It’s ok if design is “just a job” to you

I don’t know who needs to hear it. I definitely needed to hear it at (more than) one point in my life. Continue reading on UX Collective »

Is the end near for flat logo design?

Oversimplified logos: when less becomes too much.Logos speak a thousand words. A great logo can tell the story of an organization without a single word. Recently, logos from various companies have experienced a transformation. From car companies like GM, restaurants like Burger King, and food produc..

How to do user-centered design during the remote work period

The article was originally published at fraktio.fi in Finnish. The COVID-19 pandemic emptied offices worldwide and forced many of us to work remotely from their homes last spring. Consequently, designers — including myself — and teams in general have had to adjust their ways of working. Nurturing us..

Psychological principles every product designer should know

Source: Vladimir Hadzic on DribbbleIt isn’t a mystery that a large part of delivering a highly successful user experience is understanding what the customer wants/needs along with the cognition that consequently gets customers thinking about what they want/need. Psychology, thus, becomes a crucial e..

Figma for education: Design for learning experiences

Why would a teacher be interested in Figma? Why would a designer be interested in classroom prep?Join our little Figgy educators group.Currently, I work in the EdTech product design industry (K-12) as an experience designer. I am a former 7th-grade science teacher and am planning to return to the cl..

Is service design the new change management?

Organizational change can be compared to product change. It is also a design process. How a change is introduced to users (customers or… Continue reading on UX Collective »

Have we been building products all wrong?

Are opinionated products necessary for differentiation in a competitive market? Or do they impose undue limitations? Continue reading on UX Collective »

How neuroscience has deeply influenced AI cognition models

The virtues and limits of the brain-machine metaphor Continue reading on UX Collective »

Why icons alone won’t save your navigation

Photo by Brett Jordan on UnsplashThis article was inspired by a conversation I had with Ryan Warrender on our Podcast Design Huddle. There is also the old joke of a kid seeing a floppy disk for the first time and asking his Dad why he has a 3D printed version of the save icon. Well a while back when..

Are workshops ruining the UX design world?

Photo by Bonneval Sebastien via UnsplashOver the last couple of years, design thinking, design sprints, and the workshops that go with both have become increasingly popular in UX design processes. I for one have made workshop facilitation a primary function in my process. There are a lot of articles..