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What Is User Experience Design? Overview, Tools And Resources

Websites and Web applications have become progressively more complex as our industry's technologies and methodologies advance. What used to be a one-way static medium has evolved into a very rich and interactive experience.

But regardless of how much has changed in the production process, a website's success still hinges on just one thing: how users perceive it. "Does this website give me value? Is it easy to use? Is it pleasant to use?" These are the questions that run through the minds of visitors as they interact with our products, and they form the basis of their decisions on whether to become regular users.

What is User Experience?


User experience design is all about striving to make them answer "Yes" to all of those questions. This guide aims to familiarize you with the professional discipline of UX design in the context of Web-based systems such as websites and applications.


Showcase Of Beautiful Vertical Navigation Designs


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Showcase Of Modern Navigation Design Trends



The design of a navigation menu has to be outstanding in order to sustain the user's interest. As the adage goes, "Content is king," but getting to the content requires navigation. In this post, we'll be explore some of the more recent trends in navigation design. We'll look at the aesthetics that recur in today's best Web designs. The focus here is on the visual direction that leading designers are taking.

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Call to Action Buttons: Examples and Best Practices


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How can we create effective call to action buttons that grab the user's attention and entice them to click? We'll try to answer this question in this post by sharing some effective design techniques and exploring some examples.


Module Tabs in Web Design: Best Practices and Solutions



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40+ Helpful Resources On User Interface Design Patterns

If there is a commonly reoccurring need for a particular solution, there is a great probability that someone has - by now - solved that need and has finished the legwork involved in researching and constructing something that resolves it. At the very least, you will find documentation on general solutions to related problems that will enable you to gain insight on best practices, effective techniques, and real-world examples on the thing you are creating.

A design pattern refers to a reusable and applicable solution to general real-world problems. For example, a solution for navigating around a website is site navigation (a list of links that point to different sections of the site), a solution for displaying content in a compact space are module tabs. There are many ways to tackle a specific requirement - and as a designer - the most important thing you can do is selecting the option that best reflects the needs of your users.

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40 Stunning and Creative Graffiti Artworks




This article follows and adds to an article written last year, entitled Tribute To Graffiti: 50 Beautiful Graffiti Artworks.


30 Beautiful Real Estate Websites



In this showcase, we'll explore some great designs of real estate websites. We'll also discuss some commonalities between them to tease out current trends in real estate websites.

Property realtors want to convey the message that they're reliable and well-established. They want home buyers to feel that they will be purchasing property from a company that's dependable, steadfast and time-tested. That's why most of them opt for a classic and sophisticated theme for their websites, rather than a sleek, modern theme.


40 Captivating Photos That Depict Human Emotion

Though we differ in the way we look and things we believe in, there's something we all share: emotion. Human emotion is innate in all of us; it's something we're born with and something we die with. Happiness, sadness, love, hatred, worries, and indifference - these are things that constantly occur in our daily lives.

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Today we share with you 40 powerful depictions of the human emotion. In these photos you'll see celebrations, sadness in defeat, raw anger, and everything else in between that makes us what we are… human.


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