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Here’s How Designers Would Fix Amazon

Here’s How Designers Would Fix Amazon

Amazon is woefully lacking when it comes to user-centered design. So Co.Design asked a top design studio to rethink it.

https://www.fastcodesign.com/90169636/we-asked-designers-to-fix-amazon-this-is-their-vision?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social

This is the Forrester report the article is referencing:

How To Beat Amazon
by George Colony, CEO

https://go.forrester.com/blogs/how-to-beat-amazon/

UX Mini Hackathon Series with a Real Startup Client @ NYU EdTech Accelerator

UX Mini Hackathon Series with a Real Startup Client @ NYU EdTech Accelerator

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Looking to practice your UX skills, learn, meet people and help a real startup improve education? Welcome to UX Mini Hackathon Series.

What is the UX Mini Hackathon?

Our UX mini hackathons are short one-evening events featuring real organizations that provide problems that can be addressed with design and technology. Attendees collaborate in teams, brainstorm and prototype their solutions and then present back to the organizations. Teams are provided with feedback from clients and mentors and can win in various categories (and get prizes, if available).

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ux-mini-hackathon-series-with-a-real-startup-client-nyu-edtech-accelerator-tickets-45456018174

A Crash Course in UI Design

UI vs. UX

If you’ve done any kind of research about software design, you’ve probably heard of the terms “UI” and “UX”. But what separates UI from UX?

https://blog.marvelapp.com/crash-course-ui-design/?utm_source=weekly-newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=marvel-newsletter-2017-10-24&utm_term=

 

Apple & Google Design Guidelines

Apple Design Site
https://developer.apple.com/design/

Apple Human Interface Guidelines
Get in-depth information and UI resources for designing great apps that integrate seamlessly with Apple platforms.

https://developer.apple.com/ios/human-interface-guidelines/overview/themes/

Google Material Design
Material Design is a unified system that combines theory, resources, and tools for crafting digital experiences.

https://material.io/

Material Design Guidelines
We challenged ourselves to create a visual language for our users that synthesizes the classic principles of good design with the innovation and possibility of technology and science. This is material design. This spec is a living document that will be updated as we continue to develop the tenets and specifics of material design.

https://material.io/guidelines/