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UX Design

User experience tips that cover UX design, UX research, and how to achieve human-centered design.

experience design
Design Thinking Tools UX Design 

10 Success Factors for the Experience Design Process

Dr Rafiq Elmansy 05/31/201604/03/2023experience design 9 min read

Experience design (or “user experience design”) aims to improve the usability and accessibility of the digital or physical product and thereby create a pleasant and effective experience while using the

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ui design patterns
UX Design 

UI Design Patterns and How They Are Applied

Designorate 05/09/201610/09/2022design patterns, ui design patterns, ui patterns 5 min read

UI design patterns are based on the observations of Christopher Alexander. In 1960, he observed that many things happen in our lives according to recurring patterns. This observation was later

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journey map
Brainstorming Design Thinking Tools Ideate UX Design 

7 Steps to Create a Successful Journey Map

Yumna Matar 04/28/201610/11/2022Journey Map 7 min read

‘Putting yourself in someone else’s shoes’ is a commonly used idiom. For a designer, however, it is an essential step in concept creation, research, and design. In order to guide

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UX research
Brainstorming Design Thinking Tools UX Design 

How to Conduct a Successful UX Research for Your Design Project

Dr Rafiq Elmansy 04/18/201610/09/2022user experience research, UX Research 9 min read

Lacking a clear understanding of the project target audience can prevent a design team from developing a product that fulfills the end user’s needs and expectations. Before starting a project,

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white space in ui design
UX Design 

The Role of White Space in User Interface Design

Designorate 04/09/201610/20/2022Ui Design, User Interface design 6 min read

In the field of design, controversies between clients and designers sometimes arise regarding the use of “white space,” or negative space between user interface design elements. Misinformed clients are often

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Adobe XD
UX Design 

Adobe Experience Design CC: Taking the Creative Cloud to Prototyping

Dr Rafiq Elmansy 03/15/2016Adobe Experience Design 4 min read

As interactive and user experience designers, there was always the question: Why is there not a prototyping tool included in the Adobe Creative Cloud? Since the release of Adobe Creative

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human-centered-design
UX Design 

Five Principles for Successful User-Centered Design

Dr Rafiq Elmansy 03/04/201610/09/2022User-Centered Design 7 min read

Look at the various products in our daily lives. Why do we love specific products while we get frustrated with using others? Why you prefer to use a specific brand

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inductive reasoning
UX Design 

Using Inductive Reasoning in User Experience Research

Dr Rafiq Elmansy 03/01/201610/09/2022inductive reasoning, User Experience 5 min read

Part of the design process is to build a deep understanding about users’ behaviors and how they tend to use products or applications. This can be achieved through user experience

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ux design process
UX Design 

Five Common Mistakes Committed by UX Design Teams

Dr Rafiq Elmansy 01/18/201605/28/2022UX Design 5 min read

Building a user-driven design process is one of the main targets of the UX design team, which aims to create a product or service design driven by deep understanding for

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user experience mind maps
UX Design 

Using Mind Maps to Track User Experience

Dr Rafiq Elmansy 12/23/201512/23/2015User Experience 4 min read

When it comes to building a user-centered design, the core target is to have a solid understanding of the user experience and how users navigate through different design layout elements.

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ux design process
UX Design 

Five Reasons Behind a Failed UX Design Process

Dr Rafiq Elmansy 09/28/201509/24/2022 5 min read

Many products in the market can be beautiful or full of functions and features, but are hard to use. These products reveal the importance of the user experience process, which

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user centered design process
UX Design 

Building a Solid User-Centered Design Process

Dr Rafiq Elmansy 09/17/201510/03/2022User-Centered Design 3 min read

Many companies claim they are designing with the end user in mind; yet too many products fail to achieve this goal. This occurs because of a variety of factors, like

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psychology of color
UX Design 

The Psychology of Color in Branding

Dr Rafiq Elmansy 01/02/201505/23/2022The psychology of color 5 min read

For most creative designers, the psychology of color in design is about the meaning of colors for the consumer and how each color represents the business niche in the visual

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persona
UX Design 

Persona vs. Archetype: Which Is Better For Design Brainstorming?

Dr Rafiq Elmansy 11/18/201412/20/2015Archetype 3 min read

In my previous article about empathic design, we saw how the designer should put himself in the shoes of users in order to understand their needs and behaviors while using

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empathic design
UX Design 

Empathic Design Approach to User-Centred Design

Designorate 11/10/201405/13/2022Empathic Design 6 min read

In his book “Change by Design,” Tim Brown describes empathy as “the mental habit that moves us beyond thinking of people as laboratory rats or standard deviations.” Unlike marketing research

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