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Using Empty States to your Advantage

How to prevent your app from losing half its users in a month — Empty States are often neglected and designed last. I don’t blame you though. After all, compared to the main screens, these aren’t important. Right? Sadly, no. The worst that can happen is that users can uninstall your app after first use. Trust me, you don’t want that to happen. Users…

UX

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Use Empty States to your Advantage
Use Empty States to your Advantage
UX

11 min read


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Stop Using A Loading Spinner, There’s Something Better

Stop using those boring loading spinners in your user interfaces. Seriously. It’s killing your apps’ experience more than you know. A loading spinner might be the solution to your content loading problems. But I’m here to tell you that it’s not. You might even use some of those fancy animated…

UX

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Stop Using A Loading Spinner, There’s Something Better
Stop Using A Loading Spinner, There’s Something Better
UX

10 min read


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Best Practices for Horizontal Lists in Mobile

Many Android and iOS apps have horizontal scrolling lists. Maybe it’s also combined inside a vertical list. But is it necessary? Even assuming it is, are you doing it right? In this article, let’s discuss tips to remember when designing horizontal lists. …

Design

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Best Practices for Horizontal Lists in Mobile
Best Practices for Horizontal Lists in Mobile
Design

11 min read


Published in BuzzFeed Design

·Feb 28, 2020

Join BuzzFeed as a Product Design Intern

We’re hiring two interns this summer! — Deciding what kind of internship you want is hard. Large companies give you a glimpse of how Product Design is practiced at scale. Startups are more hands-on, providing opportunities to have a more direct impact with your work. Product Design at BuzzFeed offers the best of both worlds. You’ll be…

BuzzFeed

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Join BuzzFeed as a Product Design Intern
Join BuzzFeed as a Product Design Intern
BuzzFeed

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Published in UX Collective

·Apr 11, 2017

Techniques to Display Text over Background Images

It’s become popular to overlay text labels on background images. But the image could be anything. How does your user interface design accommodate that? Can text overlay remain readable always? The last thing you’d want is your users straining to read such text. This is all the more important on…

Design

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Techniques to Display Text over Background Images
Techniques to Display Text over Background Images
Design

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Published in AndroidPub

·Mar 22, 2016

Ultimate Guide to Bottom Navigation on Android

In this tutorial, learn to add a Bottom Bar and manage Fragments with it. — One of the newest additions to the Material Design is the Bottom Navigation Bar. Its like the TabBar you see on iOS, and similar in functionality too.

Android

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Ultimate Guide to Bottom Navigation on Android
Ultimate Guide to Bottom Navigation on Android
Android

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Published in AndroidPub

·Sep 15, 2015

Create a Parallax Scrolling Header with Tabs in Android

Material Design has seen the rise in on-scroll animations in Android apps. Certain designs include a parallax scroll effect with a header images, along with Tabs. In this post, we’ll look at just that. Some examples of popular scrolling patterns include the Flexible Space with Image and Quick Return pattern…

Android

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Create a Parallax Scrolling Header with Tabs in Android
Create a Parallax Scrolling Header with Tabs in Android
Android

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Published in AndroidPub

·Jun 2, 2015

Creating the Flexible Space with Image Pattern on Android

The Design support library for Android makes it easy to create great animations. Let’s look at how to create an app with a collapsing Toolbar animation. It’s know as Flexible Space with Image pattern, a popular scrolling technique. I didn’t know this pattern actually had a name until Ian Lake…

Android

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Creating the Flexible Space with Image Pattern on Android
Creating the Flexible Space with Image Pattern on Android
Android

11 min read

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Suleiman Shakir

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Designer, developer & self-taught artist | Design Systems @Amazon | https://iamsuleiman.com

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