Has this ever happened to you? After weeks of careful user research – planning sessions, interviews, observations, analysis – you present your findings to the team. Instead of excitement or curiosity, you get… indifference. A stakeholder shrugs: “Yeah, we already knew this.” Another adds, “These insights are pretty obvious.”
This way of working takes some time to get used to and isn’t always a fit for everyone, but the beauty is that there is no one right way to freelance. You get to decide, based on your experience and interests, what projects or assignments you want to take on and what you don’t.
Stacks are a new way to build flexible, adaptable layouts in Sketch. From buttons to complex UI, they’ll have a huge impact on how you work in Sketch. In this post, design lead Chris Downer shows us what they are — and why they matter.
In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to turn a Figma animation into a Lottie loading animation using the LottieFiles plugin.
When I think about one of the recent projects I worked on, a question comes to mind: If I wasn’t getting paid for it, would I still take on this project? Would I dedicate the same level of effort and attention to detail? Is this something I love doing, or am I just good at it?
This week: a killer UX framework, jaw-dropping case studies, and tools you can use today.
We often spotlight wireframes, research, or tools like Figma, but none of that moves the needle if we can’t collaborate well. Great UX doesn’t happen in isolation. It takes conversations with engineers, alignment with product, sales, and other stakeholders, as well as the ability to listen, adapt, and co-create. That’s where design becomes a team sport, and when your ability to capture the outcomes multiplies the UX impact.
UX designers work on a wide range of products, from websites and simple mobile apps to advanced and complex systems. It’s often with these systems that the biggest challenges appear: making sure the product is as simple and intuitive as possible for users, and that its content is well thought out and meets their needs.
Learn how to use Lottie animations to add smooth, lightweight motion to websites, apps, games, videos and more—with no animation skills required!
After an exponential growth in users and data, daily synchronization tasks started taking hours or even days to complete. Here’s how rebuilding a data pipeline reduced latency to near real-time.
