11 Oct 2020

Resources and Tools for Protoyping

Part 1

  1. http://www.usability.gov/how-to-and-tools/methods/prototyping.html
  2. http://www.telono.com/en/articles/lo-fi-vs-hi-fi-prototyping-how-real-does-the-real-thing-have-to-be/ 
  3. http://www.usabilityfirst.com/glossary/high-fidelity-prototype/
  4. http://www.atlargeinc.com/insights/high-fidelity-vs-low-fidelity-prototyping-web-design-and-app-development 
  5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91-JnTq3MhA
Tools 

Part 2

  1. https://uxmag.com/articles/what-a-prototype-is-and-is-not
  2. https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2014/10/the-skeptics-guide-to-low-fidelity-prototyping/
  3. http://www.usabilityfirst.com/glossary/low-fidelity-prototype/
  4. http://andrewchen.co/why-every-consumer-internet-startup-should-do-more-low-fidelity-prototyping/
  5. http://www.telono.com/en/articles/lo-fi-vs-hi-fi-prototyping-how-real-does-the-real-thing-have-to-be/
  6. http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/enterprise-solutions/prototyping-types-of-prototypes-14927
  7. http://www.usabilityfirst.com/glossary/horizontal-and-vertical-prototypes/
  8. http://marketblog.envato.com/grow-improve/creativity/introduction-sketch-ui-design/
  9. https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2011/12/the-messy-art-of-ux-sketching/
  10. http://www.slideshare.net/LaneHalley/how-to-draw-quick-useful-ui-sketches
  11. http://ui-patterns.com/blog/User-interface-sketching-tips-part-1
  12. https://uxmag.com/articles/storyboarding-in-the-software-design-process
  13. http://www.fastcodesign.com/1672917/the-8-steps-to-creating-a-great-storyboard
  14. http://www.slideshare.net/fgarofalo/users-story-ux-storyboarding

20 Sept 2020

Enhance your digital design creation with simple motion graphics

A few recomendations

  • LottieFiles is a powerful extension to export your AE animations instantly as Lottie JSON, GIF, MP4, or dotLottie format for web and mobile apps for easy implementation. It saves a great deal of time. Lottiefiles is best used for vector, motion, or icon animations.
  • Try Battleaxe’s AEUX extension by Adam Plouff to transfer files super easily between AE and AI, and vice versa.

Source: UX Magazine


12 Jun 2020

25 Examples of Lead Generation Forms That Convert in 2020

All of these examples are up-to-date forms used by leading brands and I’m going to explain why each of them works so well.


This will all make sense by the time we’ve looked at a few examples.

30 Mar 2020

Make Sure Your Text is Legible on All Screens

You may adjust the size of your headers (h1 tags) in either the Divi Customizer (under Typography) or module by module. To set the h2, h3, h4, h5 or h6 size, you will need to add this CSS into your child theme.

To begin with, the CSS for font sizes of headlines, which will work best on larger screens:
h2 {
font-size: 16px;
}

h3 {
font-size: 14px;
}

If you want to adjust the sizes on mobile, use this:

@media screen and (max-width:480px) {

h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6 {

font-size: 14px;
}
}

In my example above that would make all h tags the same height, so you may want to do this:

@media screen and (max-width:480px) {

h1 {
font-size: 14px;
}

h2 {
font-size: 12px;
}
}

etc.

BUT, what I think may make your life easier is if you use em’s. Okay, I hear you, how can that make your life easier if you don’t know what I am talking about. Here goes.

em’s are a unit of measurement. They are scalable based on the browser setting of the font size. If your browser’s default pixel size is set to 12px then 1em = 12 pixels. So 2em = 24 px or .5 em = 6px.
In my opinion, and please feel free disagree and to have at it in the comments below, it makes the most sense to use em’s when you have a gigantic headline – say 96 pixels in your hero image. On the phone that size would be ridiculous and by using an em you are scaling it to fit the mobile device.
Here is a great website that will help you convert the font sizes: https://websemantics.uk/articles/font-size-conversion/ It shows font size, em’s & %’s.


So your CSS would look like this:

h2 {
font-size: 2em;
}

h3 {
font-size: 1.5em;
}

I was asked for the CSS for font name, font weight and line height and I will add in color.

Color

color: green;

Or use the hex code #000, etc,

Underline text

text-decoration: underline;

Letter Spacing

letter-spacing: 3px;

Or use a negative in front of the number to decrease the width between letters (i.e. -3)

Line Height

line-height: 0.8; (small) or line-height: 1.8; (large)

text shadow

text-shadow: 3px 2px red;

font family:

font-family: “Times New Roman”, Georgia, Serif;

font weight:

p.normal {
font-weight: normal;
}

p.thick {
font-weight: bold;
}

p.thicker {
font-weight: 900;
}

If you would like to have your h2 tag be 24 pixels high, bold, New Times Roman and spaced out a little bit this is what you would use for your CSS:

h2 {
font-size: 2em;
font-weight: bold;
font-family: “Times New Roman”, Georgia, Serif;
letter-spacing: 3px;
}

Pain in the neck? I KNOW! The folks over at Elegant Themes have been saying for ages they are going to put all of this into the Theme Customizer. I reckon at some point it will happen.
In the interim, hope this helps. Happy designing.

(cr: https://elegantmarketplace.com/css-for-h2-h3-h4-h5-h6-for-the-divi-theme-on-mobile/)

Another read: https://www.woorank.com/en/edu/seo-guides/mobile-font-size

8 Mar 2020

Global Rebrand


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