Organized chaos

Beau Ulrey · Follow Published in UX Collective · 5 min read · May 17 — 2 Listen Share Jackson Pollock embracing mastery and chaos. Credit: Life In Jordan Peterson’s 12 Rules for Life, he addresses some very big questions and common lies we all tell ourselves. He presents the concept of finding meaning by… Continue reading Organized chaos

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My Perspective on Apple Live Speech as a Deaf Person

On May 16, Apple released a press release introducing new features for cognitive accessibility including Live Speech, Personal Voice, and Point and Speak in Magnifier. Those features will be available later this year. You can read more about it here: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/05/apple-previews-live-speech-personal-voice-and-more-new-accessibility-features/ Today, I would like to talk about Live Speech because it is valuable to… Continue reading My Perspective on Apple Live Speech as a Deaf Person

Finding value at the bookends

Improving the design of solutions by conducting foundational pre-design research and post-launch analyses. The UX research field is experiencing a significant transformation as it becomes increasingly prevalent and expands beyond dedicated user researchers. Both user researchers and “people who do research” are engaging in more user interviews, surveys, and other forms of data collection, recognizing… Continue reading Finding value at the bookends

Accessibility is Officially Recognized as a Cybersecurity Priority

When I joined Deque almost a year ago as the Director of Security, I became acutely aware of the importance of accessibility in cybersecurity. Through my research, I found that not only are cybersecurity solutions in most organizations not accessible for end users, but most tools used by cybersecurity professionals themselves also are not accessible… Continue reading Accessibility is Officially Recognized as a Cybersecurity Priority

Adobe Illustrator: Illustration for Beginners

Looking to transform your sketches and designs into clean vector images using Adobe Illustrator? This course for beginners will help you find your way around Illustrator and the key tools you’ll need to create eye-catching vector illustrations. Watch the Full Adobe Illustrator: Illustration for Beginners  Course What You’ll Learn What Is a Vector Image? How… Continue reading Adobe Illustrator: Illustration for Beginners

WCAG 2.2 Removes 4.1.1 Parsing and How axe-core is Impacted

Earlier this year, for the first time ever the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) proposed to remove a success criterion from WCAG 2. Success Criterion 4.1.1 Parsing ensures that pages written in markup languages like HTML and SVG are written in a way that allows browsers and assistive technologies to understand them consistently. Let’s take… Continue reading WCAG 2.2 Removes 4.1.1 Parsing and How axe-core is Impacted

Invisible cities, infinite scroll UX, product tsunami, Framer AI

Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers. “We are still at the dawn of a new digital era: artificial intelligence, virtual worlds, augmented reality, and other technical and societal changes are reframing the world we live in. However, from a spatial design perspective, they have so far been lame and ordinary. Without the constraints in the physical… Continue reading Invisible cities, infinite scroll UX, product tsunami, Framer AI

Does good design require instructions?

Debunking the meaning behind the cliché saying Elvis Hsiao · Follow Published in UX Collective · 8 min read · 3 days ago — 4 Listen Share Source: https://99percentinvisible.org/article/norman-doors-dont-know-whether-push-pull-blame-design/ As a UX designer responsible for creating digital products and interfaces, I often struggle with the fear that my designs may not be intuitive or accessible… Continue reading Does good design require instructions?

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Innovative Home Decor: How Custom Neon Signs Elevate Interior Design Strategies

‍“There’s No Place Like Home” LED sign by VoodooNeon.com Introduction to innovative home decor In recent years, the world of interior design has seen a significant shift towards innovative and unconventional home decor ideas. As homeowners, we are always on the lookout for unique ways to express our individuality and creativity in our living spaces.… Continue reading Innovative Home Decor: How Custom Neon Signs Elevate Interior Design Strategies

How to Build Your Own AI With ChatGPT API

OpenAI, the team behind ChatGPT, recently expanded upon their API and added ChatGPT. This means that you can call their API, get responses directly from ChatGPT, and include the responses in your own application. The API lets you integrate artificial intelligence into your own application. You can use it to build a question and answer… Continue reading How to Build Your Own AI With ChatGPT API

Setting up performance reviews for Product Designers

Take a few shortcuts with my comprehensive guide on evaluating designers Why is evaluating designers so difficult? Evaluating the performance of a product designer within a startup or agency environment is challenging. It involves a mixture of objective and subjective data that is synthesized in an attempt to gauge if someone is to be rewarded,… Continue reading Setting up performance reviews for Product Designers

Facilitating effective ideation meetings

[unable to retrieve full-text content] Designing engaging and productive gatherings Photo by Sigmund on Unsplash In today’s hybrid work landscape, meetings have become abundant, but unfortunately, many of them still suffer from inefficiency and ineffectiveness. Specifically, meetings aimed at generating ideas to address various challenges related to people, processes, or products encounter recurring issues. The lack… Continue reading Facilitating effective ideation meetings

Prototyping for Apple Vision Pro, baseline alignment in Figma, spatial computing

Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers. Google Glass emerged as a highly anticipated innovation with the potential to revolutionize our daily lives. Its sleek design, hands-free interface, and augmented reality (AR) capabilities promised a futuristic experience. However, despite its initial hype and grand vision, Google Glass ultimately failed to capture the consumer market and find… Continue reading Prototyping for Apple Vision Pro, baseline alignment in Figma, spatial computing

A Product Tsunami is Coming

How Artificial Intelligence is Reshaping Digital Products Management Jose A. Gonzalez Reboredo · Follow Published in UX Collective · 6 min read · 5 days ago — Listen Share Picture generated with Canva.com AI We all probably agree that Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the next major disruptive technological change. It’s a hot topic, and there… Continue reading A Product Tsunami is Coming

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Using the Popover API: Native Modals for the Web

Popovers, a collective term for what you might know as “tooltips”, “overlays”,  “modals” or “dialogs”, offer a powerful way to display additional information or actions within a web application. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to use the new Popover API, a versatile new tool for creating dynamic and customizable popovers. We’ll walk through the basics… Continue reading Using the Popover API: Native Modals for the Web