Laws of UX VS Balsamiq

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Laws of UX mentions (49)

• Rate my design 0-10

  Look at the Laws of UX https://lawsofux.com/en/ , its great information for what you trying to do. Source: over 1 year ago

• What is it called when you want to do both UI/UX and front end?

  Similar to Growth's psychology section, here's another great set of principles to learn and keep in your back pocket: Https://lawsofux.com/en/. Source: over 1 year ago

• How to design interactions based on user intent and their consequences

  Have a look through Laws of UX. Although I couldn’t find one for your situation quickly scanning the list, it’s a good resource for when you need to derive decisions from principles/“laws”. Source: over 1 year ago

• Designers that don't design

  With UIDs, I find them to be primarily aesthically minded - they have some knowledge of the laws of UX a lot of the time by accident through the virtue of applying design best practice, they usually display strong brand awareness, understand the importance of cohesive visual design across the whole platform but are equally comfortable deep diving into the low level detail and know the technical limitations of the... Source: over 1 year ago

• Graphic Designer wanting to get into UX!

  Study Basic Knowledge: Laws of UX, Usability Heuristics. Source: over 1 year ago

Balsamiq mentions (30)

• Tell HN: My Favorite Tools

  A few apps that are a joy to use: https://ia.net/writer for writing. https://usecontrast.com/ for checking contrast. https://sipapp.io/ for picking colors. https://nova.app/ for editing code. https://cleanshot.com/ for screenshots. https://getpixelsnap.com/ for measuring elements on screen. https://netnewswire.com/ for reading things via RSS. https://panic.com/transmit/ for file transfers. https://usefathom.com/... - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

• Ask HN: Best UI design courses for hackers?

  I think the best practical approach for designing UIs is to download (and buy) Balsamic[0] and use that to design UIs. Cut through the nonsense of colours and pixels in the first instance and just lay things out logically and simply. [0] https://balsamiq.com. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

• Build Products that don’t SUCK

  Create a low-fidelity mockup or wireframe of your MVP using tools like Balsamiq, Sketch, or Figma. Or use an easier-to-use tool like Uizard, which also has text-to-design capabilities. Source: 9 months ago

• Starting Design Work in a Spreadsheet

  Just for drawing mock app screens, I have found Balsamiq[0] to be pretty good (you can do a bunch of stuff with the trial version itself). Not affiliated with them in any way. [0]: https://balsamiq.com/. - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago

• Is there software for building out copywriting for a website?

  Balsamiq has been pretty good for me so far. It's super bare-bones so it's better for copy mockups than actual UX design. It's also a lot easier than Figma. Note that you don't have to use the default comic sans, but I do because it's funny. Source: over 1 year ago