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Encouragement to shift your perception of what ‘high performing’ looks like Continue reading on UX Collective »

Sight isn’t the only way to experience the world: Senses work in tandem to guide cognition, movement, and communication. Experts posit that humans possess between 9 and 33 distinct senses, yet digital design routinely ignores neurological factors beyond sight. Sensory design principles emphasize the..

Practical steps to increase your company’s chance to succeed and save your teams’ time.Making bad decisions in your design could be very expensive for the company. One bad decision could mean your entire team worked on a feature that would need another iteration or a complete removal soon. This is w..

Photo by Kelly Sikkema on UnsplashS o you’re a new Product Manager at a company. You’re excited about the opportunity but you’ve just received the third customer request this month for changes to form functionality that was released six months ago. The form was kept purposefully simple so that it co..

I sometimes wonder how the design community — a group of people who pride themselves on their empathy and ability to communicate clearly — have been able to create such an unapproachable profession. For outsiders, the litany of buzzwords, methodologies, and rules can at best confuse newcomers, and a..

https://unsplash.com/photos/ArA3S3k0wTU“So, how do you decide between user needs and business needs?”I get this question all the time. Mostly, I hear it from people who are in the process of transitioning from a post-grad program into their first UXR job at a for-profit company. It hints at an under..

Observed tensions in the user experience career progressionI’ve met user experience designers that are happy doing what they love with a strong sense of mission to change the world. I've also seen many of us going through an existential identity crisis with comparable intensity due to the vague..

What is a good admin panel design and is it worth your time? Continue reading on UX Collective »

Surprise your users with a typo-tolerant search. Let them know that you care about them and you’ll try to do your best to show some results.Everyone makes mistakes. That’s why undo/redo is a must-have for interfaces where you work on something. That’s why we add extra padding around clickable elemen..

I designed a better way to track habits and achieve goals Continue reading on UX Collective »