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Breaking free from the past

Breaking free from the past

From the course: UX Design for Developers

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Breaking free from the past

- [Instructor] Let's talk about your toolkit of techniques for getting to more bold innovative designs. The first is one I've pounded on in this course, but that's because it's that important and useful. So let me emphasis again. The multiple design strategy offers many benefits. Getting bold designs is one more. If you commit to doing multiple design options you are far more likely to find bold ones. Building your pool of ideas also helps you be innovative. When I talk about additional resources later, I list some books in white papers that outline common interaction patterns in software. You can use those resources as checklists. Just go through the list of patterns and see if one might fit your needs. Don't be afraid to try more than one. If you know applications with comparable functionality take a look at them. Do that as an entire design team if possible. You can get together and critique an application and that might give you ideas for your own. And remember to collaborate…

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