How to be a design ethicist at any company
The tech industry has immense work to do to take design ethics seriously, but you can be a leader at your company. We need you.It’s easy to feel stuck, frozen, and unsupported when trying to get your team or company to take design ethics seriously. But now more than ever, it’s so important that desi..
Bringing product thinking to any team
Imagine this scenario. A team member approaches you excitedly and says, “I just sat in this amazing sales meeting, and I have an idea for a new feature we have to build! You would click here and here, then be able to do this, and it would work like this!” Maybe your coworker is even drawing you a pi..
Bringing the Avant-garde to digital experiences
When the average definition of an idea starts with “the Airbnb of X” or “think about it as the Uber of Y” it’s time to change our mindset
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How the sausage is made, no-mouse challenge, building a portfolio system
Your weekly list of curated design resources, brought to you by your friends at the UX Collective.As designers, we are a part of something bigger than ourselves. We’re part of a system that relies on collaboration across many disciplines. Once designs leave our control, we’re not done. A lot has to ..
Process can’t compensate for lack of design vision.
— 100 design lessons for 2021
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Get Better at Branding with this Framework
Free template included for nailing your brand strategy.
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New directions: The cover story
New Directions: The Cover StoryPioneer designer Alvin Lustig’s fifty best book covers in one box.Lustig’s first cover design for New Directions, 1941The great graphic designer Milton Glaser once said, “there are three responses to a piece of design — yes, no, and WOW!”
WOW! is what you’ll say to New..
WhatsApp or Signal — or both?
WhatsApp or Signal — or both?Would you switch? How important is it for you?WhatsApp or Signal or BothThere have been a plethora of articles, news reports, facts mixed with rumours plastered all over the web being sent around to all my contacts, I myself have been inundated with messages requesting m..
Advantages of doing design research in a foreign language
Being faced with the challenge of doing research in a foreign language is scary.
A few years ago, I moved to Germany with no knowledge of German. It was a daunting move as a researcher; my skill set as a researcher depended greatly on language. Knowing how to frame and ask a question to reduce bias,..
Occam’s Razor: How did Steve Jobs follow the law of parsimony at Apple?
14th century old principle to design a simple UX.
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