Category: UX

The following limitations should be considered when reading this article: Wages in the private sector are often made up of base pay and performance-related pay, both of which contribute to the gender pay gap. Due to time limitations, this article focuses solely on base pay. Gender is one of multiple personal characteristics that can affect… Continue reading The gender pay gap is designed into our culture; here’s how we can design it out

Some other more concrete examples I want to briefly highlight are: (1) facial recognition in surveillance systems, (2) military drone control UI, (3) military shooter games, and (4) deceptive UX patterns. This example ties back to AI being as biased as their creators. We’ve seen and heard stories of facial recognition software racially profiling people… Continue reading Oppenheimer & UX: from atoms to experiences

The success of a design system depends more on stakeholder management than on the quality of its components. Continue reading on UX Collective »

Articulating why a design is good is always a challenge. Even the veterans sometimes struggle to find the words! Luckily, there are a number of common sets of design principles that provide practical starting points for analyzing designs and expressing what’s successful or unsuccessful about them. While senior designers tend to internalize these principles through… Continue reading 5 proven sets of design principles and how I use them

Early in my career as a product designer, I was working on an app for patients undergoing chemotherapy when the client asked “How can we make this experience delightful?” Once I got over my initial shock from the contradictions inherent to that question, I dug a little deeper. What is delight? And how can we… Continue reading That which makes us human

His famous quote, “Why waste time say lot word when few word do trick?” takes a comedic approach highlighting this topic–using big words and a lot of them is a needless waste of time. While I am not suggesting we take it to the level Kevin did, there is evidence that would suggest using few,… Continue reading Big words aren’t accessible.

For business leaders today, investing in technology is still necessary but not sufficient to respond (and anticipate) the constant changes in customer’s needs, preferences and behaviour. To transform all these changes into opportunities to grow your business, we must complete our technological advantage with a methodological one: what we, at Designit, call “Becoming a Designer… Continue reading This is why every company must become a design company

Startups offer tons of value to designers if you know how to handle the extra work Continue reading on UX Collective »

Where we may normally struggle a little in getting our point across advocating for users and our true intentions for the success of the business heard, stress adds an extra layer of complication making it even harder to manage those complex stakeholder relationships and emotions. Suddenly, we are being misunderstood and perceived as negative and… Continue reading Stress kills listening skills

CROSS-CULTURAL COMMUNICATION International team collaboration. Josh LaMar (He/Him) · Follow Published in UX Collective · 14 min read · 12 hours ago — 1 Listen Share Photo by Brett Jordan on Unsplash Collaborating with colleagues around the world is a rich and rewarding experience. Exposure to new cultures and ideas stimulates new ways of thinking… Continue reading Speaking English so non-native colleagues understand