In the digital era of today we can see a lot of people are stuck on the digital screens most of their time. Let’s understand on how these products are not just habit forming but addictive in nature. — What cigarette, hard liquor, heroin and crack have in common is they are all addictive in nature. You simply don’t want to stop it. These are edible form of drugs available to us. In the world today the technology we are designing are shaping up and resulting in digital addiction.

We will get into what is design thinking and ways to create innovative ideas in creating best possible solution to carter the needs of the users. — What is Design Thinking? Design thinking is a human centered process of understanding the users needs and bringing creative ideas which can make more value to develop products, services, process and organization/business. It is a creative way to solve problems. The instinct of evidence based on their need and proof of the users observation/data…

Gatsby team recently introduced a new feature to their framework called incremental builds which trims down build time significantly. Here will experiment with its implementation. — Creating static websites or setting up JAM(Javascript, API and Markup) application Gatsby is an amazing toolkit for both. There are tons of plugins we can leverage the power of using Gatsby. There isn’t much problem of using Gatsby for our website or personal projects. It handles well with decent number…

There are a tons of companies who practice UX design. In this article we will shed some light on the stages and the understand what it takes to deliver better UX. — Great software products does not happen by accident, it takes rigorous and continuous effort to make one. It definitely is the team work indeed to make this possible. This is also a result from the combination of usability, functionality and aesthetics that helps to convert a visitors to possible customers…

A native way to render browser based images responsively — In today’s digital age, 1000s of devices types are being used daily. As developers and designers, we are responsible to ensure our product works seamlessly across all devices, without a glitch. Responsive design isn’t an option, it’s a need. When developing a responsive web design (RWD), there are tons of…

In this article we will dig in what and why data-driven design is a better approach in delivering a great user experience. We will also learn why this helps in making our decision more concrete. — “As designers, we need to accept and embrace the world of metrics and use their amazing powers to change the way we’re doing things.” — Jared Spool We deal with a tremendous amount of data these days. These data come from user interaction after all. We have a vast number…

Here we will explore how we can do Web Scraping using NodeJS with Puppeteer. We will scrape a web page using the automation with Javascript. — Let’s assume we want to extract some information from the web. We still can copy the information we need from the desired website. But, what if we want to extract large amount of data quickly as possible. In that case we need some automation needed. There is where web scrapping…

Digital products are made to be operated by all people but we designers still don’t address and ensure all users have equal access to any digital product. — We consume the information from the internet where in 2019 we had 4.4 billion active internet users. As designers we design numerous of products but we definitely don’t think of designing with web accessibility in mind which creates inclusive flow of information to all the kind of users.

Here we will get into simple steps on how u can create your next website or blog with easily integrated content management and supercharge your website overall. — There has been lot of debate going on with the static site generators due to rise of JAMStack application. Despite the debate Gatsby has been widely used and have decent numbers of stars in Github. You can find the top static generators collection here.