design lessons

Non-Design lessons learned while designing interfaces

During my time at NextUX Design Agency, apart from designing screens and experience, I have learned so many non-design lessons that I would like to share.

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CSS — What is currentColor keyword?

Did you know in CSS you can specify the color property once and use that value without specifying it again using the currentColor keyword?

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WebRTC — Switch Cameras using Javascript getUserMedia

To fetch or toggle between the front-facing camera and the back camera, we can simply use the "facingMode" which is widely supported in the majority of the browsers.

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Understanding Javascript Array's .reduce() method and its use-cases

After reading various tweets and blogs, I decided to write a detailed article on what exactly reduce method is and what can be some of its use cases.

Design thinking

Common UI/UX design mistakes young designers should avoid

Mistakes in the design phase often lead to a cycle of rework in the product development process. So, It is always best to avoid and take care of mistakes that might occur unknowingly or knowingly.

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React.js — How to execute useEffect hook only once?

Have you ever faced this issue that your useEffect hook gets executed multiple times? Maybe sometimes it goes into the infinite loop?

UI Design

Visual design rules every UI designer must follow.

To make your UI visually appealing and balanced, you need to apply right UI principles.

UX Design

UX Design, and factors defining it.

What is UX Design and the role of different factors in designing the overall User experience of the products.

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UX Laws, My first Chrome extension

Hello Friends, Today I am going to share with you my first chrome extension, UX Laws that I have built for myself and also for all the new UX designers. Basically, I have just converted the Laws of UX website into a chrome version. The design of this chrome extension

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Designed an app, Along, to let people watch and listen together.

ProblemPeople who move out of their native places or home town always miss the time spent with their friends, family and loved ones. A lot of them feel lonely and boring throughout the days. And sometimes they want to enjoy the best things with their family, and friends despite living

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Javascript & CSS — Toggle dark/light theme based on your user's preferred scheme

This blog focuses on how to switch between the dark and the light theme as per your user's preference.

Tech

Common Javascript Promise mistakes every beginner should know and avoid

I wish I knew about all these mistakes while learning javascript and promises.

Design

A Product research template for new onboard UX designers, and teams.

Sometimes, when we designers join the new companies or startups, we were directly given the responsibility to design the best user experience for the products and one of the team members just explains us the problems of the product and take us through the whole product experience, they believe that

Design

Why people don't even care about your design?

Being a designer this might sound harsh but it’s the truth. People don’t care about your designs. They don’t even believe in your designs. Instead, what they believe in is whether your product can make their life simpler or not.

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3 things UI Designers can learn from the developers around them.

Being an only UX/UI designer in a team of full of developers is hard because every day you have to struggle hard to keep everyone on the same page while handling and sharing deliverables like UI pages, icons, illustrations, design specs. I was doing my work perfectly being a

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Does Google Maps always show us the best route while navigating?

This thought randomly came to my mind when I was going to a place with my friends in a car, and 3 of us started to navigate. I noticed that all of us got slightly different routes and all of them had a little variation in time. Before that, I

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Node.js - How to open a password-protected .zip file?

Extracting a .zip file is very easy in any language, but when it comes to open a password protected zip in node.js, there are very few libraries and tutorials.

Design

My 30 Design challenge to create an eye for Design.

This story is all about my collection of good design and bad design. No matter, what you do and where you are, you are always going to be surrounded by things human have designed.

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Games that UI designers can play to test their skills.

No matter how good you are in your skills, every once in a month, you still need to check whether you are still good enough or you need to open the tool and design things, but hold on I got some other options to test skills in a more fun way.

Node.js

Node.js − Scrape Client Rendered (React.js / Vue.js) Pages

There are tons of scraping tools out there for Node.js like cheerio, but what if there is an empty DOM with only a bunch of JavaScripts? The bigger challenge is what if you want to scrape thousands of pages of a specific website without getting your IP blocked?

Design

Why sketching can be your unicorn skill

First, I just want to ask you a simple question, Have you tried sketching after coming out of your colleges years? Have you taken the help of sketching to explain someone your ideas? If your answer is NO, then.....

Design

Design is all about communication.

What is Design? I believe this is the most cliched question that every designer had faced and the problem is there is no single answer to that..

Design thinking

Why did I choose design?

This is the question which I believe that every designer had faced while interviewing for different design positions. In response, we designers share our beautiful design journey.

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PHOTOGRAPHY: What it means to me

"Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, Every hunderedth of second." - Marc RiboudDreams, Aspirations, Emotions we all live with it, live for it. But It's important how intensely we are leaving each moment of life. As a human, we want to possess every single thing. This is what photography is

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How to be a triangle-shaped designer.

If you are from the design community, maybe you already have heard about the T-shaped designer, a term popularised by the IDEO CEO Mr. Tim Brown.