Well , so I have been into photoshop for more than 4 years now.Al these years I used to do works like manipulation and all.I have never been into ui/ux design. What actually is it ? Can anyone explain with examples and the softwares used ?

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Why I feel Medium is great place to build your Design Portfolio and showcase your UX and Design Thinking skills

Aug’17 I enrolled in Interaction Design Foundation(IDF) and completed five of its courses in three months. To get practical hands-on I then completed Freelance Web Design course on Udemy, and have written more about it here.Soon I started participating in design contests on 99Designs and submitted two designs. But soon realized that it is better to build portfolio and start approaching for work instead of putting too much time and energy on crowd-sourcing design contests.I was looking for a better way to create a portfolio. I did not want to just put out my design on Dribbble and Behance. I wanted to put my thoughts and research which goes behind the actual design and explain the process. This approach was inspired by The Dribbblisation of Design, special and heartfelt thanks to Paul Adams. I still go through this article every now and then to make sure I do not fall into this trap.Luckily I came across Portfolio Principles by Martijn van den Broeck and following the lead I started working on mine, Portfolio - Vikrant Singh. Since I saw many people talking about design, I thought to introduce this new way of building the portfolio and putting oneself out.Let me know your thoughts on this!

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Neha Verma Experience the world of UX :)

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Kuldeep Sharma Curious about UX and Design

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UX/UI is a term that has been floating around for 5-6 years now. Most of the Web Designers, Front-end Designers are now called UX/UI Designers. Although, UX has been around for as long as any design came into this world, it was not much talked about. It's in these last 5-6 years UX has been given importance over plain UI/Visual design.

Understanding UX/UI can be difficult but I would like a share an alternative method. Consider film-making, it has three stages - Pre-production, Production and Post-production. In software design, UX is like pre-production. It begin with gathering requirements, research, personas, data flows, wireframes, etc. This stage is to prepare for the product you are about to design. Then comes UI or the production stage. Here you create the mockups, the design using the structure you built in the UX stage. It utilizes skills like typography, colors, layout, etc. The main purpose is to create a visual interface to delight the user. Finally, the third stage is post-production which is again a part of UX. In this stage, you test you UX/UI design through various testing methods. The result data will be analysed again in the first stage of UX.

UX/UI is a cycle where you repetetively improve your product using the three stages. The successful products in market follow a strict iteraction cycle providing the user a better experience each time.

UX has gained popularity because it asks you to understand the human factor of the user and empathise with him. Provide a product with great experience. Learn from the mistakes, user feedbacks and repeat.

Hope, my answer helps you understanding the process. Would appreciate comments.

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