UX

Various stimuli made me think about the topic of staying relevant lately.Glasses by Xinh Studio and Binoculars by Tom Ingebretsen, from the Noun Project.The key contributor, I think, is the constant reminder of how highly valued a glossy surface is. A slick and modern UI will get the votes in 2020 (..

Creating video is time consuming. A well-made 5-minute video can take hours to plan, record, and edit — and that’s before we start talking about making that video consistent with all the other videos on your site. When we took on the Jamstack Explorers project (a video-driven educational resource f..

Josh Comeau covers the concept of margin collapsing: This idea might sound simple, but if you’ve been writing CSS for a while, you’ve almost certainly been surprised when margins either don’t collapse, or they collapse in weird and unexpected ways. In real-world projects, all kinds of circumstances..

3 Scenarios for how UX applies psychological flexibility to its practice. Continue reading on UX Collective »

Photo by Fotis Fotopoulos on UnsplashIt isn’t uncommon to have a lot of ideas on a product backlog. Ideas flow in from executives, customers, sales, support, and just about everyone. It is common to hear that a good Product Manager is one who knows how to say “no”. I would take it a step further and..

A journey from a third-year Computer Science student to a designer at Google. The highs, the lows, and everything in between.Some folks started counting it as a new decade at the start of 2020, and I mostly agree with them. Let’s just say I procrastinated to write about the events of ten years by a ..

2021: The year to recalibrate PersonasPhoto by Immo Wegmann on Unsplash2020 has been, without question, a year of disruption, uncertainty, and unknown territories; with a pandemic that shifted routines and daily lives came a flux in consumption habits, expenditure, and how we spend time. Countries b..

Imagine ringing in the year 2030 and the world as we know it has not yet ended. How might we look back upon the role of UX design in the 2020s? Read the full story ⟶

As a designer, I have a preferential bias toward neutral colours and a dispositional bias toward organised and structured design systems. Read the full story ⟶

Alec Pollak was little more than a junior art director cranking out print ads when he got a call that would change the path of his career. Read the full story ⟶