Tag: ux-tools

New Design Patterns For Products With AI Features

New design patterns for products with AI features

UX Design

I’m confident that these interactions will continue to improve, with some patterns becoming obsolete and new UX patterns emerging.

Edward Chechique
Apr 11, 2025 ⋅ 7 min read
Running A Cognitive Walkthrough For Usability Testing: Guide + Template

Running a cognitive walkthrough for usability testing: Guide + template

UX Design

Want to catch usability issues before real users do? A cognitive walkthrough helps you refine your product’s UX quickly — no expensive studies needed. Here’s your step-by-step guide.

Bart Krawczyk
Mar 6, 2025 ⋅ 3 min read
Storytelling Frameworks In UI: Hero’s Journey Vs. Pixar

Storytelling frameworks in UI: Hero’s Journey vs. Pixar

UX Design

Whether you’re mapping a user journey or refining content strategy, storytelling frameworks can help. Here’s how the Hero’s Journey and Pixar’s approach fit into UX design.

Daniel Schwarz
Mar 5, 2025 ⋅ 6 min read

Object-oriented UX (OOUX): A structured approach to UX design

UX Design

Object-Oriented UX (OOUX) is a powerful approach to UX design that prioritizes structure, clarity, and scalability.

Chidera Nwankwagu
Mar 3, 2025 ⋅ 7 min read
User Personas Common Mistakes And How To Avoid Them

User personas: Common mistakes and how to avoid them

UX Design

Poorly crafted user personas not only don’t help your UX process, they can even harm it. Think garbage in, garbage out.

Bart Krawczyk
Feb 27, 2025 ⋅ 4 min read
Code To Design: Switching Up Your UX Workflow

Code to design: Switching up your UX workflow

UX Design

What if designers worked with real UI components instead of static images? A code-to-design workflow makes handoffs seamless, reducing friction between designers and developers while speeding up production.

Oscar Jite-Orimiono
Feb 11, 2025 ⋅ 6 min read
Understanding The 5 UX Design Layer Types

Understanding the 5 UX design layer types

UX Design

Users see a product; designers see layers. The 5 UX design layers — strategy, scope, structure, skeleton, and surface — help build UIs step by step.

Shalitha Suranga
Dec 18, 2024 ⋅ 9 min read
Using A UX Audit To Spot And Solve Design Issues

Running a UX audit to spot and solve design issues

UX Design

Nobody wants their design to confuse users. Running a UX audit will uncover all the “oops” moments in your UI and help fix what’s broken and craft UX that “wow”s users.

David Hall
Dec 3, 2024 ⋅ 5 min read
Figma Vs. Adobe XD Which To Choose When

Figma vs. Adobe XD: Which to choose when?

UX Design

Adobe XD is Adobe’s version of Figma – but does it match up? This blog is an attempt at decoding the good and bad of both, and figuring out which one is best used for which use case.

Chidera Nwankwagu
Nov 22, 2024 ⋅ 4 min read
Click, Type, Find: Personal Favorite Search Bar Design Rules

Click, type, find: Personal favorite search bar design rules

UX Design

Search bars are more than icons and inputs — they can be a retention magnet or a churn trigger. Sharing my tried-and-tested search bar design principles in this blog!

Bart Krawczyk
Nov 19, 2024 ⋅ 4 min read
A Guide To Rebranding For UX Designers

A guide to rebranding for UX designers

UX Design

Rebranding isn’t just for the business — it’s an important playfield for UX designers too. In this blog, I share how you can drive a rebranding project effectively.

Angela Fabunan
Oct 18, 2024 ⋅ 8 min read

Using data visualization tools as a UX/UI designer

UX Design

Data visualization tools let you turn raw numbers into visuals — so you have some guidance when making design choices. I talk more on this in today’s blog.

Jenna Smith
Oct 16, 2024 ⋅ 4 min read