Simple rules guide you towards appropriate design decisions and help you make a more compelling case for decision-makers. — Design Principles are an assortment of considerations that form the foundation of any good product design. You can find many articles online listing various principles, but often they lack concrete examples from products we encounter daily. Here are ten principles that can help you create more usable, effective, and immersive…

Applications we design are becoming increasingly data-driven. The need for quality data visualization is high as ever. Confusing and misleading graphics are all around us, but we can change this by following these simple rules. 1. Choose the right chart type Choosing the wrong chart type, or defaulting to the most common type of data visualization…

Today we compare them to see who will pack more punches. — What does the research say? When choosing a navigation layout for your app usually you will need to define the position of primary, secondary, and tertiary navigation hierarchy. A research study “A comparison of three-level menu navigation structures for web design” by Jennifer Rose Kingsburg indicated many benefits for having primary navigation on the left…

Learn how to plan and run a successful design thinking workshop. Helping teams reach important objectives and have fun. — All recommendations in this guide are based on learnings from over a hundred workshops, large and small, onsite and remote, with startaps and enterprises that we have facilitated at Windmill and research made by other brilliant designers. Design thinking workshop is a time saver

Journey mapping may seem complex, especially if you trying to do it in the group workshop. This article will give you a powerful tool and a simple template, that will help you create insightful journey maps and facilitate like a pro. — Why customer journey mapping? Journey mapping is one of the most powerful and commonly used tools designed to map/describe how users reach their goals. When we combine storytelling and visualization we immerse ourselves into the client experience. When done properly the value of journey mapping is immense:

Improve your presentation and wow your audience. — If you need to design a compelling pitch deck, presale presentation, or create training material that will keep the audience engaged this is an article for you. 1. Understand the presentation goals The first question you need to ask before creating any presentation is “ What is the goal?. …

Making choices never was more satisfying. A detailed look at checkboxes, radio buttons, and toggles design. — The word “toggle” is a reference to a switch with a short handle that alternates between two states each time it is activated. You encounter it every time you “switch” on the lights. As for “Radio Buttons” the word comes from the car radios that as common practice had a…

Simple rules that will help you design forms users will like to complete — Forms have existed for a significant amount of time, greatly simplifying the task of drafting complaints and various other legal pleadings. With the advance of information and its processing, means to gather the data are also evolving. As printed forms were here for years we can learn a few tips…

All you need to know about button design, one of the main interactive building blocks for creating a user interface. — In order to design the right interactions, we need to look back at the history and origins of physical pushbuttons, a direct predecessor of the UI component so heavily used in all digital products today. Buttons are amazing. The touch of a finger setting an appliance, a car, or a…