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How to design for weird user behavior.Photo by Luísa Schetinger on UnsplashThis article was inspired by a conversation I had with Ryan Warrender on our Podcast Design Huddle. User Fudged Experiences are when users do something unexpected with our products or service, usually in a hacky way. Here are..

Photo by Christin Hume on UnsplashIn the UX/UI design process, “usability heuristics” are broad groups of characteristics that can help designers and researchers assess how easy an interface is to learn and use. They can go a long way to give you a bit of separation from your project so you can be a..

Practicing radical empathy in product designAcknowledge your own lens and bias as the first step in empathy building for the customer. This will lead to deeper human connections and ultimately products that solve the needs of everyone.Image by Anna Shvets on PexelsEmpathy is the foundation of buildi..

Design thinking that challenges perceptions, broadens inclusion and fosters co-creation Continue reading on UX Collective »

We are 20 years into the 21st century already, but it seems that the last century has not yet left us. And I’m not talking about the fashion of always reliving some past decade to launch “aesthetic and artistic reinterpretations”. I’m talking about the fear of the unknown, about the world where we w..

Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.Generally speaking, people don’t get paid for removing features. They don’t get applause for eliminating jobs. And they rarely get promoted for telling their bosses they’ve been wasting their money. Much safer to propose something new, whi..

When the average definition of an idea starts with “the Airbnb of X” or “think about it as the Uber of Y” it’s time to change our mindset Continue reading on UX Collective »

Photo by Uri Paz on UnsplashWhy would we care about onboarding? Shouldn’t we just create a user registration form to get someone signed up and dump them into the middle of our product as quickly as possible? Changes are you won’t have much success retaining such users. You’ve spent a bunch of time, ..

Exploring an interface design tool from the late 1980s which silently revolutionized the industry forever since.Recently I was going through some early implementations of current operating systems to familiarize myself with the evolution of GUI mechanics over time. One particular thing that caught m..

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