These books have been the most impactful books in my work+life. They have helped me stay inspired, learn from the experts and motivate my best work. Use these books to examine your beliefs, attitudes, habits and skills. You’ll learn how to invest in yourself, build a remarkable career and live a fulfilling creative life. If you’re looking specifically for UX/Product… Read More ￫

I’m Matt, the founder of Lucid, the tool that makes it super easy for you to manage and share design systems. As a UX designer I love digital products and have always wanted to create something of my own, but because I’m not a developer I’ve never had the skills to actually build software and make it happen. It’s been… Read More ￫

Finding the right person for a startup can be hard, but finding the first product designer to strengthen your product in terms of aesthetics and usability may be even harder. From the very beginning, you want someone who is capable of leading the design process. You want someone who will do everything they can to solve the problems of your… Read More ￫

UX writing is the practice of crafting UI copy that guides users within a product and helps them interact with it. UI copy includes buttons and menu labels, error messages, security notes, terms and conditions, as well as any instructions on product usage. The primary aim of UX writing is to settle communication between users and a digital product. In… Read More ￫

So much goes into building a website. There is a fairly standard design process which every designer should work through to achieve great results and minimise the risk of failure when starting a new project, including journey maps, site maps, user flows, personas, content, Lo-Fi and Hi-Fi Wireframes, UI audits. However, it’s not just about creating a good set of… Read More ￫

This brief guide introduces UX designers to color contrast ratios and how to effectively apply this principle to your designs. This article does not delve into the complexities of choosing accessible colors for color blindness. Read more on color accessibility here. The purpose of UX design is to facilitate a seamless interactive experience for users. As such, color selection and… Read More ￫

Buttons are an essential element of interaction design. They have a primary role in the conversation between a user and the system. In this article, I’ll review seven basic principles you need to know to create effective button design. 1. Make buttons look like buttons When it comes to interacting with user interface, users need to know instantly what is ‘clickable’… Read More ￫

Our mission at Marvel is to democratise design and give everyone access to the tools they need to visualise ideas. That’s why we created our Design Tool, it let’s anyone jump into the browser and start creating wireframes and mockups instantly. Now we want to take that to the next level by helping make every single design you create in… Read More ￫

At Marvel, we spend a lot of time thinking about how we can increase your design productivity. We’re always looking for ways to save you time, whether that’s automating the entire design-to-development process or simply one less click when prototyping. That’s why we’re excited to introduce our new tool, Userflows, built with the Marvel API. With one click you can… Read More ￫

As a developer, the moments when I learn the most are those when I am building things. This is true for the stuff I build on the job, but even more when I work on something I choose to work on, a side project that really excites me and that I do on my own time. Coding a feature or… Read More ￫

Every product has an ultimate goal — to help people solve certain problems. When designing a product, you need to keep user experience in mind, you don’t want to create a product that is more complicated than the actual problem the users have. There are some User experience principles to follow when designing a product. It could be an app,… Read More ￫

It’s hard to imagine a modern product design process without prototyping and testing. By following a technique “Show, don’t tell.” Many product teams use prototypes today to sell or test ideas. At the same time, quite often product teams fall into traps that reduce the effectiveness of their prototyping efforts. Here are six of the most common pitfalls. Prototyping without a purpose… Read More ￫