The most important soft skill for designers: Communication

Why strong communication skills are so significant to a designer’s success. Continue reading on UX Collective »

In search of the perfect search for Wikipedia

The Android app team improved one of their core features- searching for articles on Wikipedia. While we were making discovery more intelligent, personalized and efficient, we experienced a surprise.Original image by Alan Wilson, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsBy Robin Schoenbaechler In a recent ..

Where there is beauty

How People Are Neurologically Attracted To Certain Things, and Why We Should Seek To Make Places as Instagrammable as Possible Continue reading on UX Collective »

My love letter to Adobe Flash

How Flash changed my life and what it has taught me about the future.https://medium.com/media/c961471ebb81d1ab3d20c4460e9f2b48/hrefFor those of us who came of age in the Dot Com Boom of the late ’90s and early 2000s, Flash was one of the most creatively liberating web technologies to ever come along..

In defense of design challenges

With specific conditions, of course. Continue reading on UX Collective »

The invisible hand that gave students the middle finger

And why it made universities vulnerable to disruption. Continue reading on UX Collective »

User Experience is … providing game changing experience visions

How experience design thinking can influence organisations, corporate visions, strategies and build of products through experience visions. Continue reading on UX Collective »

Is User Experience (UX) taking over Customer Experience (CX)?

Prospective customers are becoming product users much earlier in the customer journey. As a result, teams and tools are overlapping more than ever.Nowhere is this change more dramatic than in SaaS companies, where most of the customer experience used to take place outside of the product: Just an exa..

How we run Product Discovery at a design agency

What, when, why, who, and how. Some basics about product discovery and the adjustments we made to fit an agency set-up. Continue reading on UX Collective »

From scientific racism to inclusive design

Bias, brains, and skulls.The impact of bias in every aspect of our lives — services, technology, and government — is again at the forefront of our cultural psyche. Experts and advocates have been raising the alarm about the implications of bias in data and how it feeds into every aspect of our socie..