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New Directions: The Cover StoryPioneer designer Alvin Lustig’s fifty best book covers in one box.Lustig’s first cover design for New Directions, 1941The great graphic designer Milton Glaser once said, “there are three responses to a piece of design — yes, no, and WOW!” WOW! is what you’ll say to New..

Gamifying an introduction to speculative and values-driven design Continue reading on UX Collective »

Data ethics principles and processes are useful, but they are often of limited use when it comes to addressing the social and environmental harms of the data economy. This post is about using creative R&D to build data technologies that embed a different set of values from the ground up, balancing e..

As an efficiency-focused transformational function, DesignOps needs to be able to quantify and measure impact and results. Identifying the right goals and defining the right KPIs are therefore essential steps for every DesignOps strategy and roadmap to ensure impact and progress can be objectively a..

A few working frameworks for PMs, execs, small teams, and startups.You can’t change what you don’t measure — and measurement is a core challenge of building inclusive products. In this post, we’ll cover micro-level quantitative frameworks for measuring product inclusion and product equity — areas li..

We all hate to look at our old work. Yuk! Blech! But as songwriters say “it’s all in the rewrite”!Girl sketching on iPad (refactored from several years ago 🙌🏽)As I come up close to the end of my current contract I find myself in that “what’s next” place where I need to get out and promote myself som..

Today Microsoft Windows is installed on about 75% of personal computers in the world. But how did it begin? Let’s test the first versions… Continue reading on UX Collective »

Here’s what the Covid-19 lockdowns have revealed about teen depression. Continue reading on UX Collective »

Image of quote — Expose yourselfEminence or exposure is this important “thing” that often gets overseen. Designers and non-designers often think they don’t have time or that they have nothing special to offer. Working on yourself or your personal brand can actually be a daunting task, a blocker for ..

Chess & Information Architecture — An introductionBelieve it or not, reading the IA standard — Information Architecture for the Web and Beyond — got me into chess.If you don’t know what information architecture is and how it fits into UX, I have a blog post here. It’s funny, I sort of stumbled into ..