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The job ad said “content designer”. The interviewer was very keen to hear about your content design experience, and spoke animatedly about the organisation moving to a user-centred design approach.But by mid-morning of your first day, perhaps sooner, you know. Photo by Matthew T Rader on UnsplashSpi..

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Looking at the state of UX in open data, and tips for how to navigate the beast that is government open data. Continue reading on UX Collective »

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New Directions: The Cover StoryPioneer designer Alvin Lustig’s fifty best book covers in one box.Lustig’s first cover design for New Directions, 1941The great graphic designer Milton Glaser once said, “there are three responses to a piece of design — yes, no, and WOW!” WOW! is what you’ll say to New..

Have you ever considered yourself an intuitive designer? Or is the idea of intuition something that you consider as disconnected from the design profession? Something to be wary of? Or something to be used and celebrated in your design practice?In Season 8 of Catching The Next Wave podcast, we’ve de..

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..

What type of investor is Coinbase designed for? — a UX analysisChart view of coinbase appFor a product that is leading the crypto exchange space, there are some glaring weaknesses in the current Coinbase iOS design. I started investing in Bitcoin back in September of 2020. I am fascinated with decen..

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