With online shopping and retail becoming rapidly more popular since COVID-19, the icons and layouts of websites and mobile apps may just be one of the most important aspects of user or customer experience. Such carefully curated designs can make a subtle difference, but are significant on the consumer side…

Authors: Michelle Sy, Katherine Liu If you were to go up to a random person listening to music on the street and ask them what service they were using, chances are they’d say Spotify. With over 356 million users overall and 158 million subscribers compared to only 72 million users…

Creative X is a community of aspiring designers at Rutgers, although you’ll find that many of its members are pursuing a variety of different careers, majors, and goals. It was officially approved to be a club in October 2020. Throughout the semester, Creative X held panels with industry professionals, skill-building…

Read more about :3 our lovely committee members who are behind some of your favorite graphics, content, and marketing of Creative X! Ryan layton: Ryan Layton is majoring in ITI and minoring in DCIM and Business Administration. The reason he joined creative x is to meet other Rutgers students who are interested…

IOS 16 Lockscreen Keith: Personally, I like to keep the lock screen clean. I got this wallpaper from Unsplash. On the top, I just have the default date and time widget. …

Read more about some of the people behind our Medium publication and upcoming content! Kwun Ching (Keith) Wong Keith is a junior double majoring in CS and Econ. He joined Creative X because he was always curious about the process of making a user interface of an app or website, and this club is…

This week, we sat down (virtually) with the co-president of Creative X, Willow Yao, to talk about her UX journey and her experiences interning at Amazon this summer. How did you get into UX design? Like many others, UX design wasn’t on Willow’s radar until fairly recently — the summer…

Authors: Katherine Liu, Michelle Sy The rise of social media has surrounded, shaped, and deeply influenced the lives of young adults and children today. It’s considered “normal” now for kids in as young as elementary school to have already started a social presence. No one is unaware of the consequences…

When I was in high-school, I had a computer science teacher who claimed he couldn’t read unless it was code. And every year, countless skeptical students would try to “trap” him into admitting that he was lying. Unfortunately, they were all unsuccessful. To this day, I still have no idea…