Tag: prototyping
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3 Ways to Screw Up Your MVP After Its Release
When your Minimum Viable Product (MVP) is successfully released, you can still screw things up. Here’s how to avoid squandering your MVP and messing up your full product. The best possible start Let’s paint a picture where your startup has done everything right, from concept through first release. You identified a customer problem—a need—and envisioned…
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How to Prototype a Scroll Shadow in Adobe XD
Adobe XD doesn’t provide scroll state settings or scripting, but you can still imitate scroll shadow behavior in your prototypes. Here’s how. Desired design Let’s say you’ve designed this scrollable screen. The header casts a shadow at all times when you run the prototype. But let’s say, for the purposes of keeping this article moving…
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Communicating UI Design: Problems with Lorem Ipsum Placeholder Text
Avoid the pitfalls of pasting improbable dummy placeholder text (lorem ipsum or otherwise) into your user interface designs. When communicating UI design, you’ll sometimes use temporary placeholder text (“dummy” text) in your wireframes, mockups, or even interactive prototypes. Below I list some of the problems with pasting perfect pieces of placeholder text all over your…
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Adobe XD Update Adds Two Long-Awaited Features
The June 2018 Adobe XD update improves the tool’s prototyping capabilities by adding fixed-position elements and overlay support, among other enhancements. Just last month, Adobe put their UX design and prototyping tool—Adobe XD—on a promising path of improvement while simultaneously making the tool free to use for everyone. This month’s update—available as of June 19—fulfills…
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4 Reasons NOT to Use Polished Prototypes in Early Usability Testing
Your usability testing might be negatively affected by an overly polished prototype. In our current age of prototyping tools, it’s cheaper and easier than ever to create beautiful, clickable prototypes for usability testing. It is now feasible to sit your very first usability test participants in front of a fully interactive prototype that looks and…
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Now is the Time to Try Adobe XD… and Make it Better
Adobe recently made its UX design and prototyping tool free to use. Now is a great time to help shape Adobe XD into the tool it needs to be. As you may have already heard, Adobe announced a free version of Adobe XD, their UX design and prototyping tool for web and mobile applications. The move…
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