UI Design

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..

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..

Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, are unique and distinct bitcoin assets. While one Bitcoin is identical to and interchangeable with another, each NFT is unique, with distinguishing metadata and identification codes. NFTs are certificates of a..

Product designer’s guide to working in techPhoto by Matheus Bertelli on PexelsCareer perceptionFor us, designers (or people who work in creative industries) career helps to define who we are as human beings. It’s part of our identity and has an effect on ourselves, our family, as well as our surroun..

Let’s talk about what early-career UX folks should put in their portfolio and in interviews, especially when searching for the first job. Continue reading on UX Collective »

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..

Your weekly list of curated design resources, brought to you by your friends at the UX Collective.There is a portion of the American legal system under the category of negligence called “strict product liability,” also referred to as SPL. Under SPL, anyone in the product chain (seller, distributor, ..

Framer is still alive and well… and it’s a game-changerA love letter to my prototyping tool of choice.Earlier, this week, this post came across my feed: “Framer is Dead.” Impossible. I’ve been using it non-stop for the past month. Sadly, this post has gotten some traction, and I’ve seen it pop-up on..

Opportunities and risks to watch out in 2021’s digital revolution Continue reading on UX Collective »

The article was originally published at fraktio.fi in Finnish. The COVID-19 pandemic emptied offices worldwide and forced many of us to work remotely from their homes last spring. Consequently, designers — including myself — and teams in general have had to adjust their ways of working. Nurturing us..