative Page Spreads

Print work follows many of the same principles as UI design work. These two areas of design are closely related when it comes to typography and composition. Magazines are primarily a print product,...

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Examining Bad Logos: How to Avoid Logo Mistakes

Identity design is deeply ingrained in with psychology and marketing. To design a readable identity you need to understand what works and what doesn’t work. It’s not hard to find examples of bad logos...

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The Ultimate UX Research Cheatsheet For Mobile Apps

Mobile is rapidly changing with new techniques for native apps and responsive websites. Designers have to keep up with these changes and follow trends that work to give users the best interaction...

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Ultimate Guide To The User-Centered Design Process

The concept of user-centered design is nothing new to websites. User experience is a rapidly growing area of interface design and it’s becoming extremely popular among web and mobile app designers....

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Ultimate Guide To Accessible Responsive Web Design

Accessible websites are made to support all browser types and all users with disabilities. This is a big topic for the W3C and it’s growing in popularity each year. Designing for accessibility is...

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Understanding UX Strategy And How It Merges With Interface Design

There’s a bit of murkiness surrounding the concept of “user experience”. In one way it relates to digital interface design. But in another way it relates to the somewhat intangible behavior &...

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Top Ways to Apply Learnability to Your Homepage Design

Building an audience around your new site requires offering value. This could be great content, valuable assets, unique features, or some combination of all three. But every user also needs a way to...

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How To Design Text To Keep Visitors Engaged On Your Website

Digital typography is made for content consumption. The color, size, placement, and space surrounding text usually correlates with the content style. But in web design you have to consider how these...

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