Nick Babich
Fireart Studio is a design studio passionate about creating beautiful design for startups & leading brands. We pay special attention to nuances all the time to create professional while cool products that will not only meet all expectations, but exceed them.
5 Techniques for Engaging Display Type
Sometimes your typeface needs to convey feeling as much as meaning, and for that function more designers are turning to…
By Nick Babich
4 Tricks to Make Load Times Feel Faster
No matter how well-designed your user interface may be, at some point or another, people using it are going to have to…
By Nick Babich
How to Master Microcopy
Microcopy is the little bits of text that guide users through an experience. In apps and websites, microcopy includes…
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5 Ways the Floating Action Button Boosts UX
A Floating Action Button (FAB) is a circled icon floating above the user interface. Its shape, position, and color…
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5 Smart Alternatives to the Hamburger Menu
Screen space is a precious resource on mobile. To meet the challenge of small screen space while still making…
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4 Ways To Design a Perfect Split Screen Homepage
One screen divided in two.
The split screen technique has long been known in the film industry, with early examples…
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6 Ways to Prevent Friction in Your Design
In user experience, friction is anything that prevents users from accomplishing their goals. Friction is a major…
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5 Essential Rules of Wearable Design
Wearables are becoming increasingly important devices with a growing array of apps available. There are millions of…
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3 Secrets of Successful AR Design
Over the past several years, augmented reality (AR) technology has established a home in entertainment, marketing,…
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5 Unbreakable Rules for UI Animation on the Web
Transitions are a powerful way to communicate a change in a user interface. They can be used in apps to help offload a…
By Nick Babich
4 Ways Vibrant Colors Boost UI Design
Color is one of the most powerful tools in the designer’s toolkit. It can draw attention, set a mood, influence users’…
By Nick Babich
3 UX Rules for Conversational UI Design
You may have heard that “conversational interfaces” are the new hot trend in digital product design. Industry leaders…
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4 Smart Ways to Use Illustration in UI Design
As the saying goes, a picture is worth a thousand words. Human beings are highly visual creatures able to process…
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4 Ways to Use Functional Animation in UI Design
Just a decade ago user interfaces that used animations were avoided, being most often associated with popups and…
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How to Design Gesture-Driven UI
Remember the days when hovering and clicking with the mouse were the most used triggers for interaction with a site or…
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6 Ways to Make Usability Hygiene Work for You
The term ‘usability hygiene’ was firstly introduced by Google in the context of the basics that need to be addressed in…
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Microinteractions: Designing with Details
“The best products do two things well: features and details. Features are what draw people to your product; details are…
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7 Ways to Delight Users with Animation
“Delight” is a word that we’re hearing and using more often to describe pleasurable moments in our products. Delight is…
By Nick Babich