When designing web and mobile apps, we aren’t fully delivering experiences that allow the user to control the interface in a way that makes sense to them. We talk about delighting the user and having empathy, but more often than not, we tend to miss the mark and deliver a frustrating experience. It's time that we consider giving the user more control with how they prefer the interface to function.
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Style Guide Driven Development: A How To Guide To Improve your Development Workflow
Style Guide Driven Development (SGDD) is a fairly new term I first heard from Nicole Sullivan’s talk about her experience on a project for Pivotal Labs. But thinking about some more, I realized SGDD is, at a high level, a practice many are already doing: developing components and documenting them in a style guide.

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Embrace 7 Principles of Universal Design for Better Website Design
People have been studying design for ages, but we rarely see much crossover in the design fields (e.g., graphic design, web/app design, interior design, industrial design, advertising, film). However, Web designers can learn a lot from other design approaches to create better, more inclusive experiences, and a strong foundation for lasting products.

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Live Style Guides for Teams, Powered by DocumentJS
A team with both designers and developers needs a simple resource to share a project's styles and best practices. DocumentCSS generates a Live Style Guide so style documentation evolves along with the project. This project was built with the belief that a united team goal does not change the needs of individual roles. Whether you're an engineer, a designer, or somewhere in-between: we're building this for you.

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Combining Documentation with Prototypes
UX designers have long used documentation as a means of communicating functionality and interaction for digital products. It has been successful for a long time and thousands of digital goods have been delivered using this process. However, as our industry evolves, so do our processes and tools. Documentation alone is no longer enough. And prototypes on their own, do not provide enough detail. Bitovi combines documentation with prototypes to deliver a comprehensive handoff experience and project archive.

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How a UX Designer Saves You Time and Money in Development
Make sure you’re building the right user interface before you build it. The old adage, "Measure twice, cut once" applies to digital projects, as well.
In this post, I'll explain the value of having a user experience designer from the perspective of our own process at Bitovi.

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The Coffee Shop User Experience Lab
In this article I'll explain a simple, fast way to perform user testing, even with no budget or time. A lot of people don't immediately see the value in doing user experience testing, partly because it has the perception of being an expensive hassle or just a waste of time. A client recently told me, "We're already behind on this project and need to get right to the mock-ups."

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Take a Step Back - Simple Tips to Quickly Check a Design for Usability
When it comes to creating user interfaces (UIs), user experience designers can get too close to the project and lose sight of basic usability. Sometimes you have to take a step back and obscure your view just enough to see potential problems that you might not notice otherwise. Here are some simple things you can do for a quick usability check. These tips are so easy, you'll find yourself doing them all the time.

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