Tag: innovation
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Top 10 UX Design Tips for Startups: Building Irresistible Products
By knowing your users, designing and testing value propositions, and organizing your efforts around a well-crafted UX Strategy, you can make sure your design activities are moving the needle on key startup KPIs. Here are ten essential tips to help startups create irresistible products through effective UX Design. 1. Establish a Strong Value Proposition A…
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The Quick UX Accessibility Checklist
Accessibility isn’t just about making sure people with disabilities can use your product. It benefits everyone, including users without disabilities. It helps us to use apps better when we’re on the move, navigating one-handed, in low-light areas or when we can’t have sound turned on. In fact, subtitled Youtube videos increase view time by more…
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Empathy Mapping In UX Design: The Quick Start Guide
An empathy map is a quick and inexpensive way to capture valuable user insights into an easy-to-digest visual. They’re a great first step before Personas, and a good foundation for Journey Maps. In this article, we’ll share some tips and best practices for creating effective empathy maps. What is Empathy Mapping? Empathy mapping is a…
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Do UX Designers Need To Code? No, Here’s A Better Idea
Knowing how to code isn’t essential for a UX Designer. But working effectively with developers does require knowledge of how things are built. In this article, we’ll share some terminology and programming ideas to help you work more efficiently with developers and make better design decisions. Understanding Coding Can Help You to Communicate With Developers…
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How To Get Better At UX Strategy: 14 Practical Tips
Before we get started, I want to give you a solid, actionable takeaway, that I know will level up your understanding of strategy and set you in the right direction. So before you go any further, have a read of the first section and take a few minutes to answer the questions. What’s the One…
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15 Types Of User Interface: A Quick Overview
We all have a yearning for our environments to be more natural. But since the rise of the world wide web, our lives have been increasingly spent staring at screens. How can we continue our technological revolution, but do so in a way that supports our mental health and well-being? That’s the exact question that’s…
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8 Product Design Principles For Better Work And Collaboration
Solid product design principles help us navigate the messy world of discovery and make good decisions in the face of uncertainty. Some principles act as decision-making criteria, others help us work better together, and some help us to evaluate designs and craft better solutions. This article will share 14 invaluable principles for better work and…
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How to Create a Design Strategy: A Simple Framework
If you’re in product development, and you feel like you’re working in a feature factory… It could be because your team lacks a strategy. A lack of strategy makes it difficult to consistently create value. It makes it hard for team members to make decisions because they aren’t clear on how their choices will impact…
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How to Empathize in Design Thinking: Practical Tools and Techniques
Empathy is the ability to feel what another person is feeling. It’s useful in the Design Thinking process as it allows us to design experiences that closely align with actual users’ wants and needs. This article will explore the concept of empathizing in design thinking and how this process can be used to create better…
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IDEO’s Desirability, Viability, Feasibility Framework: A Practical Guide
The DVF framework is a product prioritization method that helps teams to evaluate three key aspects of a successful product: desirability, viability and feasibility. This article explores how to use IDEO’s DVF framework to create an innovative design solution from idea all the way through final execution and testing, by utilizing the three key elements…
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Designing for Social Change: A Quick Guide
Designers have the unique power to create solutions, drive progress and empower people through their designs. By utilizing a design-thinking approach to social change, they can develop strategies that benefit communities in meaningful ways over time. This enables individuals within those societies to take responsibility for creating positive societal shifts on their own terms –…
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Designing for Social Good: How Designers Can Make a Difference
Designing for social good uses design thinking skills and principles to create a positive social impact on cultural, community, and environmental issues that benefit the greater good. Designing for Social Good: How Designers Can Make a Difference By combining creativity and their knowledge of design principles, designers have the power to create meaningful solutions for…