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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 »

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..

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

Here’s what the Covid-19 lockdowns have revealed about teen depression. Continue reading on UX Collective »

A portrait of a human, with deep-looking eyes and a painted face. Source: Loner WolfA design philosophy incorporates not only the professional expertise of a designer but also an essential part of his personality. It is the core motivation, the base for every successful project, and the anchoring po..

Design and music intersect in many areas; fashion, art, filmmaking and set design, yet one relatively obscure but staggeringly creative area is in the design of graphic notation used by composers. Graphic notation is one side that is relatively unknown outside the sometimes rarefied world of orchest..

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..

Stop fishing for insights — crafting well-formed UX research questions will enable you to produce actionable insights, quickly. Continue reading on UX Collective »

From March to May 2017, I picked up 3D modeling skills. I started with zero 3D experience (couldn’t even play 3D games well), and I’m now able to create almost everything I want in the low poly style. My models also won an honorable mention and a staff pick on Sketchfab. I want to share this journey..

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..