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UX Career Advice

The Career Advice section is where you can find guidance on getting into the UX field through to advancing your UX career. My articles cover how to build a strong portfolio, ace interviews, and develop skills that make you stand out.

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UX Sketching: Whiteboard 101

In my experience, the best UX/UI designs result when teams work together to sketch out their ideas. They do this based on solid user research combined with a clear understanding of business needs. The resulting sketches help teams clarify their thinking “on paper”. They make abstract ideas more tangible, and enable teams to explore multiple design…

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How Being A Usability Tester Makes You A Better UX Designer

As UX Designers, our challenge is to help clients figure out out how to delight customers with an intentional, informed online user experience – one that works on any device and improves business results. It’s a great gig, but it’s also really hard. In my experience, the only way to confirm if a design is…

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How To Write Storyboards For Hero Banners

Most corporate websites have hero banners on them, which are usually visual animations used to draw attention to the home page. These components can be very effective or fall completely flat, depending on the strategy behind them. In this post I’ll show you how to write them from concept to finished piece, and provide you with a…

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Wireframe 101: Sketch First, Wireframe Later

What Are Wireframes? Wireframes represent a simple black and white, plain vanilla version of the proposed product. Each individual wireframe serves as a blueprint or schematic of a design template, and shows how navigation, content and images will all work together. What Are Wireframes Used For? Wireframes are great for visual communication, solving design problems…

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