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Creating Your UX Playbook

A UX playbook empowers colleagues, builds credibility, and scales your influence far beyond your own capacity. By now, you’ve probably seen how powerful it can be to stop doing all the UX work yourself. Acting as a consultant and guide lets you touch far more projects. But that shift only works if your colleagues have… Continue reading Creating Your UX Playbook

How to Define Success Criteria for UX Research

[unable to retrieve full-text content] In UX research, we have two pieces— hypotheses and success criteria — that set the foundation for any research activity. Without them, research risks becoming vague “user feedback sessions” rather than a fuel that powers design process. A hypothesis is simply an assumption about user behavior, needs, or preferences that you want to… Continue reading How to Define Success Criteria for UX Research

How to Collect App Feedback? [Best App Feedback Tools in 2025]

Key takeaways 🧭 In-app feedback is like your app’s GPS. Without it, you’re navigating UX blindly. Real user input helps improve flows, catch bugs, and boost retention. 📱 Over 85% of mobile users prefer apps to mobile sites. Failing to meet UX expectations means users will uninstall and move on quickly. 🎯 Collecting feedback before… Continue reading How to Collect App Feedback? [Best App Feedback Tools in 2025]

How to Know If Your SEO Expert Actually Knows SaaS?

In the digital marketing landscape, search engine optimization (SEO) is vital, especially for software as a service (SaaS) companies. These businesses rely heavily on online visibility to attract potential customers. However, not every SEO expert understands the specific needs of SaaS. This post explores determining if an SEO professional truly grasps the nuances of SaaS.… Continue reading How to Know If Your SEO Expert Actually Knows SaaS?

12 Best Maze Alternatives & Competitors in 2025

Key Takeaways ⚖️ Maze’s Starter Plan is restrictive, allowing only one study per month, while the Organization Plan starting at $15,000/year feels like a leap. 🛠️ Key features like card sorting, tree testing, and prototype testing are limited to Maze’s higher-tier plans. In contrast, UXtweak and Optimal Workshop include these tools in more affordable options.… Continue reading 12 Best Maze Alternatives & Competitors in 2025

The 4 UX Resources Every Organization Needs

If you want to scale UX impact, you need to empower others. Start by giving them these four essential support tools. So far in this series, we’ve been shifting your role from implementer to advisor. You’ve worked hard to win trust, define a strategy, and begin shaping the way your organization approaches user experience. But,… Continue reading The 4 UX Resources Every Organization Needs

The social significance of Spotify Wrapped

[unable to retrieve full-text content] How the tech industry ended postmodernism and increased individualism Wham!, Coca-Cola commercials, and obligatory family dinners; Western Christmas weeks are very predictable. We even have a new December tradition: the annual Spotify Wrapped. At first glance, the concept seems like a brilliant marketing strategy, but there’s a deeper meaning behind it.… Continue reading The social significance of Spotify Wrapped

How to Become a UX Consultant? [Responsibilities, Salary & Jobs]

Key takeaways 📈 UX consultants align user experience with business goals to drive measurable impact. 🧪 Conducting in-depth research and audits helps uncover usability issues. 💼 Earning $140K+ annually or charging high hourly rates is common in this role. 🧠 Shifting focus from design execution to strategic problem-solving defines the consultant mindset. 🐝 UXtweak helps… Continue reading How to Become a UX Consultant? [Responsibilities, Salary & Jobs]

Becoming a UX Multiplier: Services That Expand Your Impact

Learn how to offer strategic UX services that scale your influence without stretching yourself too thin. In the last email, I talked about shifting your role from implementer to advisor. I know that can feel uncomfortable, maybe even a bit risky. Letting go of direct control means trusting others to do UX work, and let’s… Continue reading Becoming a UX Multiplier: Services That Expand Your Impact

The Template Trap: How Template Culture Is Dumbing Down UX

Summary: Overreliance on frameworks as universal solutions rather than adaptable starting points undermines critical thinking and threatens our field’s intellectual rigor. The Template Trap In our field of experience design, we’re witnessing a concerning trend: an overreliance on templates, frameworks, and “ultimate” checklists. Every day, a new “ultimate UX toolkit” or “complete design-system template” circulates… Continue reading The Template Trap: How Template Culture Is Dumbing Down UX

The relation between software quality and UX

[unable to retrieve full-text content] Does your company’s digital product have quality? The relationship between software quality and User Experience (UX), encompassing Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), is intrinsically related and fundamental to the success of any interactive product or software. While they might appear to be distinct disciplines, they are complementary and mutually dependent in creating effective,… Continue reading The relation between software quality and UX

Top 8 Methods for UX Research Analysis w/ Tools & Tips

Key takeaways 💡 User research analysis is the process of interpreting data and insights collected during the user research stage. 🔦 In user research analysis, the data that we analyze generally falls under two categories: qualitative and quantitative data. 🔎 UX research analysis and UX research synthesis are two distinct processes that serve distinct roles… Continue reading Top 8 Methods for UX Research Analysis w/ Tools & Tips

Are You Ready to Become a UX leader?

