A design sprint allows you to see into the future to learn in just five days what customers think about your finished product. As a UX consultant and in-house design strategist, Claire Mason has facilitated dozens upon dozens of design workshops (ranging from rapid prototyping sessions to, of course, sprints). The sprint is by far the most effective process she’s seen to drive customer-first decision making in a design thinky way.
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Middle Eastern countries require design that is suitable to their language standards, making a serious adaptation process very important. Given that most languages spoken in the Middle East are written and read from right to left, developers often face a range of problems when creating products in those languages. In this article, Robert Dodis & Yvette Mosiichuk will show you some tips which if you follow closely, you should be able to navigate the challenging waters of RTL development and deliver a functional, user-friendly result.
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Using customer journey mapping to map your campaigns can not only turn out to be a huge timesaver, but a well of insights, too. In this article, Yuri Vedenin shares his experience with CJM and how UXPressia was able to achieve a 40% open rate in their email campaign.
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With the coming of the Client Hints, Variants and Key specifications, there’s a lot to take in, and while it can be interesting to understand how the browser works under the hood, Andrew Betts shows you some simple things you can distil from it: Browsers ignore Vary for resources pushed using HTTP/2 server push, so don’t vary on anything you push. Vary is not as useful as it could be, and Key paired with Client Hints is starting to change that. Follow along with browser support to find out when you can start using them. And much more! Go forth and be variable.
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SmashingConf 2018 is all about learning new skills and making new connections. Practical sessions, new formats, new lightning talks, evening sessions and genuine, interesting conversations — with a dash of friendly networking! Taking place in London, San Francisco, Toronto. Tickets? Glad you asked!
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All artworks in this collection come in versions with and without a calendar for November 2017, so it’s up to you to decide if you want to have the month always in sight or just some distraction-free inspiration. All images can be clicked on and lead to the preview of the wallpaper, and you can feature your work in our magazine by taking part in our Desktop Wallpaper Calendars series. A big thank-you to everyone who shared their wallpapers this time around! Enjoy!
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Developing for macOS using Swift has a lot more in common with iOS development than you realize. To prove this, Marc Vandehey will walk you through building a simple screen-annotation application. Once completed, you will realize how easy it is to build applications for macOS. This app is pretty short and sweet, but you will learn a few things. By the end of this article, you will become an Apple developer. Congratulations, and happy programming!
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All webmasters should strive for improving the performance of their website, and increasing their website’s security. If you’re looking for ways to increase your website’s performance and security, Jonas Krummenacher brings you five methods that are great options. Not only are they all relatively easy to implement, but they’ll also modernize your overall stack. Some of these technologies are still in the process of being globally adopted; however, as demand increases, so will compatibility. Thankfully, there are ways to implement some of the technologies for browsers that support them, while falling back to older methods for browsers that do not.
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UX designers use a lot of different research techniques, such as interviews and workshops. They summarize research findings into user stories and user flows and communicate their thinking and solutions to the teams. But somewhere in all of this, there are real people for whom the products are being designed for.
In order to create better products, designers must understand what’s going on in the user’s world. And that’s where storyboards come in. In this article, Nick Babich will focus on storyboards as a means to explore solutions to UX issues, as well as to communicate these issues and solutions to others.
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Not too long ago, front-end performance was a mere afterthought. Something that was postponed to the end of a project and that didn’t go much beyond minification, asset optimization, and maybe a few adjustments on the server’s config file. But things have changed.
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