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Source: Anya Perepelkina on DribbbleProduct teams that aim to grow in design maturity and dev output need to create a strong bond between designers and developers besides simply design to dev handovers on Zeplin.When...

“Design a new Login flow for a Food app”“Create an app for ride sharing”“31 days of Interactions”“Make icons for a shopping app”Dear new or aspiring UX or Product Designer, these aren’t helping you...

Photo credit Celpax“If you cannot measure it, you cannot improve it” is a management mantra that I often hear as a UX designer. But the “experience” seems to be one of those nebulous, immeasurable things. It...

A seemingly trivial choice by Microsoft will determine it.Photo: 3355m / shutterstock.comI was 26 years old when I learned the word trebuchet.It is both a medieval catapult and the name of a font — and my client...

The mark of a great designer is their awareness of system thinking.Image by Benek LisefskiWhen I encounter inexperienced designers, there’s one thing that always sticks out about the way they think. Or more...

Tools and learnings from the intersection of social entrepreneurship, product strategy, and behavioural design — a digital healthcare example.Design thrives in change, and often, it creates that change. This is...

By Carolyn Li-Madeo and Deepak MantenaWhen Apple introduced an update to widgets with iOS 14, the Wikipedia iOS team was excited to take the opportunity to rethink our own. With the ability to place widgets right on...

More Figma hacks you might not know yet.Fig Spin by MeAfter writing 10 Figma Tricks I Wish I Knew Earlier, and receiving such awesome feedback, I decided to take it a step further and share more ways that I’ve been...

The classic usability problem. Credit: GfycatRaise your hand if you had to go through the Hunger Games labyrinth to score a COVID-19 vaccine earlier this year — figuring out which phone number(s)/website(s) to...

Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.Everyone has to start somewhere, so when we teach UX we talk a lot about “the design process”. Many books outline steps as if design in the real...

Cancel noncritical meetings and see how much you can accomplishPhoto by Ethan Sees from PexelsAfter more than a year of the global pandemic, many are feeling burnt out and overextended. Balancing work, care giving, and...

Mechanics, interaction, & experience build a better system.Photo by Karthik Balakrishnan on UnsplashEveryone can agree that people love playing games! One of the earliest games created is Checkers, first invented...

PART 2© rawpixel.com — stock.adobe.comThey say “hindsight is 20/20”. It’s very true. 10 years ago I made the switch from graphic design to user experience after a 10 year stint working for print shops &...

Interview with Fabio Sasso about the balancing act of leading and managing, side projects, and setting goals for yourself.Illustrated by Shreya DamleLeading with Craft is a limited series of articles where we shed a...

Behavioral theories explain why the behavior occurs, how to achieve and maintain it.We will review 5 theories most relevant to the experience design:Transtheoretical modelTheory of planned behavior (based on the theory...

Every social media user has a problem with social media, whether they’re conscious or not. It might be Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, Youtube… we all have one.For me, it was Instagram. I think I’ve always...

When looking at recent digital interfaces, many styles rely, at some level, on bidimensional representations of physical components. Without being an article that pretends to describe in detail these styles, this text...

Treating the symptoms, and not just the causes of burnout.As a designer, I’ve experienced burnout several times throughout my career, and I’ve come to realise that it’s unreasonable during these times to look for...