Discover your true role as a UX leader—regardless of your job title or organization. Understanding Where You Fit If you’re reading this, chances are you’re passionate about user experience. But maybe UX isn’t actually in your job title. Perhaps you’re a marketer, project manager, developer, copywriter, or business analyst who deeply cares about making your… Continue reading Are You Ready to Become a UX leader?

Convenience vs. Probability Sampling in UX Research

Summary: Convenience sampling is quick and cost-effective for UX research, but probability sampling is better when you need representative and generalizable data. When conducting UX research, choosing the right sampling method can ensure that your findings are both useful and reliable. Most UX practitioners use a sampling method called convenience sampling: recruiting participants based on… Continue reading Convenience vs. Probability Sampling in UX Research

UX Layoff Crisis: A Guide for Resilience and Recovery

Summary: Lost your UX job in a layoff? Use this step-by-step guide to preserve your professionalism and optimism during this stressful experience. Your company’s rumor mill has been churning for weeks about layoffs, but you’ve tried not to give it much thought. You have a good relationship with your manager. You’ve delivered quality UX work… Continue reading UX Layoff Crisis: A Guide for Resilience and Recovery

The Death of Coding Jobs: How AI, No-Code, and Corporate Greed Are Killing the Industry

For the last two decades, the promise of a lucrative career in coding has been drilled into our heads. “Learn to code,” they said. “It’s the skill of the future,” they insisted. Well, the future is here—and coding jobs are disappearing faster than an intern after a critical server crash. AI is writing code better… Continue reading The Death of Coding Jobs: How AI, No-Code, and Corporate Greed Are Killing the Industry

UX Is Bigger Than You Think: Beyond Websites and Apps

Your users’ experience starts long before they visit your site or app—and continues long after. Are you considering the full picture? As UX advocates and practitioners, we tend to focus on the immediate project at hand—the website, the app, the product interface. But that’s only a fraction of the actual user experience. Every digital interaction… Continue reading UX Is Bigger Than You Think: Beyond Websites and Apps

Kate Moran about UX Leadership and AI in UX Research

“I think UX professionals are better qualified for leadership roles than they (often) realize. That empathy and passion we have for users is just as important when applied to the business and the people you’re responsible for.” – Kate Meet Kate Moran – a globally recognized UX expert, UX researcher, and a Vice President at… Continue reading Kate Moran about UX Leadership and AI in UX Research

Top 25 Customer Analytics Software & Tools in 2025

Key Takeaways 📊 Customer analytics software helps businesses collect and analyze user data to improve digital products and understand customer behavior. 🛠️ Different tools offer features such as session recording, heatmaps, and customer segmentation to track interactions and find areas for improvement. 💰 Budget-friendly choices are available, with many tools providing free plans or trials,… Continue reading Top 25 Customer Analytics Software & Tools in 2025

Redesigning Alerts for Life or Death

[unable to retrieve full-text content] A real-time alert on a phone screen — illustrating the critical need for better emergency messaging. How Smart UX Design Can Make Alerts Matter It was 10 AM when my phone blasted what turned out to be a critical Wireless Emergency Alert. Like many of us would, I instinctively swiped it away and… Continue reading Redesigning Alerts for Life or Death

UX and CX Merge: The Shift from Products to Journeys

Summary: Organizations are starting to merge user experience and customer experience into a single function, setting the foundation for a journey-centric-experience practice. Organizational silos and product-centric design make it difficult to resolve friction for customers who use our products and services. User-centered design is applied to digital products, but many pain points in real customer… Continue reading UX and CX Merge: The Shift from Products to Journeys

MeasuringU reviews, price & alternatives

❕ Important note: This review site presents information relevant for researchers, not for participants in the user panel. TABLE OF CONTENTS What is MeasuringU? MUiQ is a UX research tool for desktop and mobile, offering usability studies, IA testing, surveys, and live sessions. With task recordings, click maps, and analytics, it helps you gain user… Continue reading MeasuringU reviews, price & alternatives

7 Tips for Successful Discoveries

Summary: Discovery is challenging; it can be hard to know what to research, how to do discovery as a team, and how to get buy-in. Follow these 7 tips for smoother discovery efforts. Discovery is one of the most challenging parts of the design process because it’s filled with unknowns. The problem you want to… Continue reading 7 Tips for Successful Discoveries