ux&ui design

Whenever found an interface that looks nice, clean and elegant, I save it. Now I have a collection of more than 100   UI interfaces . After learning, making use of or simply viewing it again and again, I finally realized something in common. It is always the color that steals my heart at the very first look. So here, I’d like to make a conclusion about   how to use color in UI design wisely . A serious note first, what I wrote can’t turn you into an excellent UI designer magically, but I promise you’ll learn something here. If this is actually useful, please leave me a comment. 1. The magic power of color Color can speak, as powerful as language. You just can’t argue me about that. Think back whenever you encounter a site or a product, it is the visual appearance, which largely depends on color, that always leaves you the very first impression. So, what color can do actually? 1) Reflect the personality ofa brand Color can set the basic tone,mood, connotation and con...

Have you meet some problems on the UI design for mobile devices? For example, small mobile screens? Bad user experience? In this article, I will cover some things you can do to learn practical user interface design . 1. UI design principle Don’t think the practical   UI design   principle does not apply to small mobile screens. Five elements of UI design you should take into consideration: 1). Goal-driven Design. This allows you to customize the app working process and meet requirements for target users. 2). Usability. It may look empty, but you have to guarantee your application is usable. Users don’t like to download a complex app from App Store. Usability makes your product useful and hopeful. 3). Affordance & Signifiers. The signifier is an implication of affordance. For example, underlined blue text reminds you it’s a hyperlink, and it can link to other pages when you click it. With correct signifier, users can easily understand UI element. 4). Learn...

AI and UX   are inextricably entwined in today’s world where we’re now facing a turning point in the new era of design. They both affect and inform how the other works, however some people think AI will eventually replace designers and the need for human-driven UX. “The end is near”, according to those specialists in artificial intelligence and robotics. One typical example is a TEDx talk of Futurist Thomas Frey, saying that over 2 billion jobs will disappear by 2030, and robots will probably take over a portion of jobs which are now occupied by humans. Looking back to 2017, we can find that AI has been widely applied in various fields, like Uber’s self-driving car, Chatbots of customer representatives, Amazon’s delivery drones – the revolution of robotic is just getting started. Will the rise of AI replace the work of designers, are we in trouble? How will AI impact the design field, designer’s career as well as design tools in the future? Here, let’s explore those questio...

Mobile app User Interface design   trends keep changing based on varying user needs. However, that does not mean   UI design trends for mobile apps   in 2018 could not be predicted. Actually, after carefully analyzing UI design trends and innovations in the past few years, we could find some laws behind and predict the possible trends that will also continue into the following 2018. Hence, here we will share top 9 UI design trends of mobile App for you in 2018: 1). Overlapping effects The overlapping of fonts, graphics and colors cannot only make UI designs more eye-catching and distinctive, but also create a sense of space. And that’s also why overlapping of different mobile app UI design elements has been widely used by designers in recent years. Moreover, in some cases, the overlapping of the same elements, combining with shadows, will also make the whole mobile app interface designs more fantasy and impressive. Hence, the overlapping of different elements in ...