Design can be fun when we remove the gatekeepers.
— 100 design lessons for 2021
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“Your work is done when it looks so simple that the consumer thinks they...
“Your work is done when it looks so simple that the consumer thinks they could’ve done it, which means they won’t appreciate how hard you worked.”Artists, designers, writers, and anyone else who produces creative work, this is a must-read essay by David Perell: Expression is Compression.
Some of my ..
17 slick examples of websites built with no-code
Getting your ideas and products out into the world doesn’t have to be complicated anymore.
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Routine building with system wide meta-layers
Imagining a tech integration to help us follow routines and achieve goalsWhile many people do their new years resolutions and define personal goals for the next year, it shows that goals themselves do not by themselves lead to behavioral change. Instead, the system in which you act needs to change i..
UX Research isn’t a bottleneck, it’s a decanter
Photo from PexelsI’ve noticed a concerning trend in UX in the past few months. Earlier this year, a friend sent me a post citing the shift at Uber from UX research to A/B tests as proof that researchers were getting in the way of decision making. At a recent virtual UXR conference, I read a number o..
New takes on UX Research from emerging professions
Most people still don't exactly know what we do. Let's turn that into an advantage
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Why we don’t like to wait and how to improve the user experience through...
Yeah, we don’t like to wait. Either in a supermarket line or loading a website. It is at our core.
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Create a button component with Figma Variants + Auto Layout
Early this year, I posted an article about create button components using Figma’s Auto Layout. Over the past few months, Figma had dramatically improved their Auto Layout. YES! They finally allow you to adjust the spacing individually!! That was my biggest complaint about Auto Layout at that time.
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Retrofitting for an accessible colour palette: beyond the “nice-to-have” improvement
According to the Web AIM million survey, 86.3% of the million home pages they analysed have low text contrast. It is the most common issue they found. However, web accessibility is becoming a more and more important topic. In Europe and according to the Accessibility Web Directive, content creators ..
This simple story can help you explain UX and UI design
And why you can’t have one without the other.
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