Product managers as amplifiers

I often say that being a PM is like having superpowers. You are constantly learning new things given the problem space you are working in. You have privileged access to all areas of your company and the most relevant discussions about your product and company’s future. But this kind of superpower co..

Deploying a Serverless Jamstack Site with RedwoodJS, Fauna, and Vercel

This article is for anyone interested in the emerging ecosystem of tools and technologies related to Jamstack and serverless. We’re going to use Fauna’s GraphQL API as a serverless back-end for a Jamstack front-end built with the Redwood framework and deployed with a one-click deploy on Vercel. In ..

Designing a healthy society

As researchers and designers of emerging technologies, we need to reflect and ask ourselves, what’s within our power to help realize a future that invites participation from the full spectrum of human diversity.Credit: Fortune Magazine/Ultimate Software — 100 Best Places Workplaces for DiversityTher..

How digital machines can learn analogical thinking

The human cognitive power that AI lacks Continue reading on UX Collective »

What should we do about public touch screens in the Covid era?

They need a rethink.Photo by Gabby K from PexelsYuck!Though they were probably always a bit unsanitary, during the Covid-19 crisis (I like to call it the Covidian) using any interface that was inherently communal became a not-so-great idea. While research seems to show that the virus doesn’t live lo..

Design like Elon Musk using 6 fundamental principles

How Musk’s companies are able to beat existing industry giants using 6 fundamental design principles. Continue reading on UX Collective »

The needs of the many

It is time for the law to protect its digital citizens Continue reading on UX Collective »

3 principles of inclusive design and why it matters

Designing for all.Source: Billy Clark on DribbbleInclusive Design is a design practice where products and services are designed in a way that they are accessible and can serve as many people as possible, regardless of their age, gender, or ability. Inclusive Design puts people at the centre stage of..

Designing business transformation through customer experience

Building experience design into the organisation from organisational design through to mature design thinking within product teams. Continue reading on UX Collective »

Pantone Color of the Year 2021

It’s that time again: the self-fulfilling prophecy that is the Pantone Color of the Year has been announced for 2021. For 2021, we’re getting two colors of the year. The colors selected to grace museum gift shops, and end-of-year blog posts are Ultimate Gray (a mid-range gray somewhere around #9395..