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Ask AnywayA monthly column exploring collaborative teams, career survival and the heart and soul of good design practice.

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10 Ways To Add Delight To Your Website or App

Posted on March 29, 2013 by Benjamin Tollady in Design
A cake of delight

Ben Tollady is obsessed with designing websites that are not merely usable, but delightful.

So how does one create delight in a website or mobile app? Ben lists 10 approaches, backed up with a ton of examples.

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Why Sketchnoting Makes You A Better UX Designer

Posted on March 26, 2013 by Matthew Magain in Soft Skills
A little sketch that reads 'Free your mind, and the rest will follow.'

Where does sketchnoting fit into the design process? And why are UX Designers so drawn to creating visual notes?

Matt explores these questions and more. Could sketchnoting be the perfect platform for practicing core design skills?

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Sketchnotes from the Hargraves Institute’s Conference2013

Posted on March 20, 2013 by Matthew Magain in Soft Skills
Sketchnote of the closing panel at the Hargraves Institute Conference2013

Matt attended Conference2013 in Sydney last week, a conference dedicated to innovation, organised by the Hargraves Institute.

He took his notebook and created sketchnotes of some of the presentations.

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5 Illustrated Tips On How To Be A Better UX Designer

Posted on March 15, 2013 by Matthew Magain in Design
Do I look fat in this?

If you’re a regular subscriber to our newsletter, you’ll be familiar with the illustrated UX Quick Tip that we include in each issue.

Matt pulls together some of his favourite quick tips from past newsletters, including the corresponding illustration for each one.

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10 Lessons The Blues Brothers Can Teach Us About UX

Posted on March 12, 2013 by Matthew Magain in Design
The Blues Brothers

Matt divines lessons for UX Designers from one of his favourite movies, The Blues Brothers.

What do two black-suit-and-sunglass-wearing, cigarette-smoking, morally compromised musicians have to do with user experience design? As it turns out, quite a lot …

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Review: User Experience: The Ultimate Guide To Usability

Posted on March 8, 2013 by Matthew Magain in Analysis, Reviews
User Experience: The Ultimate Guide

In the second of our series of reviews of online UX courses, we look at a course claiming to be “the ultimate guide to usability”.

Is this just marketing hyperbole, or a deserving description of the content? Matt investigates…

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The 2013 User Experience Awards: Submit Your Project

Posted on March 5, 2013 by Matthew Magain in Design
An illustration of a UX Awards glass trophy

Have you ever heard of the User Experience Awards?

Matt hadn’t either, but as it turns out, they’re a thing—an annual juried event in New York City that celebrates exceptional digital user experiences.

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The Big, Fluffy “We Love Our Community” Post

Posted on March 1, 2013 by Matthew Magain in Culture
UX Mastery community

Once upon a time, the phrase “online community” meant you had a forum. Today, there are a ton of alternative tools that allows online communities to come together.

Matt delves beyond the tools to profile some of the individuals whose contributions to the UX Mastery community have made the biggest impact on him.

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