How we migrated our design team to Figma

Part 1: Tools, costs, and learnings from other design teamsAs the coronavirus hit the travel industry earlier this year, the design team at Agoda looked at how we could save costs without sacrificing the quality of the work we’re doing. The collaborative features and the opportunity to shrink the co..

Interrelationships in design systems

While talking about design systems, I recognized that we are mostly talking about pattern libraries. A functioning design system not also consists of the building blocks themselves but also has a set of rules that form the glue between components and people. I was involved in the creation of the des..

I don’t know anyone using InVision Studio, and that’s too bad

The more you hype your product, the more people expect. Continue reading on UX Collective »

Want to build a great site map? Look outside your team.

Open card sorting can reveal the insights that make your website a joy to use … or easy to hate.Illustration by Icons 8 from Icons8At work recently, I was in a meeting to talk about a subsection of the company’s website. Everyone seemed to have a different, conflicting opinion about how to reorganiz..

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..

Prototyping the iOS navigation bar in ProtoPie

This tutorial explains how to prototype the default iOS top navigation bar in ProtoPie, so that it shrinks when scrolling. Continue reading on UX Collective »

Winning at performance reviews

One of the most stressful and time-intensive periods of my Facebook tenure was the performance review cycles that happened every 6 months… Continue reading on UX Collective »

The A to Z of UX — H is for Heuristics: 10 UX principles to assess...

Heuristics are a well established and accepted list of UX principles used to assess how well a user interface has been designed for its… Continue reading on UX Collective »

The role of transformational leadership in design

As my team has been focusing on elevating each team member, we’ve started looking at what makes a good manager and how we can train them. Continue reading on UX Collective »

Robinhood app and why not all things should be gamified

The role of UX in the gamification of Finance Continue reading on UX Collective »