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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..

The second part of the ‘Design debt 101’ seriesThis article references information from the ‘what’ and ‘why’ of design debt. Please, consider reading it for more context before moving forward. In this piece, we’ll dive into the topic of measuring design debt. I’ll walk you through the qualitative an..

A couple years ago I wrote about how healthcare should take customer experience guru Dan Gingiss’s advice: do simple better. Now new research illustrates why this is so hard: when it comes to trying to make improvements, people would rather add than subtract. That, in a nutshell, may help explain wh..

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Don’t get me wrong, I’m a big fan of experimentation and metrics-driven product development. It brings scientific evidence to decision… Continue reading on UX Collective »

Chess & Information Architecture — An introductionBelieve it or not, reading the IA standard — Information Architecture for the Web and Beyond — got me into chess.If you don’t know what information architecture is and how it fits into UX, I have a blog post here. It’s funny, I sort of stumbled into ..

What is Auth?Those of us who don’t spend our days writing code often think of logging in to an application as one simple, bundled process of declaring who we are with our user ID and password. Behind the scenes, there are actually two important, independent components at play: authentication and aut..

Illustration designed by the author. Inspired by Euro notesMy goal for writing this article is to amplify the business value that design can have beyond product and UX. It’s an attempt to broaden perspectives on the role of design in business, and what people think about when they hear or say “Desig..

“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.” is perhaps the most misused quote in the world (and was never said by Henry Ford by the way). Echo and Narcissus by John William Waterhouse.While its signification is quite clear (people wanted things to go faster, they ex..

Companies have paid lip service to our digital wellbeing for too long. Now we need to see real change. Continue reading on UX Collective »