How to kick-off Discovery Sprints, reframe a problem and align your team
Empower Agile teams to build the right thing.In my job as Product & Service Designer at the experience agency Accenture Interactive, I'm working on new product and service innovations for our clients. In some projects I can dedicate several weeks for user research, iterating on a value proposit..
Finding a technical cofounder
Coding skills aren’t as important as you think
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The no-mouse challenge: Taking the keyboard navigation red pill
Not everyone out there relies on a mouse or a trackpad when using their computers.A remake of the iconic scene from The Matrix, when Morpheus holds up two extended hands, palms facing up, respectively holding a blue and a red jelly bean.We’ve all been kicking off 2021 in a myriad of ways so far, and..
The two design skills that will matter in 2021
The design industry landscape is changing — we need to change with it to stay relevant and thrive.
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The UX of deadnaming
What happens when systems don’t know the difference between a legal name and a chosen name (and how can designers care about trans people)
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‘Get a job in UX’ promises are a scam.
No bootcamps or formulas can guarantee what companies will be looking for or how the market will behave.
— 100 design lessons for 2021
‘Get a job in UX’ promises are a scam. was originally published in UX Collective on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and respondi..
How to build a solid portfolio system in the age of design trends
The challenge of having a defined identity in the design industry today
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Discovery sprints: What they are and why you should run them
Empowering Agile teams to build the right thing.As a Product Designer at an agency, running product discoveries within a project involving a few Agile teams, I’m familiar with the struggle of squeezing discovery work into a busy Agile environment. The team is always rushing to build and release some..
Why product thinking is still missing in journalism
If you want to be successful in the media industry, you cannot avoid the connection between journalism, technology, business and usage…
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Digital images 101: all you need to know as a designer
Images are also encoded into binary just like text, but instead of characters images are made up of pixels. A pixel is the smallest element in a picture. It is basically a square representing a specific color in an image.
To help you remember: picture + element = pixel.Some common terms:
Pixel: the ..
