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What’s Up with QR Codes: Best Tools & Some Clever Ideas A Word About Creating QR Codes I almost always create QR codes on a desktop or laptop computer. That’s because I usually like to display them on a project screen, and my laptop is already connected to that. If I want to print or incorporate the QR code into a document, I’ll probably be doing that from my desktop or laptop. 20 Excellent Wireframing Tools for Mobile Planning and wireframing your mobile website or application is an essential part of a successful design process. It can help save you money (on design and development costs), expand initial ideas, build structure and functionality and effectively gather invaluable early feedback. We have gathered 20 of the best tools for wireframing mobile websites and apps, each of which offers a unique set of features. Furthermore, there are plenty of other wireframing and diagramming apps available, which may also be of interest. Please note, though, not all the tools listed below offer mobile-specific functionality; several are rather basic. However, each is worth exploring to see if it fits your requirements:

8 Things Every Creative Should Know Since graduating from design school eight years ago, Adam J. Kurtz has worked various full-time jobs in creative fields, from film production to advertising to designing gifs for BuzzFeed. But all the while, he was pursuing the work he loved on the side, through self-publishing zines and producing witty novelty wares like pins and stationery. That side hustle led the young designer and artist to develop his own business and become a published author. And in his latest book, he’s sharing advice for his peers. Titled Things Are What You Make of Them: Life Advice for Creatives, the book is available this month through Penguin’s TarcherPerigee imprint.

h4ckademy Getting Started as a UX Researcher: Tips and Resources More and more companies are beginning to recognize the importance of user-centered design. Understanding customers and designing solutions that serve their needs is quickly becoming a business priority. And because of that, the demand for UX researchers is growing. In some situations, people who don’t have any UX research experience are falling into this role at their company. 21 free ebooks for designers There has always been a healthy market for commercial books written by experts, and this isn't likely to change any time soon: sometimes there's just no substitute for splashing your cash and getting high quality content in return. That said, there's a growing movement towards free and freemium content on the web, and the quality of the content is often on a par with the books you'd part with cash for. 5 must-read books for design students Obviously nobody can afford to print and distribute free physical books (with the exception of the excellent World Book Night movement), but in this age of tablets, smartphones and laptops the electronic book offers a fantastic, and very cheap, way to spread this content.

Sneakpeekit Browser sketch sheets for Web Designers Quickly design awesome website wireframes and mockups on our Sneakpeekit Browser©. We provide a large sketch sheets collection with many different canvasses, grids and PSD grid templates. Any sketch sheet is a ready-to-print A4 PDF template. We have included PSD Photoshop grid templates too for quickly converting your sketch in a graphic mockup. Free License: Feel free to download and use our templates for personal projects with attribution back to sneakpeekit.com. A Guide to Preparing Files for Print With this guide, we are going to examine ways to prepare files for print, covering applications in the Adobe Creative Suite. The examples used are for InDesign, but can apply to Photoshop and Illustrator. This is a basic guide aimed to help people just starting out in the print design business or are looking to learn more about preparing files better to send to press. Understand the Basics

¿Cómo construir "personas" (arquetipos)? - Kambrica Hace poco escribimos un artículo donde contábamos la utilidad de los arquetipos (usualmente llamados “personas”) durante el proceso de diseño tanto de un producto como de una interfaz. En este artículo vamos a ver cómo crear una persona. Construyendo arquetipos Las personas se construyen en función de sus objetivos, porque la interfaz tiene que hacerse para satisfacer esos objetivos. Una buena persona es específica, fácil de recordar y tiene información de valor para el diseño. Para la creación de personas se usa predominantemente información cualitativa (hábitos de uso, preferencias, y toda otra información relevante sobre el uso del producto).

Πως το έλεγαν εκείνο το προγραμματάκι… 24 Usability Testing Tools [UPDATE as of October 2014] An UPDATED article with newer information is available on my site, please make sure you check it out: 14 Usability Testing Tools In the past few years, there has been massive growth in new and exciting cheap or free web site usability testing tools, so here’s my list of 24 tools you may need to use from time to time. Gone are the days of using expensive recruitment firms, labs and massive amounts of time to create, deploy and report on usability tests. By using these usability testing tools and others like them, you have for the first time a complete set of tools designed to tackle almost any usability research job. From recruiting real users (with tools such as Ethnio) to conducting live one on one remote moderated tests (UserVue) to analyzing results of usability changes using A/B testing (Google Website Optimizer), there is a plethora of useful and usable tools to conduct usability testing.

How to create animated GIFs for UI design presentations You may have seen really cool animated GIFs that design professionals are using to present UI design on Behance, Dribble and other design communities platforms and wondered how did they created them. What is fast becoming one of the best ways of illustrating gestures and animations in mobile apps, animated GIFs offer a little more over traditional storyboards and static screenshots. In Part 1 of the series, I show how to create the animated GIF above. The Most Important Parts of UX for Ecommerce Imagine walking into one of your favorite stores. You’re expecting a quality visit as always, but this time you find it hard to locate the products you’re most interested in. The customer service associate is sitting behind the counter playing a game on his phone and you can see open boxes with merchandise scattered on the ground, as if the stock person didn’t finish their job. First, and second, and thousandth impressions are important. Even more so for online businesses.

Revista UX Nights - Esta es una publicación digital para profesionales de usabilidad y experiencia de usuario, creada para compartir información, técnicas y recursos útiles para la comunidad en español.