Onething.Design has been steadily staking its claim to being the best UX/UI design agency in India. This is mirrored with the accolades that are being rewarded to our studio and projects alike. While what pushes our designers is the pursuit of making bigger and better designs everyday, under the likes of clients such as RBL, […]
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UI Gradients: The Complete Guide
To old-school designers, the word ‘gradient’ conjures up horrid images of early Microsoft PowerPoint word art. However, UI gradients have come a long, long way from then, and are probably used in more places than what you may imagine, to great effect. One of the principles of UI we stand by at Onething is ‘less […]
Information Architecture & Its 8 Principles
Many people face difficulty in attempting to define the meaning of user experience design. Most likely, it’s due to the field being so vast, and all encompassing that it’s simple for one to get lost in the shuffle of everything which falls under the umbrella term. Information architecture is certainly something which can complicate the […]
UI Tips to Design the Perfect Form
Filling out forms can often be considered as busywork. However, a good UI designer will be able to turn an otherwise chore-like activity into something either efficient enough that the user doesn’t think about it too much, or engaging enough that the user actively enjoys doing it. Form UI design is something that can be […]
10 Things to Consider When Designing UX for Apps
With the world striving towards a purely digital future, the importance of UX design cannot be understated. In particular, the rise of mobile devices has placed a spotlight on designing UX for apps, which is arguably now more important than ever. In fact, studies conducted by IMPACT suggest that the top 10 UX leaders in […]
5 Design Tips to Make the Perfect Login Page
Login screens are not typically considered exciting parts of any UI, in fact, they are often the least thought about, seen as a mere gateway to get in and out of as quickly as possible. However, a great login UI truly stands out, and makes for a recognizable symbol which can speak volumes about your […]
5 Figma Plugins That Can Make Your Design More Accessible And Inclusive
Design thinking as a discipline has evolved over the last decade. Confined to the creative acumen of a select few in the past, design has never been a team sport. However, collaborative interface design tools such as Figma have enabled different cross-functional teams to join the design conversation and contribute holistically. “If we use our […]
Laws of UX
Every human action includes an interaction. Whether this involves calling someone over the phone or cooking a meal in your kitchen, every activity has been designed by a human being for the rest of the race. All these interactions have been designed keeping in mind the visual aesthetics, ease of use, and general utility. Similarly, […]
Top 10 Books for UX and UI
User experience, and user interface design are relatively newer in comparison to their contemporaries in the present design space, however, this doesn’t mean that the knowledge in this field is in its infancy. There are thousands of articles, papers and dissertations which have been published regarding these fields, but today, our focus is on the […]
Top 5 UX UI Software Every Designer Should Know
UI and UX design are two of the disciplines which have flourished in the information age. It’s a requirement for any company in the digital space to keep these essentials in mind at all times, in order to be competitive in what is a saturated space. UX designers with an eye for carefully curating experiences […]
The New Onething- A UX UI design company
With the experience of designing 100 + products, we thought it would be pretty easy for us to rebrand and redesign ourselves. But boy, were we wrong? For a seasoned team of fine designers, with several awards up our sleeves; it was honestly quite challenging but super fun. I think we as ‘experience designers’ are […]
UI & UX Best Practices To Ace The Micro-Delivery Service Design
Introduction The urban residential landscape is unevenly developed. Some neighbourhoods are plush with all the latest amenities while the residents who reside in upcoming localities struggle with access to services. Many consumers live in a locality with no nearby mom and pop grocery shops; these consumers struggle to replenish daily household items. As a result, […]
A comprehensive guide to UX research
UX research is essentially a study of human behaviour. User experience research as a discipline attempts to understand subtle nuances of how people are wired, how they approach products and services and what eventually draws them to things they use. To achieve this understanding, UX research makes use of many different methodologies, tools and fields […]
How to Build a UX Design Career
The business landscape has undergone a landslide change. Brick and mortar stores and retail establishments are no longer considered the most accessible consumer touchpoints; the window to the user’s soul is now the mobile phone. This change in user behavior has also catapulted many careers into prominence, one of which is UX design. As per […]
Digital Lending – Insights and Learnings From Interviewing Indian Millennials
We had to build a virtual credit card in the digital lending space targeted at the older/working ‘Millennials’- the single, most valuable cohort that brands around the world are trying to collectively court. Generation X or ‘millennials’, as they are popularly referred to, are slowly emerging as the highest spenders across a variety of consumer […]
Top 5 Principles of UX Design
User experience design is a product-specific discipline. User Experience design is the language of interaction between users and the products they use. It is concerned with understanding each layer of user perception and decision-making. Before embarking on a product journey, it’s important to know who we are building for, what purpose does it serve and […]
Dashboard Design – Everything you need to know
We live in a world where thoughts, tools, and technologies that get things done faster are celebrated! Hence, when it comes to data-based decision making, dashboards are the messengers that report progress around the clock. Hence, dashboard design is extremely critical. But what are dashboards? A dashboard is a graphical summary of the key information […]
UX best practices
The user experience design (UX) ideology has changed over the last decade as websites and apps have become more deeply entrenched in our lives. As a result, UX has also evolved from being a discipline that enables user convenience to a discipline that is shaping user behavior in general, not just on the web. Let’s […]
What does a UI Designer do?
As we’ve mentioned before in our article on Top 10 questions around UX and UI, User Interface design revolves around the various screens and sensory touch points through which a user engages with the application. Hence the UI design process will differ from product to product depending on the user we’re hoping to cater to. […]
What is UX and UI Design?
Let’s start with the basics. As the name suggests User experience (UX) and User Interface (UI) design are concepts that capture the entire lifecycle of the product’s interaction with the user. UX and UI are often used in conversation interchangeably, but they are not the same thing. Let’s understand the difference. User Experience Design (UX) […]
ROI of UX – Benefits of UX and UI Design
UX/ UI design is the language of communication between a user and a product. Good experience design is able to create a win-win situation for all the involved stakeholders. It’s able to generate revenue for the businesses, solve the user problems, and also contribute to improving the quality of life. As more and more products […]
UX UI Design Services: How to get clients
Everybody loves Shark Tank. Watching young innovators pitch their creations to a group of investors makes for some very good television. However, in real life, most of us cringe at the idea of pitching our ideas in front of anyone. As UX/UI designers, most of us assume that good design should just sell itself. It […]
Principles of User Interface Design
The defining quality of great interface design is the fact that it goes unnoticed by the users. UI design exists for one reason and one reason only – to facilitate user interaction through beautiful, easy to use interfaces. Most UI designers follow a few basic rules of the discipline to create interfaces that allow ease […]
What does a UX Designer do?
Every product must fulfill an underlying human need. User experience design is a process of decoding these needs and translating them into products that satiate this need. Everything from drinking a beverage out of a cola bottle to checking in your luggage at the airport is experience design. As a discipline, UX design anticipates the […]
UI Best Practices
Elements on the user interface are often considered the defining factor of the most popular websites or apps in use today. Unlike UX, interface design is a visible, distinguishable and tangible part of the UI design. A good UI makes the product experience more memorable, distinguishable and relatable to the target users. What separates a […]