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Tools for AI Design

This past weekend on CES 2017 we saw an explosion of AI integration devices from Fridges to toasters or even entire homes with hidden speakers. Google home and Alexa are on the top of the competition at this point with their new AI assistants speakers and we can see these integrations getting bigger and bigger every day. As a User Experience designer, I can't deny the excitement to create new experiences using AI and I decided to make a list of resources to start with VUI. 

Google Assistant

Google assistant API gives you enough information to start with your own little project. Here you can get conversation basics, How to craft a conversation and more.  If you own a google home is a lot of fun 

https://developers.google.com/actions/design/

Alexa skills kit and voice design

Amazon Alexa has a well-detailed section about how to start designing for Alexa the do and don't and the best voice practices for design.

https://developer.amazon.com/public/solutions/alexa/alexa-skills-kit/docs/alexa-skills-kit-voice-design-best-practices

Siri kit

Siri was one the first AI we all saw from apple almost 5 years ago. I think Siri continues learning and growing in the community and now with open API developers and designers can create better experiences 

https://developer.apple.com/sirikit/

API.AI

This is a great platform to start developing and designing new AI conversations. Is very simple and you can create new conversations in minutes and start playing. 

https://api.ai/

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The Ultimate Guide for Hiring UX Designers

The fledgling world of user experience can be a mystery for the uninitiated: design processes vary from team to team, job titles are often inconsistent, and UX artifacts don’t always demonstrate a talent’s expertise. In fact, leaders in the field don’t necessarily agree what the roles include or what title they should be given.

All things that can make hiring a UX expert a nightmare.

That’s why we created this handy dandy UX Hiring Guide, perfect for helping you figure out what kind of UX pro you need to add to your team and how to evaluate candidates once you’ve got them in your office lobby.

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source: vitamintalent

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Design Better UX with UI patterns

The most interesting book on UX right now. This book brings a lot of interesting topics and a lot of great information for the UX enthusiast. This is a book created by the wonderful company UXpin. I hope you enjoy!

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Robinhood app

The robin hood app is a stock market service that lets you buy and sell shares for free.  The service is great and the user experience is awesome.  With just a touch of a button I can trade or buy shares in seconds.  I think the designers on robin hood did a neat job on this application is very easy to understand and easy to follow.  I really like the thought of using the background as aware of the market status, For example if the app is white the user know’s the market is open and if is black the market is close. Iv’e been studying robin hood for a while and I can tell you everyday I use it, I feel more in love with the application.

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Mint iOS app Sketch Mockup

 Mint is a popular service helping people manage their money, pay bills and track credit score. Now you can play with this Mint iOS App concept in Sketch

 

Mint is a popular service helping people manage their money, pay bills and track credit score. Now you can play with this Mint iOS App concept in Sketch

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Windows 10 vectors UI for Sketch 3

Vector Design for Windows 10 UI on Sketch 

Windows 10 UI made on sketch 3  by Jason Gonzalez 

File Included: Windows UI, File explorer icon, Word icon, Excel icon, One Note icon, Power Point icon, Outlook icon, One drive icon, Twitter icon, Xbox icon, Music icon, Videos icon, Calculator icon, Settings icon, Money icon, Spotify icon, Skype icon, Dribble icon, Evernote icon, Mail icon, Pay pal icon, Windows store icon, News icon, Power icon, Documents icon, Cortana and app apps. 

Enjoy! 

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A great list of free resources you should know

This is a list of resources that are not only awesome, but free to use.

Business + Marketing

A. FREE WEBSITE + LOGO + HOSTING + INVOICING

B. FREE BUSINESS / PROJECT NAME GENERATORS

C. WRITING / BLOGGING

D. FIND (TRENDING) CONTENT (IDEAS)

E. FREE SEO + WEBSITE ANALYZERS

F. FREE IMAGE OPTIMIZERS

G. FREE IMAGE EDITORS

  • Canva: Amazingly simple graphic design for bloggers.
  • Pixlr: Pixlr Editor is a robust browser photo editor.
  • Skitch: Get your point across with fewer words.
  • Easel.ly: Empowers anyone to create & share powerful visuals.
  • Social Image Resizer Tool: Create optimized images for social media.
  • Placeit: Free product mockups & templates.
  • Recite: Turn a quote into a visual masterpiece.
  • Meme Generator: The first online meme generator.

