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• How to Create a Slick UX Design Portfolio [Visual Guide]

  If you’re just getting started in user experience (UX) planning, then there are a couple of things you need to get hired: a portfolio that wows, and a resume that makes you look your best. But how do you get this done when you don’t have a lot of experience? It’s a vicious cycle. Potential clients and recruiters want you to have experience, but you can’t get experience till somebody hires you.Continue reading

  • User Experience
  • UX Planning

  Feb 20, 2019•11 min read
• Getting Started With Building UX & User Flows for E-commerce

  If you’re going to build a successful e-commerce site, then you need to focus on what users want. If you don’t, then even if you get plenty of traffic, you lose money because of uncompleted sales by disgruntled visitors. If you want to avoid that scenario, then it’s important to think about user flows to help design a better overall user experience (UX). This topic can often be confusing, so we’re going to break it down. Continue reading

  • Creating a User Flow
  • User Flow

  Jul 31, 2019•10 min read
• 6 Tips To Help Sell Web Design Services Without A Sales Rep

  You make websites; and if you also sell web design services, you probably do a good job at it. The problem is, however, being able to make good websites doesn’t always mean you are able to sell your web design services. You’re a designer, not a salesperson after all!Continue reading

  • Slickplan Usability Guides

  Jan 04, 2018•8 min read
• How to Create Adaptable and Evolving UX Strategies

  “If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail!” This quote is often attributed to Benjamin Franklin. But whoever said it, it definitely applies to your UX strategy. The UX design process can be complex, so you shouldn’t leave things to chance. Much as a successful business plan must be dynamic and ever evolving, so must UX strategy.Continue reading

  • Using Slickplan

  Jan 30, 2020•10 min read
• 10 Questions to Ask Your Social Media Manager

  Almost everyone uses social media in some capacity. Between 60-80% of U.S. adults use Facebook and/or Youtube, for instance. And 20-40% of people say they use Instagram, Pinterest, LinkedIn, Snapchat, Twitter, WhatsApp, and/or Reddit. 3.48 billion people use social media—some even argue that we’re seriously addicted to it. So, it’s no wonder social media is an attractive tool to marketers.Continue reading

  • Content Planning
  • Content Planning Guide

  Aug 14, 2019•8 min read
• Website Sitemaps: A Comprehensive Guide

  Sitemaps are a surprisingly straightforward, yet complex part of the website planning process. They look simple and often don’t take too long to create, but their influence on a final website, in terms of navigation and usability, is entirely more complicated.Continue reading

  • Content Planning
  • Sitemaps For SEO

  Aug 08, 2018•40 min read
• Creating Website Structures that Are Built to Last

  Website structures are the first step to building incredible information architecture, something that separates good websites from awesome experiences.Continue reading

  • Website Architecture Strategy

  Mar 21, 2018•8 min read
• Understanding Kanban & Scrum Tactics for UX Designers

  If you’ve been even remotely around or in the website and software development industry in the last 20 years, you’ve heard of Agile. Agile principles focus on self-organized teams delivering…Continue reading

  • User Experience
  • Using Slickplan
  • UX Planning

  Jan 08, 2020•12 min read
• Understanding Digital Design Terms: IA, UI, and UX

  If you’ve spent any time in the world of web, you’ve probably been inundated with acronyms like UX, UI, IA, and beyond. You’ve likely read about them, and surely have seen job opportunities for them. But what exactly do they mean?Continue reading

  • User Experience
  • UX Planning

  Jan 04, 2019•7 min read
• Designing Buttons for the Web – Guide & Examples for 2020

  Buttons on the web are an integral part of user experience. Their goal is to inspire conversion and action from the person on the other side of the screen. But when they’re not implemented well – either in design or copy – they may not be getting any attention at all. As a user experience (UX) professional, it’s important to know how to best design buttons for the web in 2020.Continue reading

  • User Experience
  • UX Design

  Jan 06, 2020•10 min read
• Sitemap Templates & Examples for Websites [Free]

  A sitemap is a visual display of the content on a website, including videos, images, files, and page. Sitemaps are used by web designers, web visitors, and search engines to plan and/or navigate the content of a website. There are 3 general types of sitemaps: Visual sitemaps used by web designers and developers, HTML sitemaps used by site visitors (like this sitemap from Supercuts.com), and XML sitemaps used by web crawlersContinue reading

  • Guide to Building Sitemaps
  • Slickplan For Sitemaps

  Jan 13, 2020•8 min read
• Best Sketch Wireframe Kits to Get Your Project Started

  You’ve pushed through discovery: user research, stakeholder input, content audits, and more. Now it’s time to put the information architecture together in a responsive design that meets the needs of a hungry audience. Wireframes are not a new concept in this world. Wireframes set the stage for any final product or invention. Blueprints for homes and buildings serve as wireframes; in prototyping for products, they’re often displayed in three-dimensional formats, like with computer-assisted design (CAD) drawings. Continue reading

  • User Experience
  • UX Design

  Aug 28, 2019•5 min read