Looking to communicate your design concepts more clearly? Struggling with draw a straight line let alone a wireframe sketch? Not to worry, we have created something just for you. Sketch out your concepts on a grid, write out your project feature notes and detail the scenario for that sketch. A variety of grid […]
Read moreWas doing your degree a waste of time? UX-related degrees you might already have
Completing a degree can be so hard. It’s been years of blood, sweat and tears in trying to finish your degree. Towards the end, you may have had a quarter mid-life crisis along with a few mental breakdowns since you never really had a passion for that degree. Having heard about UX design, it may […]
Read moreLooking to break into UX? Top 8 UX Design courses UX pros wish they had taken
Transitioning into the UX design industry from a different field can seem like a daunting task considering the amount of varied information one finds on the Internet. What should you know, what should you be able to do and should you go back to school to start a new degree/course? Obviously, getting some training is […]
Read moreHow to become a designer and get hired: Issue #1 Fantasy Interactive
[row] [/row] Youtube full interview. Thank you so much David for joining us. David if you could take us back to when you were still a student and tell us a little bit about where you grew up. What did you study? I started a long way from here. I started in Dublin, […]
Read moreIs UX design a good fit for you? 8 personality traits you must have.
People who succeed in a UX design role have two things in common. Firstly, they enjoy what they do. Secondly, their personality fits the work they do daily. Too many articles on how to get started in UX design, dive straight into the courses that must be taken and the skills that must be acquired. […]
Read moreCreating animated GIFs using Invision and Photoshop Part 2
The first part of this tutorial explained how to create an animated UI design for a mobile app using Invision and record the animation using ScreenFlow. The second part of this tutorial covers how to put the finishing touches on your presentation and the settings for exporting to a GIF using Photoshop. What we shall […]
Read moreCreating animated design GIFs using Invision and Photoshop Part1
In the tutorial series “How to create animated GIFs for UI design presentations” we looked at how firstly to create and export the animations from After Effects and save as GIF in Photoshop. This process is very time consuming but the results are really impressive. After Effects allows for unique, quality animations and greater creative […]
Read moreHow six senior designers began their career in UX and UI design
How does one start a career in UX design? How does one become a user interface designer? Here are some thoughts of six lead UX designers from Paypal, LinkedIn, EverNote, Box, Atlassian and Good Technology as to how they began their careers in UX and UI design.
Read moreHow to create animated GIFs for UI design presentations: Part 3 After Effects animations and transitions
What truly sets animated GIFs apart is the smooth transitions and animations between states, one can showcase. This enhances the digital experience for a user. A use case can be scripted or merely a simple mobile app turning on. The only drawback is the quality, length of animation and the size of file. In […]
Read moreHow to create animated GIFs for UI design presentations: Part 2
This is the second part in the series of creating those awesome cool, animated GIFs of UI designs. In the first part we had used Adobe After Effects to create two compositions. One for transitions and animations of a weather app. The other one for how we want to present it on a mobile phone […]
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