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Sometimes to change your opinion, you have to force yourself to look at things differently. Continue reading on UX Collective »

We all hate to look at our old work. Yuk! Blech! But as songwriters say “it’s all in the rewrite”!Girl sketching on iPad (refactored from several years ago 🙌🏽)As I come up close to the end of my current contract I find myself in that “what’s next” place where I need to get out and promote myself som..

Cognitive bias with tools in UX and beyond. Continue reading on UX Collective »

A collection of handy tips to help improve your designs instantly. Continue reading on UX Collective »

Insights from 156 people writing emails with AI in the loopOriginal photo by cottonbro from Pexels.We built a prototype AI email editor with text generation from Natural Language Processing (NLP) and asked 156 people to write emails with it. We compared different UI settings and use by native or non..

How to provide what users want, while keeping them accountable for what they tweet Continue reading on UX Collective »

Today there are more things fighting for our attention than ever before. We are constantly juggling work, family, and social lives. What we don’t realize is, try as we might to multitask, our attention span is quite limited. Recent findings suggest that we can hold about four items (plus or minus 1)..

Building trust and rapport are key as we invite others to share, yet we must remain vigilant and combat confirmation bias Continue reading on UX Collective »

Attribution: Kenneth AllenIt has now been 4 months and 14 days since my job at IBM dissolved, and on August 18th, I accepted a contract role to become a Principal UX Designer for PayPal, started yesterday (September 14). Big sigh of relief for me. On Twitter, I noticed a designer (https://twitter.co..

Insights from 30 years of watching men and women shop and manage retail companies Continue reading on UX Collective »