While applying as a Product, Interaction, or UX designer, you might be asked to perform a design challenge. With just 20 minutes and a whiteboard, an interviewer can gauge exactly how you think as a designer. I needed to be ready for this infamous step in my recent interview experience…

Recreating Twitter Video’s “share from” feature with Framer — Practice Practice is obviously crucial to becoming better at anything and when it comes to prototyping, creating fake prototypes is a great way to hone your skills. It’s got a few benefits: Increasing your skillset. You’ll be better prepared to find solutions when problems arise. Finding the easiest way. You’ll know…

Warning: gifs incoming! Speed is a crucial aspect to design. As designers, we need to rapidly produce and iterate through ideas. Technical chops are important, but knowing when to pull them out is the better skill to have. …

Warning: gifs incoming! Almost all current design tools are aiming to bridge the gap between design, prototyping, and collaboration. InVision has entered into this space with Craft Sync, a Sketch plugin that links screens together which can be then uploaded to InVision’s web application. Sketch has rolled out an in-app…

First, a disclaimer: InVision is a company that ships product updates often, so the images this article may not reflect the current state of the app. InVision recently released their new design tool, InVision Studio. You can sign up for early access here—they’re inviting new users every week! I found…

In this post we’ll explain how to build a weather app, like this one we built. Matt and I decided to create this as our hello world to developing something and we think it’ll be helpful to explain this process, our process. …

Quickly simulate VR experiences for testing and validation — The why Prototyping is one of the most valuable tools that a designer can leverage throughout their design process. Creating something that can be used, tested, analyzed, and judged is how we decide if design decisions stay or go. And when done quickly, prototyping really becomes dangerous. Prototyping is especially useful in…

Quickly simulate VR experiences for testing and validation — The why Prototyping is one of the most valuable tools that a designer can leverage throughout their design process. Creating something that can be used, tested, analyzed, and judged is how we decide if design decisions stay or go. And when done quickly, prototyping really becomes dangerous. Prototyping is especially useful in…

This is the 5th post in a series of posts recapping the courses in my UX Design graduate program at MICA. Date: March 15th — April 19th Thoughts so far This program so far has been challenging and rewarding . …