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10 Free Tools and Apps for Optimizing Images
In our never-ending quest to create websites that are as lightweight as possible, image optimization plays an important role.
Poorly optimized images not only increase load time, they also take up precious bandwidth from both users and networks alike. Larger websites with copious amounts of images ..
Creative Examples of 404 Web Page Designs
Despite search engines getting better at indexing websites, and sites paying extra attention to broken links through dedicated plugins and services, 404 pages are still an integral part of the modern web.
As hard as companies and sites try to avoid issuing broken links and sending visitors to redun..
5 Ways to Make CX the Cornerstone of your Freelance Business
Ask anyone for the golden rule of business and their first guess at an answer might be: “make money.”
Yet, really, the golden rule should be the same one we all have heard time and again – treat others as you wish to be treated. This foundational tenet of good customer experience (CX) is just one o..
How to go from Designer to Manager
UXswitch polls its members about topics that interest them from time to time. Recently, we’ve seen a growing desire to learn how one goes from being a hands-on designer to being a design manager. In this article, we’ve interviewed design managers like Cees van Dok at TomTom who have made that leap a..
Redesign the World Around You
Recently I gave a talk to Masters students about how to prepare their portfolios for the employment market. Looking at the 20 bright faces in front of me, I asked myself a hypothetical question. If I had to pick three of them to interview for a potential role, which ones would I chose? How does a bu..
Five Ways To Ensure You Get That UX Agency Job
As the CEO and Founder of Fathom, I often reflect on what impresses me in a candidate profile and in the interview process. This article finally affords me the opportunity write down what has been rattling around the back of my mind for quite some time.
Below are the top five things I’m conscious o..
Tales from an American UXer in China
In an exclusive interview with UXswitch, Junior UXer Jay Speakman talks to us about his observations about the use of technology in China and about the prospects for Western designers there.
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As an American working in China I’ve become quite very familiar with how popular mobile is for pretty much ..
Winner of World’s Best UX Recruiter 2017 Announced
UXswitch is delighted to announce that David Sims has been awarded the title of World’s Best UX Recruiter 2017. David is Practice Lead (UX, UI, CX & Service Design, Digital Strategy & Transformation) at Salt in London, UK.
At UXswitch we’re all about raising the standard of recruitment practice in ..
Designing the Future of the Design Industry
UXswitch speaks exclusively to Piers Scott, Lead UX Designer and Content Strategist at Rothco, about the role of independent design agencies in an era when every other type of ad or technology, business development agency, and indeed in-house teams, seem to offer design services.
It’s happened befo..
Enthusiasm Should Trump Experience
Have you ever been interviewed for a role only to be told that the successful candidate was a better match? That they got the job because their current role was more aligned with the vacancy on offer? All too often employers opt for the candidate that has being performing a similar role in their exi..
