Is it time we start designing for deviant users?

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WhatsApp privacy update fiasco: How things could have gone better

What went wrong, and how it could have been better. Continue reading on UX Collective »

Can you quantify confidence?

The value of holistic data Continue reading on UX Collective »

Popular Design News of the Week: January 11, 2021 – January 17, 2021

Every week users submit a lot of interesting stuff on our sister site Webdesigner News, highlighting great content from around the web that can be of interest to web designers. The best way to keep track of all the great stories and news being posted is simply to check out the Webdesigner News site..

Design tokens 101

Web developers used to hard-code all of their style data. If a button needed a background color of blue, they’d assign the background… Continue reading on UX Collective »

A rant and a wishlist for ed-tech in India

Re-imagining EducationQuality Education is a service design problem.Photo by olia danilevich from Pexels(This article was “written in public”. After a skeleton draft was posted on LinkedIn and Twitter seeking feedback, the attributed responses below were used to further refine and add to the key tak..

Enterprise UX is amazing. Change my mind.

Why this under-represented but widespread design field comes with lots of unique and interesting challenges.As promised, here is a follow-up piece to my previous post — Part 1: The differences between enterprise and consumer UX. This follow-up is a bit less objective and instead, deeply rooted in my..

Prototyping the iOS navigation bar in ProtoPie

This tutorial explains how to prototype the default iOS top navigation bar in ProtoPie, so that it shrinks when scrolling. Continue reading on UX Collective »

Interfaces in the 80s: Creating GUIs before it was cool

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..

Why my mom should replace judges of design awards

Toddler explaining their mother how to use a tablet — Photo by Alexander Dummer on UnsplashI am fascinated by the winners on award websites that judge the UI of products and the realizations that are digital pieces of art. Professional designers assess several submissions and rate them on several cr..