We Need to Talk About Mental Health for Designers
Mental health is not a laughing matter. According to the World Health Organisation, 1 in 4 individuals around the world suffer from a mental disorder, and »
Punctuation & Grammar: Bridging the Gap Between UX and Copywriting
Punctuation? Grammar? UX design? What? Yes, you heard me! Punctuation and grammar is vital for an optimal reading experience, and in turn, an optimal user experience. »
What Should Designers Do With Their Offline Time?
When we’re bored or stressed, we tend to do things half-heartedly. We rush things, hoping to complete tasks quickly rather than efficiently. But what many »
How to Boost Mobile UX with the Device Camera (With Examples)
Designers and developers are cutting their time and mobile development costs by implementing features that rely on native device hardware. Not only does this save time »
Why is Whitespace in Web Design So Powerful?
Whitespace, also known as “negative space”, is the space in a design occupied by nothing other than a background colour or a faint background image. Not »
New Sympli Feature: Centralise Your Design Review Process
Growth is literally inevitable in design teams. Your workflow evolves. Your team expands. Each and every individual design becomes more elaborate as your team draws closer »
What Came First, the Design or the Content?
A designers role is to carefully combine select shapes and colours, A/B test different layouts, fine-tune animations, and craft user flows with the intention of »
5 Killer Ways to Make Your Clients Part of Your Team
“Collaborate with your clients”. Yes, we’ve heard it a million times before, but how many of us actually do it? How much you collaborate with »
How do Sketch Styles Translate to CSS Code?
Sketch released an interesting update to their .sketch file format this month. Where it was previously written in binary code, it’s now written in JSON, »
What Ignites Creative Energy?
Being creative is about more than designing beautiful visuals and attractive layouts. The most creative designers are able to find the best solutions to the issues »
Exploring the Love-Hate Relationship with Video Content
Video can be engaging, immersive, even emotional at times. Yet, why, when it comes to web and app design, does video have an underlying bad reputation, »
How to Build Trust with Your Users Through Design
When we think of improving the user experience, we think of happy users resulting in a boost of conversions (sales, signups, etc). We often forget about »
How to Boost Conversions Below the Fold
In this day and age, where there is so much content to choose from (in our inbox, our newsfeeds, etc), there’s an increased amount of »
How to Design the Perfect "Coming Soon" Page
2017 is rapidly becoming the year the of side project. Sadly, though, most on-the-side’s eventually end up abandoned due to a lack of time, not »
How to Design the Perfect Call-to-Action
At the end of the day, the overall aim when designing user interfaces is to usher the user towards a call-to-action (also known as a CTA) »