Augmented Reality is gradually overtaking virtual reality. With AR, users are able to interact with the overlay objects, immerse in games, and mend information around them. The evolution of… Read More

The science and practice of web design goes far beyond building visually appealing websites. It’s more about offering an easy and enjoyable experience to the users. Above all, a good w… Read More

For a beginner designer, choosing a front-end development framework can be harder than threading a stubborn camel through the eye of a needle. The popular packages remain popular, while new… Read More

In 2019, the sales of mobile apps are likely to skyrocket, making it crucial for startup founders to launch the mobile versions of their products. Here are some other reasons for having a mo… Read More

Constant updates can be a serious sore spot for users. How many times have you opened Facebook and thought to yourself, “Again?!” But the truth is brands change – sometimes… Read More

There used to be a time when getting search rankings was about stuffing a bunch of keywords into content and linking to low-quality sites. SEO has come a long way since then, thanks to the r… Read More

By the end of 2018, the number of apps in Google Play and App Store surpassed 4 million. On average, smartphone owners use 10 apps a day and 30 apps per month. Although mobile app owners thi… Read More

Online Magazines Thought Leaders Communities Top Bloggers For our list of the most important design communities on the internet, we've chosen only those places that have a high activit… Read More

Online Magazines Thought Leaders Communities Top Bloggers Welcome to the Fluid UI list of the most under-appreciated blogs and bloggers in the design space. We've scoured the internet… Read More

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The case for startups to make customer experience a top priority is built around the simple fact that establishing and nurturing a strong customer base is key for startup success. A robust c… Read More

When Google initially announced the mobile-first index back in November of 2016, an online firestorm of epic proportions began brewing. But for over a year, nothing changed. Google released… Read More

How well does your website perform? Are users left waiting for your content to load? Is your speed lagging behind the competition? If your website isn’t performing its fastest, you&rsq&hell…Read More

Testimonials are easy right? Just email a few of your friendly clients and have them write up a good word, slap them on your website and then you’re done right? Well, though you can ce… Read More

How well your design and copy work together determines how user-friendly and intuitive your app, website, or content are. They have the ability to inform or distract; entertain or bore; conf… Read More

In 2025, a wide array of applications will use brain signals as an important source of information. We will see routine applications in professional context, personal health monitoring, and… Read More

Trust is crucial to your brand’s success. After all, if your customers don’t trust you, they won’t spend money on you. But it’s not obvious how your brand can convey… Read More

Even though designing digital user interfaces is an exercise in two dimensions, nearly every UI out there has depth and perception, properties native to the 3D world. Even ‘flat design… Read More

One of the biggest challenges entrepreneurs face is keeping up with emerging technology. And with more businesses shifting budget towards digital, artificial intelligence tools and machine l… Read More

Designs are a reflection of the times. Designs are also the outcomes of needs that emerge during a particular period. These cardinal rules of design apply to app development and sites. Over… Read More

The 404 page of every website - a page which many companies spend a great amount of time working on, while hoping that no customer will ever see it. Why? Because when a customer sees your 40… Read More

After years of procrastination, I started shipping products. I love testing new business ideas and now that I have learnt basic coding, it has opened up new possibilities: I build more MVPs… Read More

For startups, it can be difficult to know when to spend and when to save, when to outsource and when to hire and also how to hire. While trying to differentiate the essential team members f… Read More

When building a new website or mobile application, it’s essential to focus on user interface (UI) and user experience (UX). Nailing both ensures that visitors download the app and enga… Read More

Men and women behave differently online. Their goals and motivations are different, and this leads to differences in the products they use and how they interact with different design styles… Read More

Men and women behave differently online. This is hardly a shocking statement. But, it is one that designers struggle with or even fail to factor into their UX design. In this article, we loo… Read More

We are surrounded by Artificial Intelligence (AI), whether you are aware of it or not. From spam filters that protect you from unwanted email to autopilots in airplanes, examples of AI impac… Read More

From day 1 of your startup there are tools that will make you more productive, help you to reach more people, help you to find out what your users really want but most importantly there are… Read More

Figuring out the best way to market your business is a bit like a game of chess. You must think strategically, anticipate your competitor’s next move and be able to think through diffe… Read More

Building trust in your brand means more people will feel confident sharing their payment details with you. They’ll feel confident that your products are quality and reassured that if s… Read More

You might already have a crystal clear vision for the amazing company or product you are about to develop will be. But the minute your vision has a logo, it becomes far more real. Nonetheles… Read More

When ESPN.com decided to listen to their community and incorporate feedback they had into their homepage design, they saw a 35% jump in their revenues in just one year. That’s the powe… Read More

What do Paul McCartney and Keith Richards have in common - other than being massively successful recording artists? For one, they both claim that some of their greatest hits weren’t wr… Read More

