A practical guide on how to choose and tweak typefaces for your design project

Using Google Fonts, Figma and your eyes Continue reading on UX Collective »

Code concepts for designers: Authentication & authorization

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..

Navigating lack of user feedback

Building a product without user input is not only difficult but also pretty dangerous, leading you up a blind alley. Continue reading on UX Collective »

Design like Elon Musk using 6 fundamental principles

How Musk’s companies are able to beat existing industry giants using 6 fundamental design principles. Continue reading on UX Collective »

Why is it so hard to break into UX?

Strategies to help you land your dream job. Continue reading on UX Collective »

Learnings from designing for multi-language user interfaces

Designing for multiple languages has had an impact on the way I approach design decisions, regardless of the product being in one or several languages. The points covered in this story are based on some of the issues I encountered when designing for an existing and functioning product that was trans..

Visualization: Your UX superpower

Your brain and design. Continue reading on UX Collective »

When does iconography start to become useless?

Those little UX crimes.Firstly, props to two sources here: This is a superb article by Mary Formanek which lets you play the icon game, and explains this in much more detail: Label your icons Secondly, another incredibly good article by Shane P Williams that has some excellent advice and sources: Ca..

Search or navigation? How familiarity affects naming and behavior

In cognitive psychology research, familiarity will cause people to use different names for an object, which may explain e-commerce users’ search or browsing behaviors.Do you know what’s in the cup in this picture?Photo by Ke Vin on UnsplashThis is the alcoholic drink — a Mojito! If your answer was “..

How to build great products

Build at the intersectionThe best products are created at the intersection of product, design, and engineering. Successful teams start, build, and finish together. Fewer handoffs, and more multidisciplinary debates and considerations. Decide at the intersectionThe best product decisions are made at ..