H. COLLECT & SEND EMAILS FOR FREE

I. FREE SOCIAL MEDIA + COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT + SURVEYS

J. A/B TESTS & GROWTH HACKING

  • Petit Hacks: Acquisition, retention, & revenue hacks used by companies.
  • Optimizely: One optimization platform for websites and mobile apps.
  • Hello Bar: Tool for A/B testing different CTAs & power words.
  • GrowthHackers: Unlocking growth. Together.

Design + Code

A. FREE DESIGN RESOURCES

B. COLOR PICKERS

C. INSPIRATION

D. FREE STOCK PHOTOGRAPHY

Some hand-picked some free photo packs:

E. FREE TYPOGRAPHY

F. FREE ICONS

G. USEFUL STUFF

Work & Productivity

A. BACKGROUND SOUND TO FOCUS

  • Noisli: Background noise & color generator.
  • Noizio: Ambient sound equalizer for relax or productivity.
  • Defonic: Combine the sounds of the world into a melody.
  • Designers.mx: Curated playlists by designers, for designers.
  • Coffitivity: Stream the sounds of a coffee shop at work.

B. AVOID DISTRACTION

  • Self Control: Mac: free application to help you avoid distracting websites.
  • Cold Turkey: Windows: temporarily block yourself off of distracting websites.

C. ORGANIZE & COLLABORATE

  • Trello: Keeps track of everything.
  • Evernote: The workspace for your life’s work.
  • Dropbox: Free space up to 2GB.
  • Yanado: Tasks management inside Gmail.
  • Wetransfer: Free transfer up to 2GB.
  • Drp.io: Free, fast, private and easy image and file hosting.
  • Pocket: View later, put it in Pocket.
  • Mailtoself: An iOS extension to mail notes to yourself from any app.
  • List.ly: Discover and create great lists.
  • Markticle: Mark your reading progress in articles for later.

D. DIGITAL NOMADS & REMOTE WORKING

Discover & Learn

A. DISCOVER TOOLS & STARTUPS

B. BUILD TOGETHER

C. LEARN

D. NEWSLETTERS THAT DON’T SUCK

E. USEFUL

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UX ideas to improve Facebook

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Facebook is a great inspiration for designers like me. Millions of people use it constantly and even the least technological ones know how to handle it. However — the platform still has some simple UX features it’s missing to improve its User Experience. 

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The Best Podcast for designers

The Best Podcast for designers

A great List of my favorite podcast for designers. I hope you enjoy listening! 

1. Every Thursday Paul Boag and Marcus Lillington are joined by a variety of guests to discuss a range of web design related topics. The show is fun, informative and quintessentially British! With content for designers, developers and website owners, you can be sure it will have something for everybody no matter their experience.

Boagworld

2. Join Matt McInerney, Andy Mangold & Dan Auer every week for a conversation about a broad range of topics through the lens of design.

On the Grid

3. The award winning Big Web Show features special guests and topics like web publishing, art direction, content strategy, typography, web technology, and more. It's everything web that matters.

The Big Web Show

4. Interviews with the world’s experts on the past, present and future of the web. Hosted by Jen Simmons, The Web Ahead is your shortcut to keeping up.

The Web Ahead

5. A weekly discussion show about the business end, the sharp end of web, design and creative industries.

Unfinished Business

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40 free resources designers need for 2015

40 Free Resources for Designers 

A Good collection of designers resources to create amazing projects. Here is a list of great resources including sites, PSD. files, actions, UI elements, mock and more. Totally free and ready to download.