How do you make your mobile app stand out from the crowd? This has been, and will always be, a major focus for mobile app developers. Among so many applications that there are in the market… Read More

This article covers everything you need to know to design a world class brand - the kind of brand that immediately communicates a unique message to your customers, resulting in a deep emotio… Read More

Back to 1998, American software designer and programmer Alan Cooper published the book The Inmates Are Running the Asylum about "how talented people continuously design bad software-based… Read More

Although mobile apps are becoming an effective tool for accomplishing the daily needs like purchasing online products and services, according to the certain research report, more than 75% mo… Read More

It was in September 2017 that Apple had unveiled its futuristic and cutting-edge iPhone X, which is already on the roll since November 3. And it was just a couple of days ago that Apple had… Read More

Progressive Web Apps have been accepted wholeheartedly not just by developers but have been given a “thumbs-up” by web-users, as well. Since the user experience is designed to pl… Read More

From Apple to Starbucks, it’s easy to see the impact that a strong logo has on a company’s image and branding. A well-designed logo immediately connects our minds to the busin… Read More

Building a brand is crucial to the visibility and longevity of a business. As time moves forward, the standard definition of what a brand is has also evolved. Guinness, one of the world&r&hellip…Read More

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The greatest teacher, failure is (Yoda) It's a new year, and time to make a fresh start. You may have a great idea, maybe you are looking for an up and coming startup, maybe you want to… Read More

The greatest teacher, failure is (Yoda) It's a new year, and time to make a fresh start. You may have a great idea, maybe you are looking for an up and coming startup, maybe you want to… Read More

What is Voice UI? Designing Voice UI is currently trending at conferences around the world - but how do they work and can you design one for yourself or your own company? Lets start with… Read More

Business cards might seem like simple things, but with a format so tried and trusted, there are always those people who will try to stand out from the crowd and create something a little...d… Read More

The early days of a startup are a virtual utopia - sitting in a nice, cozy place, bouncing back and forth ideas that will make the next successful billion dollar company. Money coming in loo… Read More

You can have it in any color, as long as it’s black In the early 1920s, 80% of all cars on the road were black, largely due to the dominance of Ford’s Model T. The Model T… Read More

I thought that the number of UX/UI positions being advertised would diminish with time but it does not seem to be happening - yet. In this post, I will set out some pretty compelling reasons… Read More

Get started, processes, teamwork, methodology, future of UX In a world where technology becomes the norm on all levels, the usability, look and feel of the software is as important as the f… Read More

Mobile app development (and more importantly design) are adopting the concept of using your thumbs while making a mobile app. One of the main studies in this area was that of Josh Clark w… Read More

Today as the level of competition in the mobile application development industry has become stiffer, the vitality of two most significant terms have augmented. These are User Interface (UI)… Read More

1. The emotion you most want to generate Create awe in your users The internet is famed for angry rants that spread virally. But anger is short lasting - to create a really meaningful i… Read More

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This is the second part of a 3 part series about the latest research in cyberpsychology - and how UX designers can utilise it to build better experiences. Part 1 explores the motivations b… Read More

The buzz of Friday night is in full flow as you arrive at the startup weekend. Ideas are pitched and you are gravitating towards the idea you are most passionate about. The next 72 hours h… Read More

Inspired by three fantastic talks recently given by Conflux, I decided to dive a bit deeper into the subject of cyberpsychology. What is cyberpsychology? Cyberpsychology is the study of… Read More

Online Magazines Thought Leaders Communities Top Bloggers Hi again. Or for the first time. Both are good. For our list of the most important design communities on the internet, we've… Read More

Online Magazines Thought Leaders Communities Top Bloggers As fast evolving disciplines, UX research and UI design have both their early stage luminaries and their timeless champions… Read More

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Online Magazines Thought Leaders Communities Top Bloggers Hi! Dave here with our list of the top 25 must-read publications for designers on the internet, bar none. We've scoured the… Read More

As design moves more and more towards higher fidelity and quicker turnarounds the sometimes slow, but ultimately more efficient, movement of design through various stages is sometimes been r… Read More

I’ve heard too many painful stories of good early stage startups failing due to delays in software product development. Communication breakdowns, developers gone AWOL, buggy releases a… Read More

What is a “one pager”? Occasionally ridiculed for being “not agile” or “too much documentation”, the “1 pager” continues to be used in many s… Read More

1. Upload your own assets quickly With Fluid UI, you can use uploaded images in two ways - by adding them into your uploads library if you need to use them often (for multiple projects) or… Read More

Here at Fluid UI, our mission is to unlock the world’s creativity. We want any person, regardless of religion, creed, location, ability or experience to be able to create and share the… Read More

As accurate and portable brain imaging technologies become more mainstream, the nature of how we interact with computers will change completely and forever. Traditional design roles will bec… Read More

In 2025, a wide array of applications will use brain signals as an important source of information. We will see routine applications in professional context, personal health monitoring, a… Read More

