UX Techniques

Mix and match these UX techniques to create a UX process best suited to the project at hand. We’ll be updating this page regularly with additional content, links and tutorials about how to apply these techniques.

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Logo Design and Tagline Competition for India Post Payments Bank

With over 1.54L branches across the country, India Post enjoys the love and trust of millions of Indians. The objective of India Post Payments Bank (IPPB) is to provide affordable and useful banking services to people who don’t just have limited access to banks, but might never have banked before. This is true financial inclusion. With a network spanning across every corner of the country, the postal service will now deliver prosperity to rural India as well as semi urban towns.

We invite you to design the visual identity of India Post Payments Bank (IPPB).

4 forgotten principles of usability testing

Over the years, I’ve sat through dozens of usability tests run by design agencies. Clients have asked me to oversee the tests to make sure that the agency really puts their design through its paces. This is a good thing as it shows that usability testing is now becoming a mainstream activity in the design community. But many of the usability tests I’ve sat through have been so poorly designed that it’s difficult to draw any meaningful conclusions from them. No wonder that Fast Company mistakenly believe that user centred design doesn’t work.

THE IDEA DESIGN WORKFLOW

As designers, we are constantly experimenting with tools and processes in an attempt to find the one that works best. After a great deal of experimentation, I’ve discovered the perfect design workflow, and I’m going to share it with you now. Design is a process and the process I’m going to share is the one I’ve used on all my projects to build habit-forming products that people love.

Hamburgerless. On creative mobile navigation.

An Update on the Hamburger Menu ‣ Basement Menus and Breaking the “Rules” of App Design ‣ Hamburgers & Basements: Why Not to Use Left Nav Flyouts ‣ Hamburger icon: How these three lines mystify most people ‣ Mobile App UX Principles: Improving User Experience and Optimising Conversion ‣ Mobile Navigation ‣

Daily UX Crash Course: 3 of 31

UX is a process, and these lessons roughly follow that process, but there are 5 things you should always keep in mind, throughout the process:

The 5 Main Ingredients of UX:
Psychology, Usability, Design, Copywriting & Analysis.

DESIGN SHACK

Flat 2.0 is easier to use because it combines the best of flat design with additional user interface cues to help you create website design that’s beautiful and functional. It’s also highly adaptable and works with almost any concept. Unlike some of the purest flat designed websites, Flat 2.0 combines elements of flat with subtle additions to enhance user-friendliness. Let’s take a look at a few examples!

16 Great UX Conversations From Quora

Since UX is such an expansive, ever-changing field and discipline it can be difficult to know where to start if you’re a beginner, or how to take the next step in advancing your craft if you’re a professional. Well no need to worry, that is what we are here for! Dt went out and scoured the internet to cultivate this list of great UX-themed conversations on Quora. There is something for everyone in the topics below-whether you’re just getting started or you want to advance your skills.