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What is Random? with Pseudo-Random Numbers Continue reading on UX Collective »

Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.Generally speaking, people don’t get paid for removing features. They don’t get applause for eliminating jobs. And they rarely get promoted for telling their bosses they’ve been wasting their money. Much safer to propose something new, whi..

It is quite difficult, if not almost impossible, to obtain a personality profile of one single individual let alone to create a persona… Continue reading on UX Collective »

Empathy, empathy, empathy. It’s a term lavishly tossed about like salt at a fast-food restaurant. As designers, we have become inured to the threadbare pervasiveness that has stripped it of its essential worth. We take its meaning for granted.Munch, Edvard. “Attraction II.” 1895. Original from The A..

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..

Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.“The differences in my mind are mostly those of scope, responsibility, and visibility. As a lead designer, your focus is the project, and your responsibilities are to ensure that you work cross-functionally with PM and Engineering to deliv..

The buzzy disposable camera photo app taps into powerful human emotions to create a product experience that keeps us coming back for more. Continue reading on UX Collective »

Looking at the state of UX in open data, and tips for how to navigate the beast that is government open data. Continue reading on UX Collective »

ILLUSTRATED GUIDEAn attempt to figure out the workshop nature once and for all.We’ll skip the blah-blah about why workshops are important for product teams. Let’s better play a game. How many canvases on the picture below do you recognize? And which of them have you tried in practice? What types of ..

Good UX writing invites everyone to use the interface.There’s one piece of writing advice I give to everyone: Read your writing out loud. Yes, out loud. Not out loud in your head. Out loud out loud. Move your mouth. Make sound. Listen to your sentences. It’s a simple technique, but it works. Listeni..