Unsplash: Where are all the women?
As a UX designer, I am often tasked with making user personas to better understand a target audience for a product or service. For this particular client, I was working with, they told me their core user group were women age fifty and older. I was surprised, this demographic is often overlooked in t..
What your workspace can(’t) do for you
A guide with things you already know but keep ignoring.
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Jobs-based business strategy: business language
As digital products grow in complexity, there comes a need for a businesses to start dividing up responsibility across cross-functional teams. These divisions of responsibility, while necessary, usually end up creating communication barriers in the organization (Edmondson, 2012), better known as “si..
What does “after UX” even mean?
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-..
Visualization: Your UX superpower
Your brain and design.
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The problem with Dribbble-esque design
The dangers of Dribbble-esque designsDribbble-esque: adjective — A characteristic of the poor usability and nightmarish qualities that come with Dribbble posts.After some research about this topic, I found out that I am not the only one who thinks there's a problem with the Dribbble trend. Ther..
Using treemaps to understand hierarchical data
How to make sense of a complex visualization technique
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Title case vs sentence case in UX writing
Breaking down the pros & cons of using Title or Sentence case when writing UX copy.
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The evolution of usability in chess
Modern chess design has stood the test of time, but that wasn’t always the case. Sometimes less is more.Chess has a long history, it dates back to the 7th century in India, where it was created as a war game. In some ways, a lot of the game has remained unchanged since the creation, but there have b..
Measuring design debt
The second part of the ‘Design debt 101’ seriesThis article references information from the ‘what’ and ‘why’ of design debt. Please, consider reading it for more context before moving forward.
In this piece, we’ll dive into the topic of measuring design debt. I’ll walk you through the qualitative an..
