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Is your mobile app suffering from "everything but the kitchen sink" syndrome? We often find when working with new clients on their user experience design strategy that they start with an ambitious goal for their app. They want 'everything but the kitchen sink'! While...
At WWDC this year Apple announced its biggest design update to macOS with the introduction of Big Sur. It’s packing new features like sidebars and widgets, and there are updates to the appearance of windows and the dock. But what’s really got the design community...
The best plugins are not only reliable but complement your workflow and enhance your designs. Here’s a quick list of some of our favourites that are useful not only for app designers, but anyone using Sketch as their main design tool. Sketch Measure HTML Output from...
Over time designers build up a collection of resources that they visit or use regularly. Resources we use to remind ourselves of best practice, to check our knowledge is still up to date, or what exactly the size of an iPhone 6s is again! Below we've listed some...
We follow a 5-step UX/UI Design Process here at Tapadoo. It all begins with our discovery workshop where we brainstorm with our clients. We discuss in detail what our client wants to achieve with their app, all the while thinking about the user. Most sessions start...
A lot of the time these terms UI and UX design are used interchangeably however, they stand for two separate things. To understand the difference between user interface (UI) and user experience (UX) design let's take a step back and understand what each term stands...
How a user first enters your app is an important experience. It's the first opportunity for the brand to build trust and set the users expectations. Depending on the type of product, the app onboarding experience will be different. Over the next few minutes, we'll...
Are you interested in a career in UX design? If so, have a read of this post which outlines the difference between UX design and graphic design. And what you can do to become a UX designer. What is UX design? Designers: we’re all designers, and in a sense we’re all UX...
Is iOS and Android design really that different? A common request we get here at Tapadoo is to build an app that has the same iOS and Android design features. A reasonable ask, by all means. “Our app should look the same to everyone no matter what platform they are...
There’s a lot of demand for UI/UX designers at the moment. And you’ll see job descriptions looking for skills in certain areas like graphic design, human centred design, wire framing etc and knowledge of programs like Sketch, Photoshop, Illustrator, InVision, Balsamiq...