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.
18 Tips For Running a Successful Design Sprint
Development time is a precious resource. In order to be more efficient and responsive, product teams continuously try…
By Nick Babich
Streamlining UX with Anticipatory Design
Creating great UX is a primary goal for all product designers. It’s up to the designer to make a process of interaction…
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8 Design Mistakes that Spell Disaster
Just like anything else, product design can be done well, and it can be done poorly. When a product is designed well,…
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How to Design for iPhone X
Designing for the iPhone X will bring some new challenges, but also some new design opportunities. In this article,…
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How to Run a Successful Design Critique
The quality of critique sessions is a clear indicator of how well the creative process is being managed. When a design…
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11 Secrets of Actionable UX Reports
When designers and developers work on projects, they have a lot of questions: What do our users expect to see on this…
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Frictionless UX: How to Create Smooth User Flows
Almost two decades ago Steve Krug first advised us not to make users think. Today designers strive to create…
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4 Best Practices For Push Notifications
Push notifications are an essential part of mobile marketing. They get users’ attention faster than any other means of…
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4 Most Hated UI Tricks
Nobody wants to create bad design, and yet it happens all the time. And while the cause of bad design varies, the final…
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Designing For Edge Cases
When we design our products, we often design for the happy path scenario, ideal user flow without any obstacles. But in…
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How Gamification Improves UX
Creating products which respond to the user’s needs has become the de-facto standard approach for product design. In…
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6 Ways Illustration Improves UX
The old saying “a picture is worth a thousand words” is still relevant to today’s experiences. People are attracted to…
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The UX of Sound: Designing Audio Experiences
For many of us, sound is an essential part of everyday living. Our day starts with a sound of alarm clock and ends with…
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5 Ways to Improve the UX of Site Search
Search is like a conversation between the user and system: the user expresses their information need as a query, and…
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3 Smart Ways to Engage Users with Animation
Animation was once thought of as just decoration. But as technology advances and internet connections accelerate,…
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5 Design Techniques for Better CTA Buttons
When we visit most websites, we often have a goal in mind. To get to that goal, there’s usually a series of steps we…
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4 Things Every Designer Should Know About Whitespace
Whitespace (or “negative space”) is an empty space between and around objects of a page. Elements of whitespace in…
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5 Surefire Ways to Get Users to Scroll
The days of “above the fold” are over. Long scrolling and infinite scrolling sites are becoming more and more popular…
By Nick Babich