A rant and a wishlist for ed-tech in India

Re-imagining EducationQuality Education is a service design problem.Photo by olia danilevich from Pexels(This article was “written in public”. After a skeleton draft was posted on LinkedIn and Twitter seeking feedback, the attributed responses below were used to further refine and add to the key tak..

Gutenberg & modern-day UX

How a 15th-century German goldsmith had laid the path of modern-day UX practice and philosophies.Collage by authorWell, a lot of you might be wondering what Gutenburg has to do with UX! Yes, he invented the press — which had changed the world; but was there any concept of the idea of UX back then? D..

The only way an “edit” feature on Twitter would work

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

The Single Usability Metric (SUM) — A completion rate conundrum

The Single Usability Metric (SUM) — A completion rate conundrumTL;DR — In the SUM benchmarking method, the calculation of completion rates creates a bias for completion rates which artificially inflates all ‘good’ scores and marks some ‘poor’ scores as ‘good’. I cover two methods to augment the SUM ..

Connected by light: Bringing colour to Canary Wharf

Parker Heyl x MOBSTER — Office Party/The Epiphany (2020)Written by Craig Berry Designer & Writer As we say move into spring and say goodbye to the bleak and cold winter evenings, I wanted to reflect on these ‘dark’ times through an outdoor exhibition that took place throughout the Canary Wharf Estat..

The role of transformational leadership in design

As my team has been focusing on elevating each team member, we’ve started looking at what makes a good manager and how we can train them. Continue reading on UX Collective »

UI & UX micro-tips: Volume three

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

Are bad graphical descriptions better than none to someone with vision loss?

More than 125K global websites use overlays rather than fixing their accessibility bugs. AI-generated alt-text used by overlays is not 100… Continue reading on UX Collective »

Designing a healthy society

As researchers and designers of emerging technologies, we need to reflect and ask ourselves, what’s within our power to help realize a future that invites participation from the full spectrum of human diversity.Credit: Fortune Magazine/Ultimate Software — 100 Best Places Workplaces for DiversityTher..

Implications of cross-cultural design for usability and A/B testing

Cultural background affects visual preferences, which in turn impacts how quickly people navigate websites and how much information they can remember.By Slater DesignWhen I lived in Argentina during my undergrad, I began to notice how much of the tech industry was centered in the US. I noticed how d..