Journey Mapping

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Those that have managed designers or who have hired one for a freelance project know that not every project goes smoothly. This often isn’t a lack of skills or experience on the designer’s part, but a lack of properly managing the designer’s role in the project. A designer’s involvement should be mo..

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Twitch rolled out several new content moderation changes in December. Not everyone was happy. Continue reading on UX Collective »

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How confronting my Imposter Syndrome led me to redefine growth based on values, not goals. Continue reading on UX Collective »

How to write a concept page — A practical examplePhoto by vaun0815 on UnsplashThe speed and success of your project rely heavily on effective UX documentation. Boring, you say? Pish posh! A properly documented design is a design challenge in itself. Each time you face the challenges of documenting your design, you will become a better designer — you can be sure of it. Let’s call it a concept page. A concept page is a document that you use to explain your design in detail to others. The role of a concept page has three important phases: Before production: You create the concept page when you start working on a project. It’s not yet shared with the team. Rather, it’s your space to collect all your findings, market research, competitor benchmarking, wireframes, usability tests and initial drafts. Slowly, your concept page evolves into a finished concept.At production start: the concept page is presented to the team when you have a validated, finished concept, ready for production.During p..

Design Sprint is a fantastic tool in the innovation toolbox. But just as real tools, it works well for specific tasks and bad for others. What criteria should a good sprint question meet?This post is a modification of the original post published on Frankwatching.nl (in Dutch). Design thinking is sim..

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Me, I really dislike FOUT. I like that it’s an option, because not displaying text quickly on the web is no good. I know font-display: swap; is popular because it’s good for performance, but that FOUT stuff pains me. Matt Hobbs: If there’s one thing I’d like readers to take away from this post it’..