Recently, we see a growing interest to game usability from both major developers and startups. How to find experienced designers? Where to learn the basics? Can an ex-game designer become a UX developer? Looking through the FAQ from UX newbies, we suggest some tips to success in this challenging career path.
Artisto: How Neural Networks Help Creating Video Masterpieces
Contemporary art on a smartphone
Smartphones are used to capture everyday moments and emotions, almost no preparations need to be done compared to the professional shots. Although the result might turn out disappointing – while wishing for a movie-like shot, you get “like always” one.
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Simple Hacks for Using myMail More Efficiently
myMail is the preferred email app of millions of users due to its simple design and user-friendly qualities. In fact, it became the leading email account management app for both iOS and Android within only a few months of its official launch, and the app still continues to garner new users even today.
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Millennial History of Map Features
Maps were created through the efforts of countless people through six thousand years. Cartography preceded writing. Methods of mapping the land and sea surface evolved together with the human civilization, from the first cave paintings to digital online and offline maps with ethnographic, economic, and social data.
Russian AI Cup 2016 Participants to Code Ingame-Strategies for MOBA Games
In the last days of autumn Russian AI Cup is steaming forward to the bright future full of intelligent robots. In case you haven’t heard about the Cup – It is the annual championship on programming of an artificial intelligence organized by Mail.Ru Group and My.com.
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How to Find What You Need In Your Mailbox Quick and Easy
We continue to share insights on default and alternative mobile mail clients. Today, we talk mail search systems – how they work, why it is often hard to find the message you need, and what a perfect email search should be able to do – using myMail as an example.
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What Do Angelina Jolie and Skyforge Have In Common: Sound Production Team Shares Behind-the-scene Stories
The secret is out! Today, we’ve decided to give you a peek into the work of the sound production team responsible for the sound design of Allods Online, Skyforge, Cloud Pirates and Armored Warfare. In this article, we’ll tell you all about who speaks for the Elves, screams for the Orcs, and how to bring together all that sound diversity together. Here we go!
MAPS.ME: the Perfect Places for Stargazing
You may have become obsessed with a new form of travel entertainment or perhaps you have seriously decided to go alien hunting. Either way, it’s official – you have a telescope. There are plenty of reasons to become an astrotourist as well as a number of ways to satisfy your desire to observe the sky.
MAPS.ME: Bicycle Navigation, Best Cycling Routes
It is common joke that in some places winter lasts for 9 months. Although even that cannot put people off cycling, especially those who use bicycles for commuting rather than merely sports. Cyclists keeping the right lane or a special bike lane may now equally share the road with the cars.
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Rules for Creating Great UI Design in Mobile Games
What is the secret of designing mobile games? Everything a player can possibly need should be placed in one window: primary and secondary information, a nice header, tracery, and some art. The problem is that you will run out of the screen space with just the first thing.
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