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Animations in design have quickly gone from flashy might-haves to guiding must-haves. Especially within mobile design, without well thought out animations your a product may fall flat. It is never too early to start thinking about animations. Kieran Black via Medium offers a guide on fitting animations into your UX flow <bit.ly/1SMylLk>

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Have you been reluctant to use A/B Testing as a part of your design strategy because you don’t know how to get started? -- WhatPixel offers a simple guide to help determine the variables <bit.ly/1o2MbkL>

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In the need of a prototyping tool, or wondering what making the switch to a new tool would entail? -- Cooper not only offers an basic breakdown of every popular tool, they also offer detailed pros and cons. <bit.ly/1C4cbkv>

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Have you ever considered becoming a UX Designer, or do you want to be sure you are proficient with your skills? -- Well, there are many things that play into being a successful designer, where UX Beginner offers an extensive list of all things you should know as a beginner, including information architecture, coding, content strategy, etc... <bit.ly/20p0PRh>

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Interaction Design, or IxD (in technical terms), has escalated to become the focus of designers everywhere. Whether they are working on UX or UI design, user interactions always have to be in mind, especially given the context of mobile and wearable devices on the market. UX Booth breaks down everything beginners need to know in their guide to interaction design <bit.ly/1gwM1vA>

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Have you ever wondered what the most used design tools are? Subtraction.com surveyed over 4000 designers from 200+ countries to come up with their interactive results <bit.ly/1gclSE6>

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“Anybody who’s spent time on a design team has almost certainly encountered the persona.” Designing with the persona in mind is a must in the current landscape, as it allows you to get in the head of your users/consumers. Laura Klein via InVision Blog defines a persona and also encourages a predictive persona in order to show your understanding of not only what your users are like, but also diagnose what will keep your user happy on your platform based <bit.ly/1K9teEz>

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“Design is conceiving and giving form to artifacts that solve problems.” How do you begin and work through the design process when given a task? -- Most designers keep to a repetitious plan. UX Magazine breaks down the design aspect to Karl T. Ulrich’s plan to efficiently consolidate ideas in a common loop structure <bit.ly/1LGZD7t>

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In keeping with the the current trends in mobile design you always have to be one step ahead. Meng To has you covered with his designcode.io iOS 9 Sketch Graphical User Interface Kit <bit.ly/1O4JxBW>

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User Experience is the same as Customer Experience right? -- Wrong, or at least according to Interaction-Design.Org’s Nick Kellingley. With a few solid points that back up his thought process, Nick argues that UX makes up only a portion of CX <bit.ly/1w0WOah>

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While sometimes it can be easy to identify a bad User Interface, other times certain negative aspects go unnoticed because maybe you are too close to the product or you do not know what to look for. Scott Hurff offers an excerpt from his book ‘Designing Products People Love’ that helps identify bad UI, but more importantly it offers many ways to fix a bad User Interface <bit.ly/1TX9P0e>

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The funny thing about micro-interactions is that if they are created/working correctly most people probably do not even notice that they exist. While it may be difficult for some to realize just how essential they are to design, they play a major role in our everyday life. The Next Web call micro-interactions the secret to great design and offer and overall look and breakdown of them <bit.ly/1Nd7EBo>

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While page-based prototyping may be great for some web applications by rapidly creating an initial flow, layer-based prototyping is quickly becoming a standard because of the frequency of animations in mobile design. Because, what if you could create all of your mobile animations without having to write even a bit of code... Well, that is exactly what layer-based prototyping is and Tes Mat (cptv8) has compared five of the most accessible tools to create layer-based prototypes <bit.ly/1Nf4nAp>

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Who knew how many UX design lessons can be easily demonstrated through travel websites. With points like ‘Use Action Verbs’ and ‘Provide Social Proof’, Hongkiat offers 10 things that we can learn about UX from travel websites <bit.ly/1IBuSgg>

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It is no easy task standing up to and even above the long-running design platform Photoshop, however Sketch does so many things right it is hard not to make the switch. Whether you just started using Sketch or you were an early adopter of the widely acclaimed digital design platform. Streamline your workflow with Web Design Ledger’s 38 best tutorials for Sketch <bit.ly/1W70PnE>

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“The job of an icon is to guide your users. Keep it simple.” Icons are as essential as any other element when designing platforms. You always have to be sure that they are clear and that they serve a purpose. UserTesting offers a guide to make sure your icons are user-friendly <bit.ly/1M3wu4O>

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UI Kits can make web/mobile design creation a breeze. They can also spark new ideas to your current platform’s web design. InVision offers both Sketch and PhotoShop versions of their cross-platform Now UI Kit <bit.ly/1M9pHbq>