Travelnaut is a Cyprus-based travel tech startup, offering one of the largest travel information hubs on the internet. What’s interesting about their product is that almost all of the content presented is generated by AI, before being curated by humans for accuracy and consistency. One may wonder how a company like this could benefit by prototyping – Travelnaut’s design team was happy to share their insights! As is the case with many other companies in the wider travel industry, Travelnaut’s website comprises a large variety of images and other visual content. While that works really well on ..read more

Connecting with peers, getting inspiration, sharing or gaining knowledge, and finding new job opportunities are the main motivations to attend design conferences or meetups. After being locked up for a couple of years, without many travel or networking possibilities, physical events are fully back on track.  Here is a non-exhaustive list of events we believe every digital designer, UX professional, or product manager should attend this upcoming year, regardless of their seniority.  January Design Matters Mexico When: Jan 25-26, 2023 Where: Mexico City, Mexico, and Online Design Mat ..read more

You’ve heard and read about no-code everywhere, from minor tech blogs to big magazines and news portals with global reach. Some say no-code applications are the very future of the software industry. Others go one step further, claiming it’s the way to go for the tech industry as a whole. Still, it’s 2022, and most available solutions are not even built with a low-code approach. This makes it hard to evaluate your options, understand the ever-changing landscape, and weigh your opportunities and limitations. This article aims to provide a quick overview of where no-code is today, as well as nu ..read more

When was the last time you had a seemingly interesting product, website, or design idea but didn’t exactly know how to go about it? The road from putting an idea into words or visuals to convincing people it’s worth their time can often be long and intimidating. Prototyping appeared as a solution to this problem and quickly gained ground across many industries. Seeing as the demand for prototyping only kept growing, it came as no surprise that new features and capabilities started flooding the market. One of them was the appearance of templates, which are nowadays considered a staple of the ..read more

Spring might be already halfway over, but the design landscape is not even nowhere near running out of new ideas and sources of inspiration! This month we are focusing on mobile interaction designs that increase efficiency, particularly in regard to traditionally manual processes, such as browsing for products, performing bookings, or exploring investment options. 1. Shop navigation by Denys Sergushkin Everyone loves online shopping! Navigating through countless filters to find something of interest, however, tends to become tedious fast. This concept aims to improve the e-store user experie ..read more

There hasn’t been a dull moment of 2022 yet, and we could all use an infusion of creativity. Let’s jump right into our latest roundup of the best mobile app designs.  1. Move by NPE Team To-do apps have become commonplace, but Move is a new entrant to the market that takes a different approach by encouraging group collaboration through gamification. It animates the process of completing tasks with a cute alpaca that users can dress up with digital accessories that they accumulate by completing tasks. Overall, the mobile app design is simple, effectively encourages action, and has helpfu ..read more

It’s hard to believe that yet another month is almost under our belts, and despite the turmoil that is impacting every corner of the world, designers have put their creativity to good use to inspire us all. This month we bring you some mobile interaction designs that will give you ideas, whether you’re tinkering with transportation, finance, or analytics idea currently. 1. Spending Bubbles by Honcharov Maxim There are countless fintech apps out there that try to help users visualize and improve their spending, but none accomplish the task quite like this concept. It adds up all monthly spend ..read more

Strong prototypes are essential to building products that your target market will love. To understand more about how the best in the business test prototypes, we reached out to design and engineering leaders to round up the top ways to test prototypes with customers and stakeholders to produce better products. It’s important to start with the reality that teams need to lead up to prototype testing. They might start by testing wireframes to validate their overall business idea and later test prototypes to see what product tweaks are needed. The point of prototyping is to create a feedback loo ..read more

With another month coming to an end, we again look to the mobile interaction designs that have been keeping designers productive even when the news cycles seem to be overwhelmed with negative stories.  1. Sleeper – Meditation App by Atuka for UBANI Meditation apps are all the rage because they help us find peaceful moments in a constantly in motion world. This mobile interaction design mixes the perfect combination of animation, emojis, and streaks to incentivize more mindfulness each day. The statistics page neatly displays a calendar, highlighting the days when the user meditated in y ..read more

In early 2020, we were told to stay home due to a virus no one seemed to know much about. At first, we packed up our laptops and braced for a few weeks away from the office. Although the pandemic continues to stretch on longer than we could ever have imagined, the skills and tools we tapped into to make remote work successful overnight have taught us some important lessons.  Collaboration in the pandemic required every employee to learn new things and stretch their comfort zones, even getting used to the occasional cat walking strutting across a teammate’s screen. So what exactly have w ..read more