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Did you know that there are over 300 million color blind people in the world? To visualize that amount, imagine that that is almost as many people as the entire population of the USA. Approximately 1 in 12 men (8%!) and 1 in 200 women have some sort of color vision deficiency.

Hi. I am Irina, a UX professional with numerous awesome clients and inspiring projects under my belt. It’s hard to believe that just 9 years ago I didn’t know a thing about UX design and worked as an English as a Second Language teacher.

I have designed numerous marketing websites in my career — especially in the beginning when I worked as a web-designer at the marketing department of one of the New York City’s Fortune 500 companies. It was my first job out of design school and I tried my best to make an impress...

If you are a young professional who already has a job (or is looking for a job) chances are you already have a resume. Chances are you have put a lot of thought into it and spent quite some time crafting it. And chances are you haven’t gotten any interview invitations.

In my latest article How I Became a UX Designer In Less Then a Year I talk about my experience of going through a career change. One of the most significant steps I made in that process was attending a full-time intensive design course at Shillington School of Graphic Design in ...

The initial meeting with the client is arguably the most important part of any design project. A successful first meeting can guarantee a successful outcome and a strong long-term relationship with your client. An unsuccessful one can doom the project to failure (or at least lea...

There is a lot involved in making websites fully accessible to a wide variety of people with disabilities and situational limitations. It requires extensive research, usability testing, good UX and visual design, proper markup and code and sometimes complex assistive technologie...

Product questions: Do you like our travel app idea? => What and why questions: What travel apps or websites do you use? Why? (try to uncover data and problems that people have)

Usability testing is arguably the one most important tool of all your user research efforts. As Steve Krug states in his brilliant book “Rocket surgery made easy”, even fifteen minutes of an informal usability test can bring positive results and improve your product significantl...

Are you an aspiring UX professional? If yes, then chances are you have already applied for your fair share of positions. And chances are that at the top of your resume you proudly introduce yourself as a “UX Designer” and listed everything from concept development to information...