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How to Conduct Usability Testing Easily&Quickly

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In the field of product design, there’s no denying that usability testing is one of the best ways to improve your products, but the user researchers who conduct usability testing are never enough.To enable our colleagues in all departments to carry out research & testing in an efficient way, we’ve made some easy-to-understand documents & tutorials, including this article on usability testing. Designers always take  usability design  first. One thing should be noted that the testing methods introduced in this article are simple & informal with small sample and an objective of discovering serious problems. If you need a further understanding of testing principles & methods, the following books are for your reference: Handbook of Usability Testing Usability Testing and Research Measuring the User Experience Before we get started, I would like to inform you that the earlier you make the usability testing, the better. And you could make the testing with ...

15 Sites to Get Web Design Freelance Jobs

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To be a web design freelancer is a common dream for many web designers, they got ability and passion for their own career but don’t want to limit themselves to just one company for life long. They have desires of being able to work all over the world with different people. However, the reality is not that easy to deal with, maybe you’ve quit your job but the lack of stability may ruin your dream. Do you know how to find big platforms for freelance web designers? If you got no idea, this article will offer you with 15 great sites for your choice. (Este texto se ofrece en espaƱol:  15 Sitios Web para Obtener Trabajos Freelance .) If you are new to be freelancer, to get your first web design freelance job, you will join in a giant competition with others in the same profession. Therefore, before you commence the sign up in those job-offer websites, it would be great having  skills to raise your competitiveness as a web designer . After that you can start your adventure! ...

The Best Mockup & Wireframing Design Tools & Apps for UI/UX Designers

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Prototyping/wireframing tools are the best communication method between interaction designers, project manager, and website developers. It’s a key step of web or mobile app development process. While in principle, the design of prototypes must be a product of interaction designers, and the user-centered concept shall run through the whole product design progress. The professional perspective and rich  user experience  of interaction designer will directly influence the usability of the product. So, the problem of how to complete a good prototype design that’s depending on how you choose prototyping/wireframing tools. Below are the most popular  mockup  &  prototyping/wireframing tools   & apps  based on website, desktop, and mobile device. Web-based Prototyping Tools 1.  InVision As a web-based collaborative program, InVision is powerful at clickable & interactive prototypes, real-time design collaboration ...

UI/UX Designer Skills Valued by Facebook

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My friend Cynthia wasn’t a fan of social networking. It’s hard to find her in any online circle, except for Facebook, where she occasionally kills her time. However, yesterday she told me that she’d fallen in love with FB. On the 2 anniversary of her registration, she just logged in the community and found a video clip customized for her. In that video, her avatar was printed on a badge, picked up by a hand with dark skin and was put on table in the middle of many badges printed with the avatars of her friends, accompanied by another badge, on which there is a line, “Thank you for your accompany and not forgetting” Cynthia was deeply moved and played the video back over and over again. Facebook, a community with over 1.4 billion users, totally won her affection by its focus on users. It’s no wonder that so many designers dream of becoming a member of the social network giant. Facebook never made its  process of selecting a UI/UX designer  public, but if you are concer...