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How to develop an eye for UX design?

Heuristic evaluation is a great tool for developing an eye for design and understanding best practices. This set of guidelines helps you to notice important details and discover patterns Define what you want to accomplish. (Example: I want to create a mind map and share it with my colleagues) Go through the usability check list. You can use Jakob Nielsen’s Heuristics for User Interface Design or…

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How to present design decisions (Framework)

First published on medium.com/@nadyatsech 5 steps to prepare for any presentation whether explaining a paper prototype to a colleague or presenting a product to a client. Designers explain design decisions every day. Sometimes a presentation can decline into a fruitless pattern of never-ending questions or irrelevant recommendations. This framework helps to: keep listeners focused on crucial…

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Ratings and Social Media

Great examples how to ask your readers to rate your app or follow you on social media. (more…)

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10 steps to getting more downloads for your digital magazines...

10 steps to getting more downloads for your digital magazines…

Useful tips from a lead digital publishing specialist David Hicks

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60 Inspiring Free Tablet Magazines

I set a goal for 2015 to make a new list of the best free digital magazines. I’ve checked 1216 free tablet magazines on the App Store. It was really hard to narrow these magazines down to 20, so I decided to post a long-list of the best free tablet magazines. Want to know who made it to Top 20? Go here>>> (more…)

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Top 20 Free Digital Magazines 2015

In 2014 I posted a list of Top 25 Free Digital Magazines, this post was very popular, several thousands viewed it. This year I decided to repeat the success and prepare a new list of the best digital magazines of 2015. It was a terrible idea. Since 2014 thousands of new tablet magazines has been published on the App Store and they are considerably better, in 2014 90% of magazines I reviewed was…

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CNTraveller Russia. Best Free eMag of 2015