Best job search sites for UX/UI design jobs
There is no guarantee how your next job turns out, but the interview process can be optimized for a better experience. This better experience starts with looking further than the general job portals like Indeed, Monster, Monday and Reed. The main
Effective job search to get your first or next UX/UI job – Step 1 – setting up the opportunities
Job searching is a painstaking process. The amount of job descriptions a candidate has to filter through to find a suitable role takes hours out of the day and only after that do the interview processes start. And it’s not
Pitching design interactively – the options to present the design on multiple devices
I've looked into what are my options for live design presentation on multiple devices. Why did I need that? Well, I did because my clients want a 360 degree overview on how the product would look like on their customers'
Ten of the most common approaches that alienate online visitors – the first five
What very few people admits openly when visiting a webpage is 'I don't trust them.' This is a natural and healthy reaction to any new page, since I have no idea who, and with what intentions stands behind it. During the first encounter the visceral level of the human judgmental system has only one question: ‘Solution or rip-off?’ Those website that fail to provide a reassuring answer fail at this very first stage. Not much point in fiddling with colours and text after that.
Practical analysis of the ‘slow and painstaking’ work behind the ‘fast and easy’ interfaces
At some time in their career, every interface designer get to the point of trying to create one of those 'fast and easy' interfaces that most of their companies are already advertising. The design reality is that what is fast and easy on the visitors' side is slow and painstaking on the designers’ side.
The technical hurdles of creating proper responsive preview
Creating responsive preview is all about seeing upfront what the clients would see when they check the otherwise responsively designed product on their own devices. The aim is to get as close as possible to the real life testing without
Merchantability – The correlation between the design and the achievable business position in the digital commodity market
... continue of the Marketability – The correlation between the design and the achievable business position in the digital commodity market Going from free to a product for purchase is a big leap. None of the below price ranges have such a big difference between them. To reach this perceptual stage on the users’ side, the core workflow of the product has to be already fully functional and optimized for the target group's pre-concept of a working solution.
Marketability – The correlation between the design and the achievable business position in the digital commodity market
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Under Marketability
There are two distinguishable level under below the first milestone, the marketability. These products are not recognised by the visitors because there is no or too little overlap with their model. The main reasons for that is usually neglecting the industry standards and traditional associations or heuristics users come with.
The correlation between product design and the achievable business position in the digital commodity market
The following diagram was made when I was consulting a baffled start-up about the general refurbishment of their product. Quite soon I got to the point where I needed to present the fact that their extended demoing and sales efforts wouldn’t produce any results due to the poor condition of the product. The problem was that the company hadn’t considered the quality of the interface (product design) as a reason behind the low sales and high churn rate. For a human-computer interaction designer, this was a shocking revelation, since the interface is that very touchpoint where visitors meets the features needs to be sold. I pulled together all of my interface design and digital strategy experience and created a ‘staircase’ diagram to mirror back the visitors’ value-judgment systems and present the process of how a product get positioned in their heads and eventually on the market.