Decolonizing design, NFTs, designing your love life — and more this week

Decolonizing design, NFTs, designing your love life — and more this weekWeekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.“Turning designers into managers is almost like taking stellar surgeons and giving them the responsibilities of running the hospital”. Shawn Park, Staff Product Design..

A checklist for behavioral design

The list I refer to kickoff projects, brainstorm solutions, and keep my own biases in check. Continue reading on UX Collective »

It is your intro, make sure it counts

First impression matters, and should be memorable. This is why and how.Photo by Adam Solomon on Unsplash“Hi everyone, my name is Tom,” said the new joiner “this is my first week here, I used to work for X as a senior product designer, and before that, I worked at Y. I’m really excited to be here and..

How AI could get a deeper understanding of human language

The basis of human flexible thinking are analogy Continue reading on UX Collective »

Why would we care about user onboarding?

Photo by Uri Paz on UnsplashWhy would we care about onboarding? Shouldn’t we just create a user registration form to get someone signed up and dump them into the middle of our product as quickly as possible? Changes are you won’t have much success retaining such users. You’ve spent a bunch of time, ..

Want to build a great site map? Look outside your team.

Open card sorting can reveal the insights that make your website a joy to use … or easy to hate.Illustration by Icons 8 from Icons8At work recently, I was in a meeting to talk about a subsection of the company’s website. Everyone seemed to have a different, conflicting opinion about how to reorganiz..

How the brain can read and feel any sensory data streams

The rise of neuroprosthetics and Human-augmenting Technologies Continue reading on UX Collective »

Am I going to work with people who inspire me?

Interview with John Ferguson about design excellence and non-linear career paths in design.Illustrated by Shreya DamleLeading with Craftis a limited series of articles where we shed a light on stories of designers with successful careers as individual contributors. Curating and publishing hundreds o..

Think about your Hmmms — tips for better UX research

In one crazy year, a pandemic struck and I had an opportunity to become a better behavioral scientist and researcher. Continue reading on UX Collective »

Understanding data feminism

A new way of thinking about data science and data ethics, informed by the ideas of intersectional feminism.by Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein Introduction: We wrote this book because we are data scientists and data feminists. Although we speak as a “we” in this book, and share certain identi..