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We are living in a world that is full of touch devices and infinite scrolling websites. Therefore, as a designer, it is inevitable for him/her to have a clear understanding of interaction design before setting out to create fluid, convenient and accessible user experiences, because most websites and applications are interactive today to avoid making bad interaction designs. Author:  Julie The concept of  interaction design  was created in 1980s. Interaction designers usually focus on user-centered design, based on the analysis and research of real users’ goals and demands. Interaction designers always make design from users’ perspective, but at the same time they try to balance the users’ needs with business goals & technological capabilities. However, many interaction designers ignore these key points, finally they make something terrible. In order to give a better understanding of interaction design, I would like to share with you about what kind of in...

Finding the UX and UI design philosophy from fashion designers? Yes, you’ve opened a little bit twee article. Many people will think that UI, UX and the fashion industry don’t have much in common, especially the user experience, but being two fields that need communicate a lot with their customers, the point where they generate their designs are similar. This type of relationship can offer us some unexpected information. 1. What is the design philosophy? Design philosophy is the superficial demonstration of designers’ understandings to the world that is around them, this type of understandings can come out during the process of design in which designers try to find the result. This philosophy can be received from the experience of the ancestors and also from the obtained conclusions based from the knowledge in person to this rapidly changing world. Especially as UX and UI are fruits of the development of technologies, there are more requirements that they should adapt faster...

User Journey and User Flow are two terms frequently mentioned in the product development process, they refer to two tools created to improve the product user experience. However, the differences between these two can easily mislead designers: some people think they are the same There is also opinion that the range covered by User Journey is wider than that of User Flow. Yes, they do have something in common, but they also differ from each other in many ways. In this article, I will make a comparison of “User Journey Vs User Flow “to help you understand better. 1. What is a User Journey? What is a User Flow? First let’s look at the definitions of the two terms: a. User Journey: It can also be called Customer Journey, it refers to the scenarios in which the user interacts with the product, and normally the scenarios consist of between 4 and 12 steps. Its function is mainly to assume and demonstrate the current and possible way in which the user can interact with the prod...

With the development of mobile internet services, the increasing importance of user experience design   has emerged. UX design also decides whether a product is successful or not. But how many UX design requirements? So, today let’s talk about the four fundamentals of UX design need to be noticed for UX designers. An article from my team mate:  Julie 1.Don’t rush to start When a UX designer starts a new design project, he always can’t wait to design what they’ve thought. However,direct design without any plan is not a wise step. Before your design,you have to do correct positioning of the product that your company is going to launch, and you’re also supposed to do many researches on your  target users  by asking some questions highly related to your product and focusing on what problems your design needs to resolve. That is one of the most important fundamentals of UX design. In other words, it is inevitable for you to collect a large numb...

Last Friday I went to visit one of my friends, Sue, the HR in a famous software company. After a cup of coffee she talked with me on interesting things happened during the  UX designer  recruitment which just finished in her company. My friend, who has become acquainted with so many excellent UX designers in the past years, asks every candidate she interviews “why do you think you’re qualified for a user experience designer?”, a question she considered very important. Most of the candidates answered that they had a good mastery of some wireframing tools like Axure and  Mockplus , “a drop in the bucket”, Sue said. Indeed, one needs to develop comprehensive abilities including interaction design, visual design, information architecture, human-computer interaction, etc. However, these skills are, in fact, not the most important criterion when selecting UX designer. Sue told me she has learned a lot from those excellent  user experience designers . Following a...