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Have you ever wondered why do you struggle in finding sign out button in most of the apps? Let me tell you why do apps want their users to struggle for sign out. This is very interesting to know that designers buried the sign out intentionally in some corner of the app. This is called ‘Designed Inconvenience’. No designer would want users to sign out…

When a user lands on a product he leans to search for possible actions as soon as possible. Most of the crucial actions are defined in the form of buttons. We see a lot buttons with different shapes, color and texture. But how can I define best design system for buttons? Buttons always have some text over it to guide user more effectively. But how…

During my all years I have always been confused about being consistent in designs and being creative at the same time. It has been a very troubling phenomena for me during these years. But I find a way to break it down with some rules. But first of all let us understand what is the meaning of Consistency and Creativity. Consistency — a logical coherence…

The term IxD is very much used by designers to complement their designs and sell stuff. It is a big responsibility for designers to understand that IxD is not about making application beautiful on the other hand it has power to make application user centric. It is a very big factor for making great user experience. IxD is concerned with how user engages with your…

I love creating interfaces which talk to the users. Today is a world of smart users and they are very busy in their lives as well so there is a very small time they have for interacting with your product or interface. I call them impatient users. A lot of people fall in this category today. For instance… I go to a shopping store to…

These days designing is not about just making a bunch of mockups and taking them to clients to get reviews. It has evolved a lot during the last decade. Now a lot of thoughts and logics play a valuable role in this field. How do designers work today — A lot of them make good UI mocks with full functions, even crafting micro-interactions and different…

These days we see a lot of websites with interactive elements like floating buttons, segment tabs and navigations. But I wonder how designers illustrate interactions for a particular component! How do they decide on working of elements! How do they design element’s response and its different states? In order to crack it out I adduce a very simple logic of creating element’s interactions. Everything is…

Today everybody is talking about user experience and user-friendly apps. I was too muddled about the purpose and the exact meaning of UX. I tax my brains and sit down with my wife asking the most desirable thing she wants when she is up to buy a lip shade. She is excited, to ‘I want it to be useful, usable and delightful.’ WOW! It’s very…

UX design strategy is very much based on simple techniques which helps in logical thinking. Applications do best when put to logical tests in every single stage of research.

Human evolution ages approx 2000 years or maybe more, on contrary to modern-day computers which is talk of a few decades though the urge to find a machine to do daily calculations exists as equals to human evolution. The evolution of computers started with “First Computer” invented by Charles Babbage during early 19th Century, then First Analog Computer by Sir William Thomson in 1872, Then…