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Interview with Madhavi Jagdish about her career path from leading a team to leading with craftLeading with Craftis a limited series of articles where we shed a light on stories of designers with successful careers as individual contributors. Curating and publishing hundreds of articles every month a..

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..

I have personally done some of my best work as part of a design culture in which viewpoints are freely exchanged and argued upon. I started thinking about the importance of such a design culture and drafted out guidelines for the remote working environment due to a worldwide pandemic.My main takeawa..

How lockdown has taught designers to truly understand their clients.Image by Rikki StoreyAs the UK passes a sobering milestone marking a year since the first lockdown was announced, I have realised two truths: As designers, we don’t truly understand the impact our clients experience during periods o..

Omertà is an Italian word that refers to a code of silence and honour. Synonymous with the Mafia, it places importance on silence in the face of questioning from outsiders. Omertà doesn’t just exist in the murky criminal underworld. Doping athletes such as the now-disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong h..

Conversational UX Journeys: Sometimes a written page is worth a thousand pictures.User Journey template from MiroToo many boxes, not enough humans.A while back, I started to feel that jumping into sticky note based associative brainstorming, mocking out user flows, and even sketching quick UI with p..

If teams aren’t purposeful about the way they work together, the default is going to be chaotic.(Watch the video of this content presented at the TNW Couch Conference from March 2020 and the follow up article here) When it comes to building the best digital products and experiences, design and devel..

Heuristics are a well established and accepted list of UX principles used to assess how well a user interface has been designed for its… Continue reading on UX Collective »

A lonely designer’s critique of today, and a renewed purpose of the social value of design for tomorrow. Continue reading on UX Collective »