How to set up a writing practice for your design team

Even if you don’t have any writers.icons8To design products, you have to write. But I’m not here to convince you. The remaining skeptics shuttered their windows after Intercom’s Senior Group Design Manager Jonathon Colman published a study showing how the world’s most popular apps dedicate over a th..

How AI programmers can give a more human touch to their work

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UX methods, WhatsApp privacy backlash, illustrations in Figma

Your weekly list of curated design resources, brought to you by your friends at the UX Collective.The most common tool, methods, processes, and deliverables that designers use throughout the digital product design process. Learn all of them, but don’t obsess about them. Our goal as designers should ..

Stop asking your users what they want

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

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..

Brutalism at its best

The days when one of architecture’s most controversial styles looks at its most resplendentThe Barbican Centre in London in all its sublimity.This morning I awoke, like I often do, and fired up my laptop from which I lazily scrolled through the various news and sports websites; an act which encompas..

Waterfall design isn’t dead, just having an identity crisis

There is a place where waterfall design belongs; And without it we’ll never keep up with rapid sprint cycles. Continue reading on UX Collective »

Empathize with your salesperson

Businesses should relook at sales strategy and indices if they want to design a great customer buying experience because customers are no more relying on sales to know about your product /services.https://www.passionateinmarketing.com/one-fifth-vehicle-buyers-in-india-dissatisfied-with-purchase-proc..

The most important soft skill for designers: Communication

Why strong communication skills are so significant to a designer’s success. 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..