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Step off of the design portfolio assembly line with some critical thinking Continue reading on UX Collective »

You have dreamed of this very moment. The time has come when all of your hard work, perhaps months of research, designing, stakeholder reviews, maybe some tears is finally being put into implementation. That beautiful moment every Designer waits for: Engineering Handoff. You think to yourself: “go m..

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..

How viral “top of the iceberg” advice could do more harm than good.Teisanu Tudor shared a riveting account of how they pretended to be an instagram UX influencer a few months back. From their experience, it seems that unfortunately, lots of popular content positions UX as this “happy, easy, 10-step-..

Neumorphism? Glassmorphism? Material Design? All design trends can be accessible. Continue reading on UX Collective »

A few things I have learned along the way about design and business that have stood the test of time.My design career — if I can call it that — has now spanned multiple decades. The first thing I created that I would consider a proper design was a seven-inch record for a friend’s band sometime in th..

Exploring an interface design tool from the late 1980s which silently revolutionized the industry forever since.Recently I was going through some early implementations of current operating systems to familiarize myself with the evolution of GUI mechanics over time. One particular thing that caught m..

Crypto design, revolutionary UIs, VHS tapes visual gloryWeekly curated resources for designers — both thinkers and makers.If you’re a designer and you also love researching things, you should probably buy some cryptocurrency. The goal of this exercise should be to familiarize yourself with a future ..

What happens when systems don’t know the difference between a legal name and a chosen name (and how can designers care about trans people) Continue reading on UX Collective »

Source: Alexander Shatov on UnsplashThe ability to have a conversation with people (in the meatspace) about anything, be it riveting updates from the world and its messy politics to simple banal life updates from the day, is one thing that we all miss in this pandemic. Paul Davison and Rohan Seth ca..