 

1. Icons for your website, iPhone mock up or PSD’s for your landing page

Fribbble

2. Behance background template.

Behance project template

3. More free PSD files, blurred background or UI elements.

psddd.co

4. This is a site that I go to. It’s perfect for some visual inspiration!

COLOURlovers

5. From rocks, sky to trees. Very handy when it comes down to matte painting!

CG textures

6. Subtle Patterns have a diverse gallery from around 400 patterns for you to download.

Subtle Patterns

7. Webydo lets you design a website for free – without code.

Webydo

8. Guides to Web design, so here is a simple solution.

GuideGuide

9. make gradients look more smooth.

No more banding

10. make your own grid paper that you can print!

Gridzzly

11. This tool resizes and optimizes your icon designs into all formats needed for iOS and Android mobile app.

Makeappicon

12. With Perfect Effects 3, you’ll find intuitive and powerful tools that make it easy to add effects.

Perfect Effects 3 

13. Use Cut & Slice to export your assets to different devices in seconds. 

Cut & Slice

14. free Photoshop extension of a collection of seven scripts that make tedious job easier.

Layrs Control 2

15. Hexy allows you to use the Eyedropper tool to simply click on the color of the object you’re after and copies it directly to your clipboard.

Hexy

16. Seen a font in use and want to know what it is? Submit a screenshot to WhatTheFont to find the closest matches in its database.

WhatTheFont!

17. Typewolf shows fonts in use on actual websites, as well as background info about the font and personal recommendations for similar fonts.

Typewolf

18. Size Marks is a helpful Photoshop script for Web designers and front-end engineers.

Size Marks

19. Velositey lets you design a website within seconds in Photoshop, letting you pick from several templates and modules.

Velositey Version 2

20. Search for an icon and click to create a new layer shape which you can easily edit.

FontAwesomePS

21. With LiveShare PS you can now broadcast any Photoshop document to as many people as you want through an instant LiveShare meeting. If you make a change to your Photoshop document, the tool will instantly see your changes in the LiveShare meeting—you don’t even have to hit the save button!

Liveshare PS

22. Share your design instantly within Photoshop using Layer Hero’s Photoshop Share plugin.

Photoshop Share plugin

23. Prisma brings them consistently to all supported applications.

Prisma

24. The best Lorem Ipsum generator plugin for Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign and Dreamweaver.

Free Lorem Ipsum Generator

25. Helps you build your Behance portfolio presentations in a click with a free PSD File and PS Action.

Free Behance Presentation Builder

26. A simple Photoshop plugin to translate your text layers to a different language.

Kaku

27. A nice 13-filter pack that replicates the app Instagram for Photoshop.

Instagram Filters

28. Recreate a VSCO kind of effect within Photoshop. Have fun!

VSCO Cam Effect in Photoshop Tutorial

29. Social Kit by Made by Source covers images, profile pictures and ad banners for social media in a free up-to-date Photoshop plugin.

Social Kit

30. Free Mobile UI elements PSD files by designer Chrometaphore.

Mobile UI Blueprint psd files

31. Free Images provides over 395,000 stock photos to download.

Free Images

32. The largest user interface design database in the world, with over 46,608 UI elements to download.

UI Cloud

33. Mock Up Zones have great collection of free Mock Ups for you to download – from iPads, iPhones, business cards to shirts.

Mock Up Zones

34. Macbook Air and Thunderbolt Display PSD’s free for you to download by designer Jozef Mak.

Macbook Air and Thunderbolt Display

35. inspiration for many 3D artists and full of wonderful tutorials.

Greyscalegorilla 3D Tutorials

36. Vray materials for for example Cinema 4D, this is the site to go to.

Vray Materials

37. This extension for Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator searches thousands of assets, including popular icon packs, without having you to leave Photoshop or Illustrator.

Blendme

38. this site provides you free beginner courses for several Adobe programs.

AdobeKnowHow

39. A great site offering you free tutorials for several programs for you to learn. For beginners, but also for the professionals. You can never know enough.

Tuts+

40. Pixeden is a site not to be missed in this list and provides you a great collection of ‘freebies’ from mock ups, templates to text effects.

 Pixeden

Original post: TNW

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