Figma for education: Design for learning experiences
Why would a teacher be interested in Figma? Why would a designer be interested in classroom prep?Join our little Figgy educators group.Currently, I work in the EdTech product design industry (K-12) as an experience designer. I am a former 7th-grade science teacher and am planning to return to the cl..
There’s something wrong with the User Experience Designer title
I’m a UX Designer and the UX title is making no sense to me.“Experience” encompasses everything and it’s unfair with the UX Designer and with whoever is working with UXers.
Photo is taken by Lubos Volkov, via UnsplashI haven't yet come across an industry that has its discipline as a continuousl..
What this pandemic has taught us about your inaccessible website…
Do you ever stop to wonder what your life would look like if, all of a sudden, the Internet was taken away from you?
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How to maintain quality with a UX checklist
If you were to buy a car tomorrow, which makes would you consider? Assuming that you had a sensible budget (no supercars I’m afraid) would you consider a Ford, a BMW, a Tesla, a GM, an Audi, a Jaguar, a Toyota perhaps? Of the countless makes that you could choose, there is a pretty good change that ..
Our industry needs a transparent career path that rewards our craft
Interview with Gabriel Valdivia about his career journey building teams, products, and bringing the craft along the way.Gabriel Valdivia, illustrated by Shreya DamleLeading with Craftis a limited series of articles where we shed a light on stories of designers with successful careers as individual c..
What human collective intelligence can teach to AI
The power of cumulative cultural evolution
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How to set up a writing practice for your design team
Even if you don’t have any writers.icons8To design products, you have to write. But I’m not here to convince you. The remaining skeptics shuttered their windows after Intercom’s Senior Group Design Manager Jonathon Colman published a study showing how the world’s most popular apps dedicate over a th..
Designers: mind your language
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..
“What if we just…?”
A designer’s worst nightmare
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