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. […]
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 […]
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. Must Read Related Posts Creating animated design GIFs […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. Must Read Related Posts UX/UI design brief […]
