Life can be tough sometimes for UI designers. While they get to create great designs, they also get to deal with pressure from clients or PMs. They’re required to consider user experience and user flow. And they often struggle to find an effective way to communicate with developers. To relieve some of the pressure from my fellow designers, I want… Read More ￫

Welcome to the latest instalment of my series on writing as user experience design. I’m discussing key principles of user-centered design with the aim of applying these ideas to writers’ contributions UX and UI. Let’s talk about testing. As UX writers, we’re well aware that we work in a space obsessed with evaluating usability. And we love it! We’re in… Read More ￫

We’re excited to announce Dashboard, an integration built with the Marvel API. It syncs with your Marvel account and displays what your team is working in real-time, perfect for TVs and screens in the office.   In companies where design moves fast, it’s hard to keep everyone in the loop with what’s happening in the design team. At Marvel, we… Read More ￫

As hardware begins to fade and software experiences come to the foreground, it is essential to focus on the way we design the interfaces that users will see and interact with. Over the last decade, interface design has seen a turn from replication of the physical/material (referred to as skeuomorphism) to a much more flat, abstract aesthetic. While this new… Read More ￫

Christmas 2017, I made a bold decision to part ways with my nonsense about not having enough time to pursue my interest in programming. I had previously dabbled in different development languages, without really committing to any kind of progression or journey. That joyous sense of personal fulfilment upon learning a new skill was subsequently absent from most of my… Read More ￫

Background A new fast food franchise is opening 500 new stores across the U. S. and Canada. Each store has 5–12 employees and each employee needs 3 uniforms: the main uniform and 2 seasonal ones. Currently the franchise is in the process of hiring and preparing all stores for a grand opening. Corporate is collecting orders and holding them for… Read More ￫

Accessibility: (noun) the qualities that make an experience open to all Accessible design is good design — an accessible user interface (UI) opens experiences to a wider range of users and improves experiences for existing users. That’s the beauty of designing with all abilities in mind — it benefits everyone, not just those with limited vision, hearing, or mobility. When designing… Read More ￫

There are quite a few articles on the web that deal with responsive logos. The most popular example might be the Responsive Logos website that shows some very well known logos in different variations for different screen sizes. When I first saw this example, I thought it wasn’t much more than a little gimmick. In the end, it is just… Read More ￫

Introducing Marvel for Keynote, an integration built with the new Marvel API. This simple Mac app gives you a quick way to upload Keynote files to Marvel in just a couple of clicks. Slides are instantly converted into images in your Marvel projects, ready to be turned into prototypes or shared with your team for feedback. Here’s a few ways… Read More ￫

Bidirectional scrolling allows a user to scroll both vertically and horizontally when using an interface. The Question It’s Monday afternoon and the air is starting to feel stuffy in our meeting room. We are standing in front of 20 marketing professionals, all of them representatives of individual countries of an international non profit organisation. We just finished presenting our new… Read More ￫

Last year, we launched a feature which has quickly become a cornerstone of our platform and really helps product teams move between design and development smoother and faster. It’s called Handoff and it allows teams to grab code, specs and assets from designs and prototypes to handover to development teams. We’d now like to announce that the feature is now… Read More ￫

After well over six months of an incredible effort, Al Jazeera rolled out public beta version of a set of sophisticated tools that allow to compose and publish an entirely new type of content — a scripted interactive chat. The goal of the entire endeavour was to create a more engaging and inclusive storytelling experience around the interview format. We worked… Read More ￫