UX writing is an essential part of UX design, which plays a huge role in providing qualitative user experience. The job of a UX writer is to compose texts for a digital product, which can be of two types: microcopy (labels, buttons, notifications and other small notes) and macrocopy (larger texts like written content on pages, instructions, information sheets). UX writing helps users easily navigate through the product, perform various tasks and get all the necessary information.
Game economy design of Premium games through the example of a 4X strategy on PC
How to design an economy for your game? The answer to this question might require a series of lectures or articles. The fundamental difference in the approach is based, first of all, on monetization model: F2P or B2P. The second thing that defines the approach to developing an economy system is game genre. This article reviews the case of designing the game economy for a B2P (premium) game, which doesn’t involve earning on microtransactions.
UX Designer Job Interview: 10 questions to answer, 5 questions to ask
No matter how many degrees you have or how high your experience level is, your recruiters need to evaluate your knowledge of UX design as a whole. But keep in mind that a job interview is not an exam, so here you are expected not to recite the textbook definitions learned by heart, but rather share your personal understanding of UX and your role as a designer in general. Consider talking about how you define UX, what creates value in the design, what are the necessary parts of a UX design process, what are the current trends in UX. You might also be asked to explain the difference between UI and UX to see how you understand the role of each in the development process.
React + Three.js. Creating your own 3D shooter. Part 1
Hello, dear users of the IT world!
In the era of active development of web technologies and interactive applications, 3D-graphics is becoming more and more relevant and in demand. But how to create a 3D application without losing the advantages of web development? In this article, we will look at how to combine the power of Three.js with the flexibility of React to create your own game right in the browser.
This article will introduce you to the React Three Fiber library and teach you how to create interactive 3D games.
How to conduct UX brainstorming sessions effectively: tips and methods that work
Brainstorming is a popular working method which is commonly used by UX design teams. It involves a group of designers meeting (whether offline or via video call) and generating as many ideas as possible to find the best solution to a specific problem or come up with creative design ideas. Brainstorming sessions are usually held at the start of a UX project so that designers could use the ideas they think are the best later in the process of product creation. These sessions can vary in duration and form depending on which problems need to be solved, how many people participate and how many ideas need to be generated.
Typography in UI/UX Design
This article is about how to properly work with typography when developing websites and interfaces. In my work with Junior and Middle designers I often come across the fact that guys make very simple mistakes when working with text. And today I will try to show by examples how not to make these mistakes.
Main topics:
Font as a tool
Choosing a font
Contrast
Accentuation and typesetting
Line length
Vertical rhythm
Caps and Axes
My top Cyrillic fonts
Modular grids in UX designer's work
Most novice web designers at the beginning of their journey still in the courses hear such a concept as modular grid, and wonder what it is and how to properly customize and use this tool.
From personal experience, I know that in many courses with titles "web designer from zero to pro" or " IU / UX designer in a month" this topic is either skipped, or give instructions, where they say everywhere to use a grid of 12 columns with margins of 80 to 100 pixels. And, as a result, it turns out that after taking these gore courses, a person sees beautiful works, thinks to repeat them, but the grid does not work, and the student, simply, does the work without a grid and completely forgets about it.
That's why I want to help beginners to understand this really voluminous issue.
Technical Game Design. Configs, balance and content in the example of PC strategy
One of the common tasks that both beginners and experienced game designers face is describing a large amount of content to pass its parameters to the engine. This is not an easy task, given that it is very difficult to find materials on the technical aspects of game design. Well, let’s figure out how to transfer data to the engine.
An introduction to the world of AI for designers
Every day a new neural network appears and every day more opportunities are opened to designers to simplify their workflow. Someone fundamentally refuses to use them, because “there is no life in machinex and technologies”, and someone is only happy to find a way to reduce the amount of work. Personally, I belong to the second type and want to share the most detailed gait on neurons I have acquired lately.
SwiftUI & ChatGPT. The world is changing. Again
Everything that follows from this point forward input prompts, followed by ChatCGP’s responses, complete with sample code in Swift.
> Hey ChatGPT, can you make a SwiftUI registration form with name, address and city fields?
How to improve user experience with interfaces
How I hate it when the interface takes a lot of time, but it could be different…
Best digital marketing agencies in Vancouver 2023
This year we conducted a survey of 78 purchasing managers from Forbes Global 2000 companies based in Vancouver, BC. Last year, Covid restrictions were eased, agency employees partially returned to their offices. This year has become a real challenge for agencies' CEOs, they had to find compromises with employees who did not want to return to the office, and at the same time manage projects at the same efficient level. Clutch is not the platform market can trust anymore because of the paid placements (sponsors and featured) that can cover up to 50 first positions in some cases. So we asked procurement managers in Vancouver to rate their digital marketing agencies from 0 to 10 based on the following criteria:
Building set for embedded developers
In this article I will talk about my attempt to create flexible, compact and beautiful modular prototyping framework
Everything You Should Know in Indian Premier League (IPL) 2023
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Cricket in India is more than just a game and for most of it is a matter of pride and unity. As we all have grown up playing cricket and everyone knows all about its rules and techniques that are quite interesting. Over the last few years, the Indian premier league is the latest and most renowned version of cricket that has 20 overs. Within a short span of time, it has become one of the best sports traditions in India.
Day by day the fanbase of IPL is increasing and there are many IPL live streaming cricket apps, where you can enjoy IPL matches.
In this article, we will count everything you should know about IPL 2023.
IPL 2023
The IPL is a professional T20 cricket league in India that was first begun in 2007 by the Board of control for cricket in India, and in 2023, it will be the 16th season of the premier league. Basically, it is contested by ten teams and annually it is held in summer across India between March to May.
So, here is the team of IPL 2023.
IPL 2023 Teams
Here is the list of the total teams of IPL 2023 and its players.
Main Challenges and Mistakes in Creating Your Design System
Design system creation and integration is a challenging and rather tedious task. It can simply the development process or make it even harder. Anton Polyakov, Project Management Director for Innotech’s Mobile Development Department shares his team’s experience to demonstrate the unforeseen challenges they encountered.
InvokeAI 2.2: UI Outpainting, Embedding Management and more
InvokeAI 2.2 is now available to everyone. This update brings in exciting features, like UI Outpainting, Embedding Management and more. See highlighted updates below, or the full release notes for everything included in the release.
Startup story — how we pivoted mobile apps and business from «beauty Uber» to «beauty coworking»
Hi everyone! My name is Dmitrii Konstantinov and this is a personal story of experience and growth in a cozy startup. How we made a business pivot and adapted the server and mobile apps for it. What challenges did we face and how did we solve them.
How we designed the user interface for an enterprise analytical system
In 2021, we were contacted by an industrial plant that was faced with the need to create a system for analyzing processes in its production. The enterprise team studied ready-made solutions, but none of the analytics system designs fully covered the required functionality. So they turned to us with a request to develop their own analytical system that would collect data from all machines and allow it to be analyzed to see bottlenecks in production. For this project, we created a data-driven UI/UX design and also developed a web-based interface for the equipment monitoring system.
I trained a neural network on my drawings and give the model for free (and teach you to create your own)
Great for seamless patterns, abstract drawings, and watercolor-styled images. How to use it and train a neural network on your own pictures?
Download the model here: https://huggingface.co/netsvetaev/netsvetaev-free
«Look what I have!» — how we made the feature of screen sharing in the mobile video conferencing app
How we listened to the needs of our customers and implemented the feature with the maximum capabilities of the iOS and Android platforms. Then we looked into analytics, added onboarding, and usage grew. At the end of the article there are some cool conclusions and insights. Developing a video conferencing mobile app is fun!