Tag: AlexW

We like to imagine that our morals and ethics are set in granite, but the reality is they are much more fluid over a 24 period. Can you design for that?

UXD is process of building better, more pleasurable products for users. Psychology is the key to understanding their needs and wants.

Sketch is great for UI design. Atomic is great for prototyping. But can they combine seamlessly as a Sketch and Atomic.io UI tag team?

We're overwhelmed with UX advice. Ryan offers a few gems of UX wisdom that you probably won't read on the other blogs and resources sites. 

Research shows that looking at faces changes the way we think. Can you use this knowledge to trigger empathy in your users?

FInding, tagging and removing bugs may not be glamorous but it's a product development phase. Konrad has a toolset for painless troubleshooting of bug.

Today we've put together a list of 8 impressive and distinctive headline fonts designed to give your layouts an extra touch of star power. Enjoy.

As 'web people', we talk a lot about 'capturing customers', but not so much about what to do with them when we succeed. We can learn a lot from airlines.

The Trolley Problem is one of the great 'thought experiments' in ethics. But it's a thought experiment that's about to play out in the real world.

Designers and developers need to work closely to get the best out of each other. Sympli, the latest attempt to make a seamless collaboration tool .  

'Push button' image filters have developed a bad reputation with design professionals. But perhaps a new image filter called Prisma can change their minds.

App development needs great design but there is a disconnect between design and code. Now Paintcode turns Sketch into an iOS app UI development tool.

Saad explains how white space, a lack of content, can make a design more effective.

We'd all played with computers for years but SitePoint's Hack Day gave us a chance to make electronics with our first IoT project.

Designing for IoT – the Internet of Things – offers great opportunities, but also a new range of challenges. Charles Costa walks you though the big 4. 

Google fonts revolutionized web fonts by bringing them to the world. They've just released the services' biggest overhauls since 2010. But is it better?

They are the product of comic books and newspaper 'funny pages' but Aja is here to tell why the speech bubble is set to rule our future UIs.

Pantone 448C – a dark olive-brown – is used on Australian cigarette packaging because it is visually unappealing. But context changes how we see color.

Store design isn't accidental. Hundred of years of experience teaches many UX lessons. Daniel explains how you can apply in the digital world.

Think you know Flickr? Did you know they store a vast reservoir of copyright free photos imagery from the world's great libraries, museums, & archives?

Conversational UIs are becoming more and more common but designing them requires a whole new skillset – more scriptwriter than graphic designer.

Read Conversational UIs, R2-D2 and Avoiding the Uncanny Valley and learn with SitePoint. Our web development and design tutorials, courses, and books will teach you HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Python, and more.

SVG is powerful, but finding a place to put your image is harder than it should be. Here's a scalable, reliable, free SVG image hosting method.

Design isn't something you only do at your desk. Gabrielle has 9 apps to help designers get things done on their iPhone.

Some users come to us via the web – others via an app. How does the onboarding UX differ? Aja looks at how Mint and Expensify answer that question.

Design is a series of decisions on what is most important – and what isn't. Wes looks at how to focus your users by using with prioritized navigation. 

Codepen has become a vast repository of some of the best in front-end UI thinking. Sarah has put together a short list of handy snippets from Codepen.io

It doesn't matter how crisp your SVG text is if it's too small to be read. Responsive SVG lets you prioritize the important parts of you graphic.

Designers are part of an ever-growing team in 2016 and collaboration is key. Theo looks at the best Slack apps for designers.

Sketch has become the key tool for so many Front-end designers that it's hard to ignore. Daniel gets you up-to-speed with the UI basic in under 5 minutes.