Individual contributor designers are cross-functional leaders

Interview with Madhavi Jagdish about her career path from leading a team to leading with craftLeading with Craftis a limited series of articles where we shed a light on stories of designers with successful careers as individual contributors. Curating and publishing hundreds of articles every month a..

The future of (online) shopping

Getty ImagesYou and I have shopped online a ton during the coronavirus pandemic, and some of those habits will stick. At the same time, new technologies are continuously being developed to give us, consumers, a better online shopping experience (and us, designers, more tools to explore), and it is t..

What no one explains about the design process

The UX industry puts a lot of emphasis on processes. But is that the best way to think fundamentally about design? Continue reading on UX Collective »

Illustration Teardowns: Refactoring Old Work

We all hate to look at our old work. Yuk! Blech! But as songwriters say “it’s all in the rewrite”!Girl sketching on iPad (refactored from several years ago 🙌🏽)As I come up close to the end of my current contract I find myself in that “what’s next” place where I need to get out and promote myself som..

A practical guide on how to choose and tweak typefaces for your design project

Using Google Fonts, Figma and your eyes Continue reading on UX Collective »

How do I scale a UX team?

Building blocks for a solid foundation to grow a successful UX research team Continue reading on UX Collective »

How to make complex interactive buttons in Figma in 3 steps

Uncovering some “Hacks” to take your Figma prototyping to the next level. Continue reading on UX Collective »

When are we going to start designing AI with purpose?

For an industry that prides itself on moving fast, the tech community has been remarkably slow to adapt to the differences of designing with AI. Machine learning is an intrinsically fuzzy science, yet when it inevitably returns unpredictable results, we tend to react like it’s a puzzle to be solved;..

Portugal by Sebastião Rodrigues’ pencil

A journey that merges with the country’s history© Tamanna RumeeThe recent history of design in Portugal in general and graphic design, in particular, is certainly still to be written. In other words, it is a story that is written every day, thanks to the work, often in difficult contexts, of thousan..

Understand why they’re doing it, not just what they do

Take control of your interviews — focus on three facets of interaction to understand motivations and behavior. Continue reading on UX Collective »