[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, […]
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Focus Lab are a close team of creative professionals based out of Savannah, Georgia. They are passionate about partnering with good people and organizations to provide exceptional custom solutions. Our skills are specific and fine-tuned. We are specialists, not generalists. We build identities and experiences to elevate and empower organizations. Awesome office setup at design […]
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 […]
Read moreHow to create animated GIFs for UI design presentations: Part 1
You may have seen really cool animated GIFs that design professionals are using to present UI design on Behance, Dribble and other design communities platforms and wondered how did they created them. What is fast becoming one of the best ways of illustrating gestures and animations in mobile apps, animated GIFs offer a little more […]
Read moreAxure vs Balsamiq prototyping
Axure is used for designing interactive prototypes for websites and mobile applications. Similarly Balsamiq is a rapid wireframing tool for designing web and app mockups. I use both and wanted to share in this brief article a comparison between the two applications using examples from a case study.
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