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<h3>Graphic V/s UX/UI ?</h3>
Let’s understand the 5 major differences between UX/UI Designers and Graphic Designers.
Recently, I have been seeing many job descriptions adding mix up stuff and skills and confusing between the job roles and responsibilities.
1. Business V/S Visuals — A UX/UI Designers are not meant to be creative and visually pleasing but they rather focus on business solutions and making the products more easily usuable for the users rather the Graphic designer tends to add more visually apparent design for putting the imagination over the screen.
2. Collaboration — UX/UI designers collaborate closely with developers, product managers, and other team members, while graphic designers may work more independently.
3. Coding — UX/UI designers may have some knowledge of coding, while graphic designers do not typically need to know how to code.
4. User research — UX/UI designers conduct user research to understand user needs and behaviors, while graphic designers typically do not.
5. Tools — UX/UI designers may use specialized tools such as prototyping software, wireframing tools, and user testing platforms, while graphic designers typically use design software such as Adobe Creative Suite.
I hope everyone understand the difference and hire according to the needs. Both profile can help you achieve a lot but you also need a candidate who understands their role properly and what impact they can put over the company.
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Graphic V/s UX/UI ?

What is Lean UX? Lean UX is a user experience design methodology that emphasizes rapid iteration and collaboration with cross-functional teams. It’s based on the Lean Startup approach, which advocates for building and testing products quickly to validate assumptions and minimize waste. In Lean UX, the focus is on delivering value to users through a streamlined design process that involves continuous feedback and iteration. This means that designers, developers, product managers, and other stakeholders work together to create a shared understanding of user needs, prioritize features based on user feedback, and test designs early and often.
Why is Lean UX important for startups? Startups operate in a fast-paced and uncertain environment where resources are limited. To succeed, they need to be agile and responsive to user needs. This is where Lean UX comes in. By focusing on rapid iteration and collaboration, Lean UX helps startups:
1. Save time and money: By testing designs early and often, startups can identify and fix issues before they become costly problems. 2. Create a user-centered product: By involving users in the design process, startups can ensure that their product meets user needs and expectations. 3. Improve team collaboration: By working together on a shared vision and goals, cross-functional teams can build trust and improve communication.
How to implement Lean UX effectively Implementing Lean UX requires a shift in mindset and approach. Here are some key principles and practices to keep in mind: 1. Focus on the problem, not the solution: Start by defining the problem you’re trying to solve and understanding user needs. Avoid jumping to solutions before you have a clear understanding of the problem. 2. Collaborate with cross-functional teams: Involve stakeholders from different areas of the organization, including designers, developers, product managers, and customer support. 3. Use rapid prototyping and testing: Create low-fidelity prototypes and test them with users early and often. Use feedback to iterate and refine your designs. 4. Embrace ambiguity and uncertainty: Accept that you don’t have all the answers and be open to feedback and iteration. 5. Prioritize features based on user feedback: Use data and user feedback to prioritize features and make informed decisions about what to build next.
In conclusion, Lean UX is a valuable methodology for startups looking to create a user-centered product on a limited budget and timeline. By focusing on rapid iteration and collaboration, startups can save time and money, create a user-centered product, and improve team collaboration.
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How Lean UX can help?

Introduction
My name is Devesh Mathur and I’m UX Designer at Frendy. I recently enrolled in a workshop by a content creator which I have been following for a long time named UX Anudeep. I really love his energy and enthusiasm of teaching and how he using real-life examples to showcase.
Anudeep starts with a basic thing but ends up teaching you an advanced concept and its implementation. The most important lesson I learned with him is to unlearn the wrong things and applying a lot of laws rather than focusing on the users.
Design Thinking
He started with a question his workshop with a question “How does a Switch Works?” and from their everything keeps getting interesting. The main aim behind this was to understand the importance of asking the right question. After asking different questions like this he told us that guys the things you learned is known as design thinking and we all went “WOW”. As a UX designer I knew what design thinking was and where he was going but the examples and the way he was explaining didn’t now felt that we are learning such an important concept.
<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/360/1*H2eksjjRqCvZLlMTWvzMQg.jpeg"></figure>Making existing products better
This was one of my favourites exercise during the whole workshop. In this exercise we were given a screen where we have to think of why this screen looks like this and understand various aspects of and the fun part begins when Anudeep asks us to answer our own questions as if we were the UX designer of it. During these exercise we learned to clear our basics of UX design and apply basic common sense to understand the apps.
<h3>Are you meant for UX?</h3>
On the 4th day of the workshop there was something which was very crucial for each and every participant. Anudeep shared a Fig-Jam where we have to answer some questions which makes things clearer for us that what qualities a UX designer must hold and its responsibilities and most importantly are we made for UX or not. This exercise was meant to the people who are new to UX design and wants to explore into the field so this file made them aware about what they have to go through to become a UX designer and how their life will be after that. When you are pursuing a career, we have to understand that it’s not just a job it’s a lifestyle we adapt to and if we don’t enjoy what we are doing we won’t be able to exhale more.
