Challenging power dynamics and individual responsibility

Episode three. The world we live in is a complex phenomenon, where we can play different significant roles, but not determining. In other… Continue reading on UX Collective »

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. Continue reading on UX Collective »

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. T..

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. Continue reading on UX Collective »

Do we need a new approach for designing with AI?

Networked technology has networked effects. These effects are often intangibly and recursively amplified through a system when machine learning is in use. Does human-centered design still make sense when we’re designing for AI?This post considers some of the limitations of Human Centered Design for ..

How to kick-off Discovery Sprints, reframe a problem and align your team

Empower Agile teams to build the right thing.In my job as Product & Service Designer at the experience agency Accenture Interactive, I'm working on new product and service innovations for our clients. In some projects I can dedicate several weeks for user research, iterating on a value proposit..

Finding a technical cofounder

Coding skills aren’t as important as you think Continue reading on UX Collective »

Measuring design quality with heuristics

Photo by William Warby on UnsplashHow do we measure design quality? This question has been asked at every company where I’ve led design, and it comes not only from designers but from stakeholders and executives as well. Solutions range from “we’ll know it when we see it”, to principle-based evaluati..

The one design skill to unlock them all

Self-awareness will help you hire and nurture a design team that’s curious, flexible, and authentic Continue reading on UX Collective »