How to make sure your audience understands your visualization
User test to see if your message is understood
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Is it time we start designing for deviant users?
Enter the UX Risk Designer
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Universal design for learning for students with Autism
Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a research-based set of principles that together form a practical framework for using technology to…
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Interaction design is more than just user flows and clicks
How to evaluate interaction costs and improve UX.
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The best design conversations won’t be televised.
When a designer shares their career trajectory publicly, it’s been curated. When they speak about “what it’s like to work at Google”, that story has been vetted by Google’s PR team. When they post something on Linkedin, they focus only on what will make them look good. When there’s an audience, ther..
Why planning is hard
Behaviors & biases in planningPhoto by Hans-Peter GausterThe past few months have been pretty busy at work. We’ve started an exercise where we are evaluating a product — currently manufactured in our European & North American factories — to be manufactured in our Asian factories to serve the regiona..
Creating invisible experiences
As a young designer, I would always be extremely stoked to see my designs in action. I’d put in hours and hours into creating pixel-perfect prototypes filled with wonderful micro-interactions. I’d make sure every icon was animated to perfection and the timing was not off by even a millisecond. I too..
“We cannot afford to focus on UX, we are not even profitable”
How to measure User Experience to meet business goals.Photo by Morning BrewQuite often, user satisfaction and business success are understood as opposite poles of the same axis. You either please your users by working on aesthetic functionalities, or you focus on business-driven initiatives. In too ..
Tell me when to use it
“Here’s our cool new audio tagging AI thingy. It identifies and labels sounds in real-time without an internet connection.”“Wow, cool, neat!”…then they proceed to never use it.
Telling me when to use something is a growth hack. It helps shape a future situation into an organic reminder.
“Here’s our ..
Design systems: Working on the right level
Of all the risks with adopting a design system, the most dangerous one is to keep working the same way. If that happens, what we have adopted is not a design system, but rather a UI component library. We might see benefits in the beginning: the UI looking fresher and more consistent, components nice..
