How much time does your team spend perfecting things for stakeholder review? How does it feel to work really hard towards Person A’s idea of perfection, and then learn that Person B has a different idea? That's why at Slide UX, we don't believe in a big, formal “ta-da”. Get everyone involved, and share early.
Great UX, or First to Market?
How To Give and Take Critique
You Know What Users Need. Or Do You?
How Often Does a Website Need To Be Refreshed?
Model UI Animations with Keynote
If you’re like most of the product leaders we work with, you’ve often found yourself needing to convey UI concepts to your team.
Animation is an important part of the user interface and can be very effective in helping to convey UI concepts, but animation design isn’t typically a part of Product Management 101.
Did you know that presentation products like Keynote and even PowerPoint can be powerful animation tools?
Good UX Means Organizational Change
Optimizing Your App's Place in the App Store
Our friend David Bell from Gummicube taught us how to drive conversion with meaningful creative, why fresh metadata is key to ranking, how paid search can reduce your indexing time and garner user insights, and why app store optimization is a process.
The Myth of User Rationality with Entrepreneur Tabrez Syed
In this edition of For Humans’ Sake, Cofounder and Principal Erin Young talked to Tabrez Syed. He is an entrepreneur, a product builder and an advisor with a background in engineering. Erin spoke to Tabrez about how often users don't live in a rational world, focusing on asking the right questions and working with Slide UX.
Making Decisions Is the Work
Whether you’re ambitious or just lucky, you will hit a point in your career at which there is no right choice. Every path is a different bet. There is no playbook. Deciding on a vision, deciding on the values and principles you’ll use to guide your decisions, deciding how to proceed at each juncture… this IS the work of leadership. And you’re equipped, even if you don’t have all the right answers today.
Transitioning to UX? Questions to Ask
We often hear from people who are interested in transitioning to a career in UX, and want to know what kind of program they should consider. From Google UX certificates to bootcamps to masters degrees, there are many options.
Our team of 23 (and growing!) has a range of educational backgrounds, and a lot to say about the learning options available in UX. In this piece, hear directly from UX professionals who have been there.
Optimizing Metadata to Rank in the App Store
In early 2021, we hosted our friend David Bell, co-founder and CEO at Gummicube for a Lunch & Learn on his favorite topic: App Store Optimization. In Part 2 of this 3-part series, we’ll share what we learned about the structure of metadata in the app stores, and how app publishers can make smart choices with the fields available to them in order to get ranked so their apps are easy to discovery by users who are searching and browsing.
Conversion 101: Users Click the Big, Bold Button
How Continuous Learning Keeps Cerity Ahead
As the Chief Marketing Officer at Cerity, Matt Hovis sits at the intersection of marketing and product design. In this edition of For Humans’ Sake, Partner & UX Managing Director Megan Baker talked to Matt about the value of being well-rounded – both in your understanding of the user, as well as your career path.
Losing Perspective as You Integrate With a Product Team
How to Rank in the App Store
In early 2021, we were joined by David Bell, co-founder and CEO at Gummicube for a Lunch & Learn on his favorite topic: App Store Optimization. Gummicube is the leader in App Store Optimization, offering both the technologies and services to help apps rank. In Part 1 of this 3-part video series, we’ll share what we learned about how brands can achieve good app store rankings.
Top B2B Provider in Texas? Yee-Haw, Y'all!
Sliders were thrilled to learn that Clutch ranked Slide UX as the #6 B2B company in Texas and the #5 B2B Company in Austin for 2021. Learn why this is such an honor for us, and why Slide UX appreciates Clutch so much.
You Know Too Much to Think Like Your Users
In this edition of For Humans’ Sake, Lindsay Winters speaks with Scott Segal, Director of IT at the American Board of Radiology, about how user insights can change assumptions, why it’s important to talk to the people who use the product you’re building, why you should consider the conceptual complexity of anything you're designing, and understanding that you’re not your user.
We've Systemized UX Services–Here's How It's Going
Earlier this year, Erin sat down with Greg Hickman from Alt Agency to talk about how Slide UX has focused and systemized our UX services. She covered who Slide UX is and what we do, how we slashed through the baggage to focus our services down to a lean, core program, why clients love it, and what she would suggest to other creative leaders.