This year, resolve to nourish your calendar with fewer, more meaningful meetings Tasty, tasty meeting alternatives Welcome to 2023. While we’re all making new resolutions and changes in our lives, I want to introduce you to a new fad diet. It’s a meet-less diet, and it doesn’t involve tofu, meat substitutes, or even any extra… Continue reading A meet-less diet
Category: UX
Re-opening my weekly design mentorship sessions in 2023
After a brief pause, I decided to re-open my free mentorship slots for 2023. Every Friday I’ll be dedicating time to meet with folks and chat about any of the topics below: Portfolio review and feedback Interview tips, advice, mock interviews Design, hard- and soft-skill building, career growth Working abroad, cultural adjustments, language learning Writing and publishing design-related content… Continue reading Re-opening my weekly design mentorship sessions in 2023
Can ChatGPT write a proper usability test script?
(Credit: author via Stable Diffusion under CC0 1.0 License) Conducting usability tests is a UX researcher’s bread and butter. It’s a critical part of a user-centered product development process, helping to identify and address any issues or challenges that users may encounter. But preparing for a usability test can be a time-consuming and resource-intensive process,… Continue reading Can ChatGPT write a proper usability test script?
Leveraging radical ingenuity for a more equitable future
How radical ingenuity has helped me transform my design process to meet the needs of people who are often excluded Continue reading on UX Collective »
Measuring simulator sickness in VR: a guide for UX researchers
Understand and mitigate the impact of simulator sickness on VR users. Photo by Norbert Kowalczyk on Unsplash Given that up to 1 in 3 people [1, 2] experience some type of motion sickness, it’s highly likely that either you or someone you know has felt a bit queasy after using a virtual reality (VR) simulator… Continue reading Measuring simulator sickness in VR: a guide for UX researchers
How designers can start using AI at work today
Existing and future use-cases for AI in web and product design Continue reading on UX Collective »
Critiquing our (remote) design crits
Building a culture of sharing our work openly in a scaling UX team Design critiques, also called “crits”, are one of those feedback-focused design rituals that feel so essential to the design process. When done well, they help us improve our design, avoid blind spots, explore new angles, and create higher-quality work. Creating a culture… Continue reading Critiquing our (remote) design crits
Building inclusive products for trans people
Answering trans people’s needs online can create a safer digital environment and lead to a more diverse workforce in Tech. Breaking news: design can help do it. This article is issued from “The great absentee: the trans community in our digital products” conference, held in French by Christopher De Paola and me at “Paris Web 2022”… Continue reading Building inclusive products for trans people
Good handoff improves UX quality
A guide to a streamlined design handoff between designers <> developers Photo by Chris Chow on Unsplash Handing off deliverables and design specifications to developers is always an ongoing debate inside the product design community and product teams I’ve worked with. I believe there are no right or wrong answers because, in a given context,… Continue reading Good handoff improves UX quality
Just Enough Research
Just enough research This is a story about developing the sense of knowing when it is enough to research and your gut feeling, as no data will tell you when to stop. Earlier in September, I had the pleasure to be a guest lecturer at Infinum’s first Design Talks event in Skopje. We talked about processes and… Continue reading Just Enough Research
Will ChatGPT automate the job of professional content writers?
An in-depth skill examination and comparison Photo de sentidos humanos sur Unsplash If you’ve been following me, you know how much I write about automation and its future impact on the economy, society, and people. Analyzing technological changes is quite an intellectual thrill, and -frankly- almost an obsession. But when I heard about OpenAI’s latest… Continue reading Will ChatGPT automate the job of professional content writers?
4 levels of UX Research democratisation
The goal of UX research democratisation isn’t to make everyone a UX researcher but to make UX research happen everywhere. Continue reading on UX Collective »
The future of loyalty programs in an NFT world: Starbucks Odyssey
A first look at the experience and what could be next? Starbucks Odyssey Beta experience finally launches on December 8th to a small group of waitlist members. Starbucks plans to integrate non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and blockchain infra into its Starbucks Rewards loyalty program. This will allow customers and employees to earn and purchase NFTs that… Continue reading The future of loyalty programs in an NFT world: Starbucks Odyssey
Redesigning Twitter, hierarchy strips, Figma personas, AppleJam
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers. “As Elon Musk burns down the Twitter we know, will a drastically different user experience emerge from the ashes?” Redesigning a breaking Twitter →By Maximillian Piras Editor picks Gamification gone wrong →Why apps should stop with the streaks.By Ben Davies-Romano I’m a designer at LinkedIn →Here are 4 tips to… Continue reading Redesigning Twitter, hierarchy strips, Figma personas, AppleJam
Elon’s new Twitter Blue logo isn’t what you think
Twitter Blue Graphic | December 2022 I stumbled across two recent articles discussing Elon’s supposed new Twitter Blue Logo. One from Fast Company titled Elon Musk’s new Twitter Blue logo is perfectly awful, and another from Boing Boing titled The new and laughably bad Twitter Blue logo. In the Fast Company article, the author Jesus… Continue reading Elon’s new Twitter Blue logo isn’t what you think
A radical opinion on ChatGPT
Churn out every idea and then burn it down. We need to talk about ChatGPT. Actually, not just ChatGPT but all AI-powered content development tools. Whether it’s text-to-image AIs, or those capable of generating conversational text, computer code, poetry, and more in response to prompts. Artificial Intelligence has been chipping at creatives for a while, and this… Continue reading A radical opinion on ChatGPT
Wrexham vs. Twitter: a study in contrasts
Twitter is top of mind for many in the technology industry and beyond as Elon Musk just bought it, and has proceeded to gut it. Many of us in the Twitter community are horrified. As long time users we feel betrayed by the way Musk has approached his purchase. His firing of the staff, his… Continue reading Wrexham vs. Twitter: a study in contrasts
Understanding workflow interviews, one of the best 5-minute reality checks from users
A quick method for getting user guidance about how they actually work Continue reading on UX Collective »
Designing a sustainable future
How can we ensure the future of the design specialism is transparent, sustainable and ethically conscious for the wellbeing of the planet? Collage by Claire Matthews We’re living in uncertain times, but one thing can be assured: the climate emergency is now a topic of national concern. We are finally waking up to the harmful… Continue reading Designing a sustainable future
Are silos where UX goes to die?
Prototyping is a simple (not easy) catalyst for transformative change in UX Continue reading on UX Collective »
How to deal with tech downturn
Photo by Sam Mgrdichian on Unsplash I’ve been feeling heavy-hearted for the past few months. Everywhere I look, layoffs are happening, job hunting is taking much longer than usual, and offers are being rescinded or postponed. Even the ones who get to keep their jobs struggle with low morale and survivor guilt. It hurts, and… Continue reading How to deal with tech downturn
When the workaround is also inaccessible
The saga of Shane Burcaw and TSA Pre-Check. Continue reading on UX Collective »
How AI will unlock a new dimension of marketing creativity
Image by Author When you think about AI, what springs to mind? You’re not alone if you instantly get an image of some dystopian, sci-fi reality where it’s people vs. machines. From The Terminator to The Matrix and endless pixel points in between, we have an idea of what happens when robots get smarter/stronger/faster than… Continue reading How AI will unlock a new dimension of marketing creativity
What did Victor Papanek leave for UX designers in “Design for Real Word”?
In the “Back to basics” series, I would like to rediscover the content of the textbooks I read at the beginning of my industrial design studies. I am a supporter of wise (prudent) use of the achievements of the predecessors, which is why I re-read these valuable, twentieth-century books on design and try to extract… Continue reading What did Victor Papanek leave for UX designers in “Design for Real Word”?