<h3>Unlearn before learning</h3>
Before learning something new we must observe what we have learned till now and unlearn the stuff that is wrong. When we start learning something, we must take this perspective in our minds that we might be wrong at some points and a true student is the one which accepts his mistakes and improve on it. We have to unlearn in order to learn.
<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*KtZlzL71k9WLAo8qkB5oZg.png"></figure><h3>Fundamental of UX Principles</h3>
In the workshop we had were provided a Fig-Jam file with a heading of Fundamentals of UX Principle, these exercises were basically made for us to understand from the examples first then understand the principle behind it. In this we were given few screens from the famous apps and some questions related to their UI. The questions were simple but there was too much more behind it. Firstly, we were asked to answer it than Anudeep used to explain the logic behind it and why actually the UI looked that way and using this technique he taught us various laws of UX design.
<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/975/1*mV4EGbncC8yEzLfFujOrnw.png"></figure><h3>UX LAWS —</h3>
These are the 5 laws that were mentioned during the workshops –
1. Jakob’s Law — Users spend most of their time on other sites. This means that users prefer your site to work the same way as all the other sites they already know.
2. Hick’s Law — Hick’s Law is a simple idea that says that the more choices you present your users with, the longer it will take them to reach a decision.
3. Fitts Law — Fitts law states that the amount of time required for a person to move a pointer (e.g., mouse cursor) to a target area is a function of the distance to the target divided by the size of the target. Thus, the longer the distance and the smaller the target’s size, the longer it takes.
4. Doherty Threshold — “Doherty’s Threshold dictates that a user experience turns from painful to addictive after the system feedback time drops below 400ms.” Doherty suspected that was happening because a user was storing the series of steps he wanted to take in his working memory.
5. Zeigarnik Effect — named for the Soviet psychologist who studied the phenomenon, refers to the human tendency to focus more on uncompleted tasks than completed ones. The psychological tension provided by an incomplete state helps us recall any relevant information we might need to complete the task.
Following UI Tutorials
We created several UI’s throughout the 2-week workshop and the difficulty of them increased day by day but there were proper explanatory videos of Anudeep over Growth School website where everything was explained very clearly and with an easy pace.
Animating Prototypes — We were just not given the task to create UI but also to learn prototyping in Figma which helps us tell others how the screens will react when interaction is done by the users.
MEGA Webinar Learnings
· UX Design fundamental principles — With the introduction of the Mega Webinar which is of 4–4.5 hours long, we started with the principles of UX design and how existing apps use this. We were given a workbook to understand why the screen looks in a way and why it is preferable to the users. Then Anudeep explained everything with the help of UX principles and how the designers designed it in a way it is profitable for business as well as according to the user’s comfort.
· Low fidelity prototyping — Than once we are done with the understand of some UX principles it was time to become a bit practical. Anudeep told us to quickly sketch out a music app and its lyrics has a toggle like Spotify current UI, then we used Marvel app and created a wireframe to a low fidelity working paper prototype in just 13mins. In this practice we realized that how quickly we can show our team what ideas we have without wasting time on creating high fidelity prototypes using various software and all. The key is to save your time and firstly understand the users and team about what they actually require and create a proper problem statement.
· UI Design — Once we are done with paper prototyping we can create different variants of it with the companies design system and following different UX laws and everything but when we come on this stage it will be very easy for us to come to the solution as we now know what type of UI they are looking for. We practiced a lot on Figma as it is famous in the industry and very easy to use for the beginners also.
· Jacob Neilson’s 10 usability Heuristics — We were given several questions in a workbook were many questions were given and understanding those helped us learned fundamentals of UX.
<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*R1Z7xtrt6kjeC5AuT3Bb4A.png"></figure>o Consistency and Standards — We usually see that similar icons are used in different apps so that people don’t have to relearn what this icon means and what it does, so here the consistency is used by designer for easy understanding of the users through our app.
o Recognition rather than recall — The recent searches help us quickly see what we recently looked for instead having to remember what it was.
o User Control and Freedom — The — &amp; + buttons at check-out Screen help in quickly editing our order without having to go to the previous screen and repeat the process
o Visibility of System Status — The order status helps us know at what stage our order is keeping us informed about what’s going on.
o Help and Documentation — Users might have placed a wrong order. The option to cancel helps them quickly undo that error.
o Aesthetic and minimalist design — Too many details confuse us and we end up finding it hard to find the relevant information.
o Flexibility and efficiency of use — Users can customize what they want to order and thus make decisions faster.
o Match between system and real world — A Menu list is like the Menu card we commonly see at restaurants as well
o Error prevention — Grey is usually a color of inactivity &amp; looks contrast to colored and we hence know the menu item is unavailable and don’t try and order them. It also informs us about the next slot it will be available so that we can place the order then.
o Help user recognize, diagnose, and recover from error — In case we get lost or have other questions, the help tab gives us more information &amp; solutions
· High-fidelity prototyping — When learning high -fidelity prototyping we learned how to prototype in Figma but adding animation over CTA’s and making our UI look and feel better for the users. High-fidelity prototypes are computer-based, and usually allow realistic (mouse-keyboard) user interactions. High-fidelity prototypes take you as close as possible to a true representation of the user interface.
