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Neumorphism? Glassmorphism? Material Design? All design trends can be accessible. Continue reading on UX Collective »

As a UX designer, I am often tasked with making user personas to better understand a target audience for a product or service. For this particular client, I was working with, they told me their core user group were women age fifty and older. I was surprised, this demographic is often overlooked in t..

People who are interested in AI often ask me what an AI designer is,and I’ve attempted to answer that question in this article. I wanted to go a step further, by helping designers and product teams understand how designing AI-based product experiences is different from traditional product design. He..

Things I wish I knew going into the feedback cycle. Continue reading on UX Collective »

We often fear giving our users too much information. But doing so comes with a cost and the check engine light is a prime example. Continue reading on UX Collective »

A take on Design Token definition, organization, and specificity.A Design System’s strength comes from knowinghow and when to apply options (like purple-40 or color-warning) correctly to contexts (like backgrounds or typography). This grounds the option as a design decision or what is known as a Des..

I built a research repository in Jira and wanted to get my process down in writing for those in the same boat I was in: weighing the pros and cons of Jira without a guide.Photos by Hannah Pemberton and Lama RoscuUX repositories are critical, but selecting the right platform for your organization is ..

Habits and their role in design.In the world of new technologies and the user experience designed around them, we are often stuck within the thought of “newer is always better!” We soon find that this isn’t always the case, complaining that it’s hard to use, or not as good as we thought. But why so?..

Build at the intersectionThe best products are created at the intersection of product, design, and engineering. Successful teams start, build, and finish together. Fewer handoffs, and more multidisciplinary debates and considerations. Decide at the intersectionThe best product decisions are made at ..

Diversity needs to be at the core of a company’s values, not just a hiring metric. When that’s the case, diversity goes beyond ethnicity and gender, and includes diversity of lived experiences, ability, and generations. — 100 design lessons for 2021 It’s time we look at diversity beyond conventional..