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Small Task of Great Importance Form validation design is as tricky as a hyperactive squirrel. It’s a tiny thing that can steal your lunch (both a squirrel and dodgy form validation). No matter how boring it is for us designers – we need to follow certain rules to make the form validation our strength rather

Guest post by Georgina McNiff How to get started with your UX freelancing: Be that much better. There are many reasons why freelance work is appealing for UX designers: the ability to choose your own clients, to be your own boss, and the freedom to be able to work from home in your pajamas…sometimes. So

Folks organizing Convey UX Conference created a survey aiming at listing the tools most valued by UX Professionals. I’m extremely proud to say, that UXPin was chosen The Most Valued UX Tool in the Wireframing Category. Hurray! We got fewer votes than our respected competitors from Axure, Balsamiq and Omnigraffle (which is perfectly reasonable –

Click to see the full size it doesn’t get prettier, but certainly gets more readable. The importance of copywriting in User Experience Design Importance of copywriting in User Experience Design should never be underestimated. Whether you sell books, encourage people to read your blog, or try to persuade visitors to sign up to a b2b

Jump high and catch the growth! Photo Credit: Emery_Way via Compfight cc Hack the Growth! Growth Hacking in UXPin In his famous blog post Startup = Growth, Paul Graham, founder of Y Combinator, said: “A startup is a company designed to grow fast.”. Planing and executing a growth strategy is the straight way to business

Photo Credit: pelican via Compfight cc Product Manager vs. UX Designer I always advocate in favor of broad definition of User Experience Design practice. The one that contains not only UI design, but whole set of activities that lead to creation of a great product. Here’s the definition from my recent ebook UX Design for

Not so long ago (though in pre-UXPin times), I was working as UX Manager. That’s a great position to be. Taking care of interfaces intertwined with taking care of the team of talented designers. I was constantly thinking about skills great UX designers possess and ways of enhancing these skills among my people. Let me

Photo Credit: star5112 via Compfight cc Cloud App working, even if you’re offline Imagine this super scary situation: You’re working in you favorite cloud app (let say it’s a wireframing app). Suddenly…. BAM, you lost your Internet connection. The app stopped working and most probably you lost your data. That’s scary, right? We thought so.

Lean UX vs. Agile UX – in the kingdom of buzz words and acronyms User Experience Design world is a well established kingdom of acronyms and buzz words. UX, IxD, IA, UCD, CX, agile UX, lean UX, guerrilla research, strategic UX, Emotional design… we’re swimming in the sea of strange words risking catastrophe of miscommunication

2012 meant a huge increase in the number of customers for us, so it was by all means a very successful UXPin year! But with success comes responsibility*. Our customers have a wide range of needs and send more feedback than ever before (thank you!). However, we in the UXPin team hasn’t had the manpower

We’re dead serious about our plans of revolutionizing User Experience Design and to make it happen we need the best people to work with us. This month two great, experienced, advisors joined our Advisory Board. Big applause and warm welcome for Irene and Hiten! Irene Au – is a VP of Product and User Experience

UXPin is a revolution. We want to popularize responsible* approach to UX Design and empower web&mobile product teams with extraordinary force of dedicated UX tools. This is so exciting! Happily, you share this excitement with us. In just six months UXPin grew 500%! Thank you! UX Design App accelerates growth thanks to Lean Startup As

The growth of the User Experience Design field is breathtaking but well deserved. Thanks to UX Designers all over the world, the quality of products has increased dramatically. Design really does matter now. It’s a user-centric world in which there’s not only Apple on the scene anymore. Samsung gizmos look better than ever. Google has

We’re here to provide the value for the UX community! We believe – that’s the right thing to do and… we’re just starting. Below you’ll find first free course that we’ve created with DesignModo. The basic idea behind the series was to provide: solid (101 style) introduction to User Experience for beginners knoweldge refreshment for

Philosophy of Design The Design industry is a kingdom of philosophers. Our meta discussions are endless. We constantly try to define and re-define our own field. Decisive response to environmental change (like Agile and Lean) takes us literally years. And I love it. Meta discussions show that we deeply care about our jobs and give