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Collaboration Tips For Your Web Design Team
Over the past few years, we in the web and product design industry have benefited from improvements in cross-department collaboration between strategists, designers, and developers. This post will focus on how these collaboration techniques can be used to improve communication and efficiency within a single department: design.
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Why You Need Good UX No Matter the Size of Your Business
If you've been researching web shops lately, its likely you've come across the term User Experience" (UX), and a lengthy list of digital agencies ready to sell it to you as a service. As with any new term in tech you may have wondered, 'Is this just another buzzword conceived to upsell the same old thing?' or 'Does my business really need it?'
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Is YO the End of Loneliness?
This past weekend, over pizza and pitchers at the Austin Beer Garden Brewing Company, some friends convinced me to download Yo. Yo is an app that allows you to send and receive Yos. Yos are like text messages that always say one thing: Yo. The app can do nothing else -- you either send a Yo or you don't -- and the only reason anyone knows it exists is that the company raised $1 million dollars in seed funding. So I downloaded the app. I started Yo'ing.
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5 Project Management and SaaS Tools We Love
At Monkee-Boy, our design, development and marketing teams strive to be superheroes ready to combat a wide spectrum of problems our clients might be facing with their websites and web presence. Aside from magical powers, great costumes and loveable sidekicks, every superhero must have a utility belt full of cutting-edge crime-fighting tools. Creative agencies have to juggle the needs of multiple clients efficiently and affectively.
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How To Quickly Test Google Web Font Speeds
When selecting web fonts, though, you have to keep in mind that every font and font weight will have a performance cost. How much depends entirely on the font, number of font weights, and the source.
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Freebie Friday: 4 Clean & Crisp City Actions
It's Friday, which means we're back with another one of our Freebie Fridays!This is our first set of PS actions released, and as such we wanted to explain it, as it's a bit different than our normal freebies. If you're not familiar with actions, it's a set of commands saved in sequence, so you can open any photo, hit "go" and the photo edits will occur. We've set all these up for non-destructive editing, which means all effects are in layers grouped above your original photo...
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Adding Delight to Usable Web Designs
Not too long ago, there was a debate over at UX Mastery over the following statement: We should design for usability, then add delight. One camp argued that, yes, good design is the result of a usability first approach, while the other side made cogent points like...
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Experience Design and Visual Design: What's the Difference
In web design, Visual design and Experience Design (or UX, abbreviated for User Experience) are two sides of a coin; there is a lot of crossover in the two disciplines, and in many small companies both positions may be filled by the same individual. But while they retain similar goals, the thought processes and deliverables are very different. To use a more familiar metaphor, you can think of the UX Designer as an Architect, and a Visual Designer as an Interior Designer.
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