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Donald Norman put forward the term of "user experience" in the 1990s. The UX design industry is still a worthwhile area to explore and learn, and the market demand for the UX designer continues to increase at nowadays.

So today we will introduce the user experience related to the design and use of interactive products, and list the best learning UX design resources to help you advance to be a successful UX designer.

After a year of Facebook’s “like” button updates, the "like" button design of Facebook attracts people’s attention again due to the Ted speech of Margaret Gould Steward. Is it really this difficult to redesign a button as small as the “like” button on Facebook?

UX design acts as the backbone of a designing experience. Much like an engine under a vehicle’s hood, the UX ensures that a digital experience is smooth, intuitive, and simple.

You can’t always see it, but you’ll feel the difference when using an interface with optimized UX. Whether you’re creating an e-commerce app to run on multiple devices or developing a new cloud-based platform, a well-designed UX can ultimately set your product apart from the competition.

Believe it or not, eCommerce websites or stores has been become the future of our shopping, and the rise of online shopping websites is the reason why more and more people are moving towards online shopping rather than physical shops. However, whether it’s just the presentation of fashion clothing or the latest electronic products, people just seem to love seeing things which are beautifully designed.

And this goes the same way for your website. If you fail to present visitors with an attractive website and user-friendly experience nicely, then you’re leaving money on the table. In another words, attractive web design can be a pivotal factor in successful online sales and marketing. Here, we’ve listed up top 10 eCommerce websites to help you create or redesign your online presence, hopefully they can give you ample design inspirations.

UI/UX design ideas always play a key role in helping designers create an excellent iOS or Android mobile application design works in most cases. And that’s also why UX/UI designers often spend much time in searching and looking for a variety of free or commercial UI/UX design templates or examples for inspirations. And today, we have come up with a collection of latest mobile app interface designs for your inspirations and hope it will really help you somehow.

Nowadays, creative interaction designs cannot make your webs/apps interesting, but also attract far more visitors/users to visit/use your webs/apps. And these fresh UI interaction design examples are inspiring and will be surely useful for you to create beautiful, interesting and attractive UI designs.

What is an UX designer? If you want to become an excellent UX designer, first of all you need to know what an UX designer is. Moreover, what’s the requirements for being an UX designer? What skills are necessary for them? What do they have to do in daily life? What are their responsibilities?

Once upon a time, if you said the word “design”, the odds were overwhelmingly likely you were talking about graphic design. But nowadays, the digital world is becoming increasingly more complicated and a lot of new job positions appearing, which lead to confusion for people outside or new to the design industry. Here’s a quick overview on What is UX design? What is UI design? What is Interaction Design and what is Information Architecture in this article to help you understand what they mean.

Want to get some inspirations for app UI design? Let's get some ideas from the insights of various app design styles and user app experiences. 

Over the years, we’ve come across hundreds of online user experience design blogs and resources. For the knowledge and advice on the web are free of charge, we are able to learn user experience design at anytime anywhere with ease. Below, we have put together the top 20 UX design blogs 2018 and resources (in no particular order) to help you understand the field of user experience and beyond. If you know of a user experience blog or resource that we have missed and you feel it is worth a mention, please add your own suggestions in the comments area.

If you haven’t been immersed in iOS interface design, you might look at Apple’s icons and think that they’re just a rounded square or a ‘roundrect’. If you’ve been designing icons, you know that they’re something different and may have heard the word squircle used (mathematical intermediate of a square and a circle). And if you’re an Industrial Designer, you recognize this as a core signature of their hardware products.

Ever since iOS 7, app icons went from being rounded squares to something more complex and refined. While everyone gets that Apple pays attention to the most minute details, not everyone sees the obvious logic behind this seemingly small change. If you’ve spent time tweaking curves in Autodesk’s Alias Studio surfacing software, software that Apple uses, you understand why right away. The answer is consistency. Apple has created design consistency between their hardware and software.

Considering Material Design for your next project? Please, think again.

What the design guidelines like Material Design (MDG hereafter) has tried to achieve was first to serve the interests of google, which it was created for and by. Then, and consequently, it was to create a sort of web-literacy for the end-consumers of WWW. This web-literacy means basically creating habits of usage for people that consume basic every day information and go around in different platforms meanwhile, without continuously consuming and producing data.

The World Wide Web is a giant jungle. Everything is just a noise factor in an infinitesimal cosmos, just as is in the nature itself.

Let’s first deconstruct why Material UI is not a good fit for most applications, well at least for the rest of the 21st century.

In the previous post, I introduced 25 Best Personal Website Design Examples and Resources for Your Inspiration. Are you ready to start your own personal website? Do not give up for the excuses like that I am too busy or I can not code. Here, I will recommend 25 best HTML and WordPress personal website templates, mostly free, to show you how to create a personal website without any effort.

Gradient refers to the mysterious and romantic color transition of an object from bright to dark, deep to shallow, or from one color to another. At the very beginning when the flat design has just risen, designers were keeping away the gradient in design. However, since Instagram changed the logo from classic Polaroid camera to a brightly colored flat icon, the gradient in app design is gradually making a comeback.

The year of 2017 will see more and more people make UX design as their careers. Before stepping into this new world, it’s necessary to have an overall view of user experience design. In this article I will introduce UXD to you comprehensively, from its history to its benefits, and most of the ideas are based on Wikipedia’s explanation on “User Experience design”.