· Business impact of design — With the last exercise of the workshop we focused on the impact of design over business so that everyone can understand how a UX designer can affect the business and what does it takes to be profitable. We took example of Swiggy and we noticed that it only has a 60 seconds timer over the cancellation. The cancel option is not just a feature or something but it is a business need. We understand that if we give a longer time to cancel than after the package has been packed or in the way that if we give the option to cancel than the business will be affected because of that. As a UX designer we have to understand our value and how our research and decisions can make our business much more profitable.
· Hooked Model -
<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/991/1*XtX_fGOFDX2tiltzXAtPeQ.png"></figure>Anudeep explained the importance of hooked model and how it is used in the industry to make products which people like to use it daily and might get addicted too. And it is not bad for business if people get addicted using your app and as a UX designer if you can do this your value totally increases in the industry. For ex- Today people spend a lot of time on YouTube and Instagram reels as they have short attention span and it keeps feeding dopamine to our minds by giving unexpected content and also gives us feel to socialize from home.
Conclusion
It was a great learning experience from Anudeep and his enthusiasm towards teaching really inspires me to do more. Most important lesson I learned from him is to how important it is to understand the core basic and many people don’t do that. I again want to thank Growth School and Anudeep for such an amazing workshop. There were a lot more things I learned from the workshop and I would love to suggest everyone from UX industry must give it a go.
#Student4life
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Learnings from 2 weeks UX Design Kickstarter workshop by UX Anudeep

Being a UX Designer my day starts with the morning meeting where with the whole tech team I discuss about the updates and what new things we have to work on and plan our rest of the day after our senior allot us our tasks over Scrum. I am telling you this not because I want to show off my perfect routine or something but I want to tell you why we do this as the first thing in the morning.
Prioritizing your tasks is the most important skill a UX designer must know. We basically work on a problem statement and there is an important saying that you must solve one problem at a time so, prioritizing the problems is a must. Whether you are a designer or a developer or even if you are from any other profession, we must learn prioritizing our tasks and work on our time management which makes us more productive than others.
And seriously since I read more about this, I can understand why these routines of waking up at 5AM gets so many views over different platforms. Time management and prioritizing not only helps you complete your tasks but it also gives you your ME-TIME which helps us balance our work-life balance. And I am not saying to follow a particular routine or a person or it makes you perfect and you must do it rather I would say to be more productive and enjoy your work this helps a lot and you will also find out the things which might be going wrong with the daily processes.
In UX Design having a proper problem statement is the first task but what if you are given multiple problem statements, then you must sit with your team and prioritize them to understand what is more important and give your proper attention to that. Your team work comes handy here and if everyone is on the right track the whole tasks get less time to be completed and you meet your deadlines.
Coordinating with the team and planning a timeline makes your team more productive as everyone is aware of their task and by what time tasks has to be completed. Prioritization of the task mostly has been managed by the managers and they have to understand the potential of their team and according provide them with the work so they don’t get over burdened with the work or something and can complete their tasks comfortably.
When you follow a design process as a UX designer you must know how much time you have to devote at different stages which helps you achieve the deadline at time and work efficiently and effectively.
With the time saved you can give that time to learn new things which will help you grow more in the future or you can invest that time in yourself and have fun but the deal is to understand the meaning of your time and it is the most valuable asset and if you want to make it big this discipline with your time will show you a clear path and these habits will make you realize how much more you can achieve in a day.
So, kindly my lovely people trying managing your stuff if you want to become more productive because once you start utilizing your time, you’ll see how much self-improvement you have done and that is really addictive and the best dopamine rush your body can experience.
All the best!
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Most Important tip you will EVER get about UX Design!

As a UX Designer the question which comes to my mind daily is that if the UI doesn’t look good is it still a good UI ? And according to me if the UI gets the work done easily for both business and the users than it doesn’t matter how bad it looks it is giving you the sufficient outcome. It is a role of a UX designer to make their UI according to the information architecture of the product so that the business needs our applied correctly than according to the users make things feasible and less time consuming.
When we work for a firm or a company we have to work according to their needs first than the users. We have to understand the goals, vision and motivation of the company and what they want to express to the users. UI is a complicated field but UX with UI makes things easier and add sense to our design. You can say a UI without UX is a beauty without brains(no offense).
You know their is a law in UX named Aesthetic-usability effect refers to users’ tendency to perceive attractive products as more usable. People tend to believe that things that look better will work better — even if they aren’t actually more effective or efficient.
For example you see apple’s website that everything looks so classy and sleek which makes user feels that this is a great product but this don’t work everywhere.
Firstly, you have to understand the TG of your product and make them comfortable with the app or website so they can understand what we sell and how they could use it easily for their benefit. At this point it doesn’t matter how it looks but the more important part is, it gets the work done.
Secondly, Your UI should align with Business Architecture and the Information Architecture and sometimes we have to break every UX law and have to sacrifice our design for that.
When you design a UI you have to concern everyone with your product managers, developers and the stake holders and the harsh truth is you have to please these people before the users.
So, I think everything which looks aesthetically good designs maybe not be the best for the business but things which gets the work done should be the output of a UI/UX designer first.
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