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Let’s talk about the future of design?© Hunter HaleyNot infrequently, in this or that debate or article, we have witnessed the exercise of trying to imagine what the digital industry will look like in the future and more specifically what should be the skills of designers, be it UX or any other disc..

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..

The dangers of Dribbble-esque designsDribbble-esque: adjective — A characteristic of the poor usability and nightmarish qualities that come with Dribbble posts.After some research about this topic, I found out that I am not the only one who thinks there's a problem with the Dribbble trend. Ther..

FaceTime’s bad UX almost cost me a month’s rent Continue reading on UX Collective »

I am often underwhelmed and decidedly un-delighted when faced with managing my account on your site. Here’s how to make it better. Continue reading on UX Collective »

A framework for successful stakeholder engagement Continue reading on UX Collective »

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 ..

Data ethics principles and processes are useful, but they are often of limited use when it comes to addressing the social and environmental harms of the data economy. This post is about using creative R&D to build data technologies that embed a different set of values from the ground up, balancing e..

Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.Generally speaking, people don’t get paid for removing features. They don’t get applause for eliminating jobs. And they rarely get promoted for telling their bosses they’ve been wasting their money. Much safer to propose something new, whi..

Photo by Karen Lau on UnsplashWhat is a mental shotgun?we often compute much more than we want or need. I call this excess computation the mental shotgun — Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and SlowDaniel Kahneman’s states in his book that we don’t have much control over how our brain makes sense of t..