Author: Lee
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How to Quickly Come up with 25 Ideas
Have you ever been in a situation where you need to come up with a few solid solutions fast? One of the best ways to give yourself a few really good solutions to explore are to come up with a lot of ideas. There are many ways to do this, but one method in particular…
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Evaluating digital products and sites using heuristics
I’ve been in this scenario and you probably have too: there is a new feature on a site or in a product to review but time is short. What is the most efficient and fastest way to get quality internal feedback? How many people do you really need to review and help with testing before final sign…
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Ten Question Icon Usability Checklist
I’ve put together ten questions that will help designers and developers QA their next project. I created this quick checklist based on discussions with other professionals and computer science students. I hope you find it helpful. First, what are icons and why do we use them? Icons are a quick way for us to visually…
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Adobe XD Test Drive
I recently needed to create wireframes for a project and decided to take Adobe XD (also known as Adobe Experience Design) for a spin. Here are my “play-by-play” impressions. * *note: Some of the issues in this article were addressed by Adobe in recent patches. I wrote the original version of this article several months ago…
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A recipe for creating user personas
Are you confused about what a user persona is or need to create one and don’t know where to start? There are many ways to make one, just like there are many ways to make banana muffins. I have a starter recipe for you below that you can customize to suit your own product or…
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When should card patterns be used?
I read a very interesting article on Medium recently by Rob Gill about a real world struggle with using cards. After a new feature launch on a sports news site, there was the usual amount of user backlash to change. However, some of the user feedback gave valuable insights about why they thought the new…