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Know techniques for communicating clearly through design. Written by UX designer Jessica Lowry.

Good UIs take care of usability, but great ones tell a story. Visual storytelling is one of the most effective ways to create an emotional connection with your user, and the website is a perfect medium for this — the problem is that most designers aren’t trained in storytelling. The newest edition to our free

Learn to create a mobile off-canvas navigation menu that flies in with a bit of style and grace.

There’s reading about UX/UI technique, and there’s putting it into practice. As part of our initiative to help designers learn — really learn — we’re creating a series of Design Challenges. From basic visual skills to advanced interactions, each Challenge will test your ability to solve design problems in creative ways. And we’re going to kick

The design industry is more than a business. Sometimes we give to good causes that help improve our communities at large. We’re partnering with a nonprofit to improve donations on their website — and we need your help to make it happen. Designers are encouraged to lend their prototyping skills to help Silicon Valley De-Bug,

Iterating through design doesn’t stop with prototypes. Many people find the ability to share PNGs, PDFs and HTML/CSS handy to have. In this tutorial we’ll explain how to export a UXPin prototype.

Visualizing data comes up more and more in my work as a UX Designer. Data can be visually striking, but it needs a language and story to follow in order to be effective. Over the years, the art of storytelling has become the structure I use as the foundation of my designs. Every good story

Designers from all over the world are gathering in Amsterdam this winter for three days of talks, workshops, and networking, all culminating in a massive cocktail party in one of the city’s historic church venues. Awwwards has been a partner of ours for years, and their conference is one of our favorites in web design.

Working as a UX designer in the enterprise world can be challenging, but the experience can also be fun and rewarding. If you enjoy solving complex problems and function well in an environment with well-defined boundaries, enterprise UX could be right up your alley. Having worked on a design team in a large corporation for

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Traditionally, there’s been a divide between designers and engineers who are separated by either a wall or floors. It’s created a tension where both sides are constantly infuriated with one another. Designers feel that developers don’t adhere to what they designed and the developers think designers don’t understand that some things just can’t be implemented.

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Photo credit: Square Cash One of the biggest trends of the 2010s is still evolving today. Flat design, which started to gain momentum in 2013, is still currently one of the most used – and talked about – techniques in web design. But how has it sustained itself for so long? What is it about

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