Founding a startup isn’t for everyone, but for those with both an entrepreneurial and creative mindset, the urge to define a product vision, to make the world a better place or just to… Read More

We just finished attending the first UXDXConf in Dublin, which aims to merge design and development in both hardware and software in order to accelerate product success. With speakers from I… Read More

Moving an idea out of your head and into the market is not a simple process. There are a lot of obstacles which can get in the way if you let them. But, if you follow a few simple rules wh… Read More

Back to 1998, American software designer and programmer Alan Cooper published the book The Inmates Are Running the Asylum about "how talented people continuously design bad software-based… Read More

My recent talk on open innovation, shared co working and how it can benefit your team, your users and your product and your company. In it I talk about prototyping, design thinking, open i… Read More

Digital nomads are people who use telecommunications technologies to earn a living and, more generally, conduct their life in a nomadic manner. Such workers typically work remotely&mda… Read More

”if a company is using Lean and Agile - then why would they need a prototyping tool like Fluid UI?” I was asked. The gathered crowd looked on. Had he ever built software I won… Read More

Innovation is defined simply as a "new idea, device, or method". However, innovation is often also viewed as the application of better solutions that meet new requirements, unarticulated… Read More

In lean product development, the top priorities are maximising the production of customer value and minimizing waste. The battle against waste is constant and it's all too easy to have som… Read More

Even before I had started working in social media and community management, I knew how important it was to listen to users and your target audience to get better insights for product improve… Read More

Aiming to engage with the audience at a talk I gave recently, I asked what I presumed was a fairly innocuous question. Expecting only to see who was awake and who was comfortably dozing in t… Read More

I met Andrei Gomes when I worked for one of the biggest school chains in Brazil, in 2011, coordinating a post-graduation course about digital media. Besides being a designer he was also my m… Read More

"For most people, technology makes life easier. For a person with disabilities, technology makes things possible." In 1999, the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI), a project by the Worl… Read More

#UX in a nutshell: making things for people. Those people aren't you.— Visual Logic (@VisualLogicUX) August 19, 2016 In an earlier post I spoke a little bit about the websites of th… Read More

Last week, in Dublin, I had the pleasure of meeting an expert in the international fashion business. We were talking about how a UX driven design approach could benefit fashion and luxury br… Read More

As we saw on UX for conversion: Understand your user, designers around the world have been using UX techniques to drive the user to a specific place on their website or app. But as UX specia… Read More

A few months ago I was invited to write a chapter for a Brazilian book about Digital Marketing focused on High Performance. Professionals from different fields would write about different to… Read More

Last year, while I was living in Los Angeles, I got talking to a CEO from a startup in "Silicon Beach" (Santa Monica area). He invited me for a coffee as he was curious to understand why som… Read More

Small companies are constantly battling with massive amounts of work to be done and not enough people to make it all happen. Scope needs to be cut, features need to be delivered to the highe… Read More

Lisandra Maioli has worked on three continents and in multiple organizations as a journalist, marketer and UX designer. We give you the second part of our interview with her where she talks… Read More

We recently spoke to Tim Treis, a member of Enactus Bielefeld about a smartphone app project he is taking part in. Enactus is a non-profit students initiative, which believes in empowering p… Read More

The success of Pokemon Go in the last couple of weeks may make much of this post seem irrelevant. However, it is one thing to design and launch an app which you are planning to give away for… Read More

If you took a badly timed coffee break recently, you’d be forgiven for missing the birth of an era. If you didn't, you probably noticed the staggering launch of Pokemon GO - a product… Read More

“It is impossible to step into the same river twice.” - Heraclitus Asking the right question is the fundamental and most basic building block of a successful research proj… Read More

Lisandra Maioli's career began in journalism at a time when working in digital media was considered crazy and UX hadn't even been invented yet. Since then she has studied at Berkeley, delive… Read More

Have you ever read a long, catastrophically boring blog post about the history of design, UX, or similar linkbait crap? It was probably created to improve the blog’s search engine rank… Read More

Have you ever read a long, catastrophically boring blog post about the history of design, UX, or similar linkbait crap? It was probably created to improve the blog’s search engine rank… Read More

In some recent posts we've have been talking about product validation. In particular we've have been focusing on a leaner method of user research. Usability tests are not soft sales pitches… Read More

If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be very intelligent, read them more fairy tales. Albert Einstein Albert Einstein made that com… Read More

If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be very intelligent, read them more fairy tales. Albert Einstein Albert Einstein made that com… Read More

I recently sat down with Cathal from the office of the Dublin Commissioner for Startups in the vaults of Dogpatch labs, a co-working space for tech companies at the heart of Dublin city and… Read More

Brian met Dave Newcombe through the inapp messaging service which we provide at Fluid UI. After a brief discussion about the aims of his project (Fountain Of Health) we decided to support it… Read More