Daniel Schwarz

Daniel is a digital nomad designer, coder, writer and 3x author. He's also the editor of the Sympli blog and co-editor of design at SitePoint, and loves travel, cooking and trying out new workflows.

Digital Nomad https://mrdaniels.ch/warz 76 posts

Emotional Design: How to Persuade Users to Convert Last week we talked a little bit about branding, and one of the topics discussed was how emotional design is used to make users feel a…

Daniel Schwarz 20 February 2018

A Quick Guide to Branding for UX Designers Icons by Xinh Studio licensed by Creative Commons (Attribution 3.0 Unported). ——— Branding is half art (visual design) and half science (communication), and represents how a…

Daniel Schwarz 13 February 2018

High-Fidelity Prototyping and Design Handoff with Adobe XD and Sympli Last week we talked about lean UX workflows, and we learned why the lean UX technique works well for teams using collaborative design tools like Adobe…

Daniel Schwarz 06 February 2018

Lean UX and Low-Fidelity Prototyping with Adobe XD and Sympli Last month we released our new Sympli for Adobe XD CC App, which helps UX designers export their designs from Adobe XD to Sympli for a…

Daniel Schwarz 01 February 2018

How to Export Adobe XD CC Screens to Sympli Designers have been able to export screens from Sketch and Photoshop to Sympli for a while, but we're happy to announce that you can now export…

Daniel Schwarz 23 January 2018

What's New in HTML 5.2? Hint: Native Modals and More... HTML 5.2 is finally here (meaning that web browsers will begin supporting the specification very soon, if they haven't already). What's new? What's disappeared? Today…

Daniel Schwarz 17 January 2018

7 Breakout Tech Trends for 2018 Icons in cover image by BomSymbols. It's finally 2018, so it begs the question, what sort of applications will we be designing and developing this year?…

Daniel Schwarz 04 January 2018

5 Great Stock Photo Collections That Integrate with Sketch and Photoshop Icon by Designmodo, licensed under Creative Commons (Attribution 3.0 Unported). In today's article we'll be featuring 5 stock photo collections that integrate with Sketch; some…

Daniel Schwarz 20 December 2017

A Beginner's Guide to CSS Grid Remember back in the old days of the web, when websites were made of tables? Source code looked a lot like this: <table> <…

Daniel Schwarz 13 December 2017

How to Run a Quick Usability Test with Sketch Mirror We all know how valuable user testing can be for improving UX. It's an important step in any lean workflow, where the aim is to collect…

Daniel Schwarz 06 December 2017

Why Shipping Should be a Part of Your Design Process Iteration is a natural and necessary part of the design process, but so many of us go about it the wrong way. Before we talk about…

Daniel Schwarz 30 November 2017

How to Design Responsive Logos (and Why) By harnessing the capabilities of SVGs (Scalable Vector Formats), we can design logos that are responsive (that is, they adapt to different screen sizes in ways…

Daniel Schwarz 23 November 2017

A Designer's Guide to Eye Care When You Stare At Screens 24/7 Designers (and developers too, of course) who stare at screens 24/7 often suffer from blurry vision, debilitating stress, and chronic headaches. It's an awful feeling,…

Daniel Schwarz 15 November 2017

Why MVP Design Needs to be Driven by Data (and How) Data-driven design is when something is designed in accordance with sensible logic; that is, when the data proves that it should be designed that way. When…

Daniel Schwarz 08 November 2017

How to Convert Paper Prototypes into Sympli Screens Consider UX theories like "as the world wide web becomes accessible in more countries, more inexperienced (and older) demographics are using the internet now, so we…

Daniel Schwarz 02 November 2017