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Real-world talk about the importance of a designer’s own awareness as told by a humbled dad-designer. Continue reading on UX Collective »

Here’s what you need to know about conducting design research for an early-stage startup. Continue reading on UX Collective »

What is Auth?Those of us who don’t spend our days writing code often think of logging in to an application as one simple, bundled process of declaring who we are with our user ID and password. Behind the scenes, there are actually two important, independent components at play: authentication and aut..

Practicing radical empathy in product designAcknowledge your own lens and bias as the first step in empathy building for the customer. This will lead to deeper human connections and ultimately products that solve the needs of everyone.Image by Anna Shvets on PexelsEmpathy is the foundation of buildi..

Your weekly list of curated design resources, brought to you by your friends at the UX Collective.There is a portion of the American legal system under the category of negligence called “strict product liability,” also referred to as SPL. Under SPL, anyone in the product chain (seller, distributor, ..

Today I’ll be translating TikTok’s biggest competitor, RED App, to show you what might be coming to the US from the eyes of a designer. Continue reading on UX Collective »

Have you ever considered yourself an intuitive designer? Or is the idea of intuition something that you consider as disconnected from the design profession? Something to be wary of? Or something to be used and celebrated in your design practice?In Season 8 of Catching The Next Wave podcast, we’ve de..

The skill you may not have realized you had Continue reading on UX Collective »

Designers must be agents of privacy change: they have the tools to understand and predict the future and should have the power to change… Continue reading on UX Collective »

Have you ever considered what assumptions do people bring with them when they are attending your user research (I am talking about a concept or a prototype evaluation here, in particular)? And how do these assumptions impact the feedback you collect? There is fascinating research about the way we le..