Rest in pieces, phonebloks

Phonebloks, or when radical design intersected the long road to reliable and repairable objects Continue reading on UX Collective »

Framer is still alive and well… and its a game-changer

Framer is still alive and well… and it’s a game-changerA love letter to my prototyping tool of choice.Earlier, this week, this post came across my feed: “Framer is Dead.” Impossible. I’ve been using it non-stop for the past month. Sadly, this post has gotten some traction, and I’ve seen it pop-up on..

Interrelationships in design systems

While talking about design systems, I recognized that we are mostly talking about pattern libraries. A functioning design system not also consists of the building blocks themselves but also has a set of rules that form the glue between components and people. I was involved in the creation of the des..

User Experience is… inspecting and adapting both UX and Agile

No one really does true scrum, instead most people do ‘scrum and …’ or ‘scrum but …’ Continue reading on UX Collective »

A four-layer model of product focus

If you’ve struggled in the past to relate a lofty, aspirational Product Vision to your day-to-day work, this layered architecture may help… Continue reading on UX Collective »

How to find and keep a valuable mentor

An etiquette guide for the driven, yet considerate, mentee Continue reading on UX Collective »

Designing efficient teams

Positioning and introducing DesignOps in your teams’ lives.Credits: https://www.pexels.com/@kaboompicsYes, DesignOps is a thing.And it is growing fast, establishing itself as an emerging function that actively supports teams and organisations to scale through the design of efficient Design teams. De..

Deep dive: Mobile design principles and best practices

Most mobile experiences suffer from poor UX because their creators failed to observe mobile UX design principles and best practices. These fundamental tenets of mobile usability have been developed over time through meticulous research and user testing. Applying them with rigor will enable designers..

How thinking like a developer can help you create more realistic prototypes

ProtoPie is an interaction design tool that affords advanced capabilities enabling designers to create bigger more realistic experiences… Continue reading on UX Collective »

How to do user-centered design during the remote work period

The article was originally published at fraktio.fi in Finnish. The COVID-19 pandemic emptied offices worldwide and forced many of us to work remotely from their homes last spring. Consequently, designers — including myself — and teams in general have had to adjust their ways of working. Nurturing us..