Kathryn Grayson Nanz
Kathryn Grayson Nanz is a developer advocate at Progress with a passion for React, UI and design and sharing with the community. She started her career as a graphic designer and was told by her Creative Director to never let anyone find out she could code because she’d be stuck doing it forever. She ignored his warning and has never been happier. You can find her writing, blogging, streaming and tweeting about React, design, UI and more. You can find her at @kathryngrayson on Twitter.
Articles by the Author
UX Crash Course: The Double Diamond Process
How does iterative design actually work in a day-to-day context? What does that process look like practically, for the people building software with it? That’s what the Double Diamond Process seeks to answer.
UX Crash Course: Personas
When personas are informed by research, they can be powerful tools … but when they’re created based on assumptions or guesses, they can set you back quite a ways. Learn how to create useful and data-based personas!
UX Crash Course: Mental Models and Cognitive Load
Users may use 20 different applications over the course of their entire day, of which ours is just one. What does that mean for us, in terms of user interface and experience design?
UX Crash Course: Prototyping
Even if you don’t have access to advanced prototyping tools, there’s still a lot you can do. Let’s take a look at some different options for prototyping and how you can leverage them.
UX Crash Course: Wireframing
Wireframes are great for forcing us to think through how the UI will respond to user input—and capturing all of that information!
UX Crash Course: Storyboarding
Whether you’re explaining a concept to a stakeholder or client, or to a UI designer, developer or QA tester, everyone benefits from understanding the context in which the feature or product will be applied by the end user. That’s exactly what storyboarding is perfect for!
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