We are the Arcane Gaming development team, developing games since 2021. As of now, we have two major projects: Fanbattle and Suetologia. The time has come for us to take part in the Ludum Dare gaming hackathon for the first time.

If you are at the beginning of your educational path in IT, or contemplating about making changes in your career and starting learning UX design, you might have some doubts and uncertainties on whether UX design is something worth studying and working in right now. We can dispel your doubts: UX designers are very required in the majority of companies, since they help to make products appealing to users, thus raising the companies income and enhancing their reputation. Professionals in this sphere are in high demand right now, and

Getting feedback on the design of a digital product from the other members of the development team, stakeholders and clients is an essential part of a UX designer’s job. Ideally, it provides constructive criticism of the design, helps improve the product and perfect it as much as possible to present the best result of work to the users. But getting feedback doesn’t always happen smoothly – when communication is not established properly or the goals of the process are defined incorrectly, things can go the wrong way. In fact, both asking for feedback and giving it requires following some unwritten rules in order to make this experience useful and comfortable for all parties. In this article we’d like to discuss two things: how to ask for feedback correctly and what to consider if you’re the one who’s giving it.

UX testing is one of the most important parts of the UX design creation process for any software product. It helps to understand whether users are satisfied with the design and highlights its problematic areas that need to be fixed or improved. UX testing is an important part of the whole testing process - it helps to get beta-testers feedback to determine whether the product is comfortable for users and gives opportunity to improve problems and issues before moving on to the next stage of the development process. It also contributes to reducing the cost of development, as it is much cheaper to fix issues during the development process rather than after the release. Listed down below are 5 simple tips that can help perform UX testing in a proper and effective way.

UX writing is an essential part of UX design, which plays a huge role in providing qualitative user experience. The job of a UX writer is to compose texts for a digital product, which can be of two types: microcopy (labels, buttons, notifications and other small notes) and macrocopy (larger texts like written content on pages, instructions, information sheets). UX writing helps users easily navigate through the product, perform various tasks and get all the necessary information.

No matter how many degrees you have or how high your experience level is, your recruiters need to evaluate your knowledge of UX design as a whole. But keep in mind that a job interview is not an exam, so here you are expected not to recite the textbook definitions learned by heart, but rather share your personal understanding of UX and your role as a designer in general. Consider talking about how you define UX, what creates value in the design, what are the necessary parts of a UX design process, what are the current trends in UX. You might also be asked to explain the difference between UI and UX to see how you understand the role of each in the development process.

В предыдущей статье мы разбирали результаты исследования, посвящённого теме потенциального влияния генеративного ИИ на игровую индустрию в ближайшее десятилетие. Теперь же мы предлагаем подробнее рассмотреть, как именно ИИ может применяться в создании видеоигр в ближайшем будущем, чтобы сделать их более интересными для геймеров, а также облегчить труд разработчиков.

Генеративный ИИ сейчас переживает настоящий бум, находя применение в самых разных сферах, но одной из самых интересных и перспективных областей для его использования является разработка видеоигр. На данный момент некоторые крупные игровые компании уже начали применять ИИ-модели на стартовых этапах создания игр – например, для генерации идей развития сюжетной линии. Однако очевидно, что это только начало, и годами роль ИИ в этой сфере будет неуклонно расти. Как же именно он сможет изменить игровую индустрию?

Brainstorming is a popular working method which is commonly used by UX design teams. It involves a group of designers meeting (whether offline or via video call) and generating as many ideas as possible to find the best solution to a specific problem or come up with creative design ideas. Brainstorming sessions are usually held at the start of a UX project so that designers could use the ideas they think are the best later in the process of product creation. These sessions can vary in duration and form depending on which problems need to be solved, how many people participate and how many ideas need to be generated. 

Портфолио – важнейший документ для UX-дизайнера, играющий определяющую роль в процессе поиска работы. В профессиональных кругах его даже называют «визитной карточкой дизайнера». Портфолио – это не просто коллекция ваших работ, это способ продемонстрировать себя как специалиста, проявить свой талант и показать свои навыки решения проблем. В независимости от того, собираетесь ли вы работать фрилансером и искать заказчиков в Интернете, или планируете ходить на собеседования в различные компании, просьба предоставить ваше портфолио будет одной из первых от любого потенциального работодателя. Составить качественное портфолио – задача не из легких даже для опытных профессионалов, а уж в начале карьерного пути это может казаться чем-то очень сложным: оно должно быть серьезным и при этом интересным, информативным, но не перегруженным лишней информацией…

Так что же стоит включить в свое портфолио, а от каких ошибок лучше воздержаться?