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Why Investing in Mobile Apps and User-Centered Design is Crucial for Business Success

Design, Mobile App Development, UX Design / By Jaco van den Heever

As we advance further into the digital age, the significance of mobile apps and user experience (UX) design has skyrocketed. As per a report by McKinsey, businesses that prioritize design outperform those that don’t two to one. For corporate leaders seeking to solidify their digital presence and cultivate meaningful interactions with customers, this revelation is …

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Transforming Your Design Team: From Reactive Instruction Takers to Proactive Strategic Partners

Design, Innovation, UX Design / By Jaco van den Heever

6 Steps to empower your design team to discover the best solutions for your business A common challenge we’ve encountered in many organisations, is that User Experience Design teams are not utilised to their full capability, and inadvertently end up merely designing the User Interfaces (UI) for solutions that are already defined by their business …

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5 Tips for Junior UX Designers

Design, Mobile App Development, User Experience Research, UX Design / By Mika Guliwe

After completing an internship with global design firm Sand Dollar Design in 2020, I joined their user-centered design team in South Africa in 2021 as a UX Analyst (aka a Junior UX Designer). While starting out as an intern or junior may be daunting, it really helps to be guided and mentored by experienced designers …

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Award winning Fintec Mobile App designed by Sand Dollar Design

Design, Mobile App Development, User Experience Research, UX Design / By Jaco van den Heever

Sand Dollar Design is proud to announce that the Mukuru Mobile App, has been awarded the “Most Innovative Online Remittance App” by Global Brands Magazine as part of their 2021 FinTech Awards. Our team is responsible for the User Research, User Experience Design and User Interface Design of this mobile app, in combination with Mukuru’s in-house subject matter …

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Does your company really need a Mobile App?

Design, Innovation, Mobile App Development / By Jaco van den Heever

If I had a Dollar for every time a potential client approached me and said “We need you to develop a mobile app for our company”, I might have built up a small stockpile of cash for myself by now. At least on a weekly basis, the Sand Dollar Design team receives a request from …

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Improving my UI Design Skills: The Spaces Between

Design / By Kalley Coleman

User Interface Design This word brings the same terror and dread that the word ‘dentist’ does to most – UI and I have never been very good friends and being more inclined to UX research, I thought we’d be able to keep our relationship long distance. However, any UX designer worth their socks should be …

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Our key take-outs from UX South Africa 2020

Design, Uncategorized / By Kelebogile Mabe

DESIGNING FOR TOMORROW During July 2020, UX South Africa hosted their very first online conference, which is becoming the new norm for hosting events or meetups, amid the COVID 19 pandemic globally. Although the current pandemic has restricted us to our own homes, it has, however, given technology an opportunity to flourish by bringing people across the …

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Wireframing 101: Back to Basics

Design, What we do / By Ignatius Ferreira

In this article, we provide some tips and advice on how to design low fidelity wireframes that not only solve design problems, but also make the designs easy to understand for everyone who interacts with them.

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