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Rolling out Figma to the design team — tips, learnings, and challengesPart 3: How we migrated our design team to Figma.Illustration by Alexander FandénAs the coronavirus hit the travel industry earlier this year, the design team at Agoda looked at how we could save costs without sacrificing the qual..

One Figma component — 3,360 VariantsOne component to rule them all.In my work as a UX Lead at REI, I frequently contribute to our design system, Cedar. Most recently, I’ve been focusing on improving the accessibility of our form elements. It turned out that these UI components posed the perfect oppo..

Building experience design into the organisation from organisational design through to mature design thinking within product teams. Continue reading on UX Collective »

Companies have paid lip service to our digital wellbeing for too long. Now we need to see real change. Continue reading on UX Collective »

CreditFOMO is defined as the apprehension that one is either not in-the-know or missing out on information, events, experiences, or decisions that could make their life better. But we don’t need to be told that, do we? A majority of us have experienced FOMO, the fear of missing out, personally. It i..

A few things I have learned along the way about design and business that have stood the test of time.My design career — if I can call it that — has now spanned multiple decades. The first thing I created that I would consider a proper design was a seven-inch record for a friend’s band sometime in th..

Defining the parts and the 5 questions to drive development forward.In 2014 I build what I called my first proper UI component library. What made it proper was the fact that I could reuse components and combine them to create new components and layouts. I called it the “prototype machine” because it..

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The prescription vs. the platform approach.Picture Jon. Jon is a first adopter (early consumer) of a startup that’s trying to design a better way to roast salmon using a toaster oven. He’s smart, 35, and a working professional. He spends his evenings answering work emails and watching Dora the Explo..

SourceWe shouldn’t have to pitch the need to integrate this into our digital work process. Building solutions that are inclusive is part of our responsibility as designers. Everyone should care about creating solutions that a bigger audience can use. But that’s not always the case. In fact, that’s a..