Rolling out Figma to the design team — tips, learnings, and challenges

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..

The COVID-driven comeback of the desktop computer

With more and more of us working from home and engaging in virtual learning, the lowly PC is suddenly a hot product again today Continue reading on UX Collective »

Empathy in the everyday: How we’re wired to make things better

Empathy has quickly captured the collective attention of the business world, including recent mentions from Google’s Chief Innovation… Continue reading on UX Collective »

‘The Design Sprint is a relevant research method’, really?

Yet another lengthy reply to Design Sprint proponents’ claims.Photo by Kumpan Electric on Unsplash🔥 TL;DR;The main claim is that the Design Sprint (Jake Knapp, Google) is a great tool for gaining a deep understanding of the problem context and users' motivations, if well executed. I reply that ..

What we learned from using a North Star

Evolving organisational priorities into measurable and trackable outcomes using a North Star Framework Continue reading on UX Collective »

In defense of design challenges

With specific conditions, of course. Continue reading on UX Collective »

Designers won’t save the world — but hopefully won’t ruin it either

Designers won’t save the world — but hopefully won’t ruin it eitherA reflection on the challenges, issues, possibilities, and dangers related to ethics while designing tomorrow’s products and services.Photo by NASA on UnsplashFor the past two weeks, I have been diving into the ethical dilemmas of ou..

Thinking beyond human-centered design

An invitation inspired by The Social Dilemma Continue reading on UX Collective »

Applying usability heuristics: How well is your competition really doing?

Photo by Christin Hume on UnsplashIn the UX/UI design process, “usability heuristics” are broad groups of characteristics that can help designers and researchers assess how easy an interface is to learn and use. They can go a long way to give you a bit of separation from your project so you can be a..

Stop asking your users what they want

Four simple tricks to improve the quality of your user interview questions Continue reading on UX Collective »