Thursday, April 7, 2016

MQBE : jQuery Media Query Breakpoint Events Plugin

This small function creates JQuery events that are fired when you enter or leave a CSS media query state, for instance from desktop to tablet… etc. It’s useful when you need to start or stop some JS functionallity depending on MediaQuery changes / states.

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Robin Mastromarino - Portfolio

Robin Mastromarino's portfolio, UI/UX designer and HETIC student based in Paris.
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Highlight.js : Text highlighting plugin for jQuery

Highlight.js is a text highlighting plugin for jQuery.

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Daniel Eckler

Daniel Eckler

Awesome One Page redesign for digital entrepreneur Daniel Eckler. The projects feature a unique scrolling text effect over the imagery. Nice touch with the animated signature at the bottom and good to know it's built on WordPress too!

by Rob Hope via One Page Love

Wednesday, April 6, 2016

What’s Next for #SocialMedia: Anticipating Changes in the Online World - #infographic

What’s Next for Social Media Marketing: Anticipating Changes in the Online World - infographic

Social media has become a huge help in organizations when it comes to sharing ideas, collaborating online, handling business transactions, and building brands. With the advent of social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, reaching out to different types of audiences is now possible with just one click.

According to Statista, the number of social network users around the globe has reached 1.4 billion in 2012, and is expected to increase by 2.13 billion in 2016.

Nowadays, social media marketing is one of the most effective strategies used by businesses and professionals. With its ability to gain website traffic and interest through online content such as blogs, videos, and infographics, brands can be easily introduced and built upon.

But what’s ahead for social media in the coming years?

This infographic from SlideGenius provides information about the latest trends and the future standing of social media in the World Wide Web.

by Rick Enrico via Digital Information World

Ask the UXperts: What UX Practitioners Need to Know About Growth — with Laura Klein

You shouldn’t have to be a growth hacker to care about growing your product’s user base. Understanding growth is important for UX Designers too.

It is far, far easier to achieve sustainable, long term growth for a great product that solves problems for people than for a gimmicky product that doesn’t really work. However, even the best products can fail if you don’t pay attention to growth and use some smart tactics to get it in front of the right people.

So, how do we combine these things and build great products that grow?

— from whatusersknow.com

We need to figure out ways of combining UX with marketing, growth and conversion tactics so that we spread the right techniques for understanding users and solving problems to other areas of the company, without compromising our principles. 

And that’s what this session is about.

The Details

Meet Laura Klein

Laura KleinLaura fell in love with technology when she saw her first user research session in 1995. Since then, she’s worked as an engineer, UX designer, and product manager at startups and large companies in Silicon Valley. Her popular design blog, Users Know, helps teams learn more about their users and apply that knowledge to build better products.

She is currently an advisor to several small startups and consults with companies that want to improve their research, UX, and product development processes.

She’s also the author of UX for Lean Startups and Build Better Products (Rosenfeld Media ’16). 

How to Ask Your Questions

If you can’t make the live session but have questions, we’d love to collect them ahead of time and we’ll ask Laura on your behalf. You can submit your questions here. We’ll publish the responses (along with the full transcript) in the days following the session.

Here are a few question ideas to get you started:

  1. How would you describe the relationship between UX and growth/conversion? What do they have in common?
  2. What techniques can we use when we approach acquisition so that we don’t compromise our principles?
  3. What tools can you recommend to assist with an empathetic growth/conversion strategy?

How does Ask the UXperts work?

These sessions run for approximately an hour and best of all, they don’t cost a cent. We are trialling a new format for this session, using a dedicated public Slack channel. That means that there is no audio or video, but a full transcript will be posted up on here in the days following the session.

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Giveaway Alert! Get Two Gaming Must-Haves for FREE

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