In this episode for creating fully functional atomic design systems from scratch, I’ll talk about 2 vital parts making this effort a success. Too often efforts that are done in isolation and that lack necessary buy-ins tend to end up collecting dust. What was meant to be transformative new...
This week’s pick: Hypothesis prioritisation canvas by Lean UX author Jeff Gothelf. If you know about the Lean UX canvas and how impactful it has been for tech and UX design community you might benefit from an additional template/design tool they released most recently – the way to prioritise...
In this session, I’ll walk you through 10 big tips (actually tips that have smaller tips within in) that will be useful for beginner and more advanced UX, product designers, UX researchers alike. I’ll talk about process bits, research goals, essential preparation and items to keep in mind when...
This week’s pick: AI photo generator experiment from NVIDIA.Not the most user-friendly, but surely powerful and impressive machine learning piece. By selecting a sample bitmap and drawing a rough sketch you’ll get a quickly generated output. Most of it looks a bit watercoloured or washed out, however some landscapes...
Session #81. Conditional Logic and Condition Builder In this session, bit by bit I’ll walk you through the conditional logic in Axure. I’ll also showcase each option in Axure’s Condition Builder feature. While mentioned and showcased before around the use cases, this UX prototyping feature (set) is a must....
In this video, I’ll share 10 challenges for UX/product designers with basic and advanced difficulty levels. Why challenges? It’s a new year and a new block of time full of opportunities. I’d go as far as labelling it full 365 days of opportunities. Because typical new year resolutions tend...
This week’s pick: UX Design Book Reading List by yours truly. Yet again I’ll share another resource from my personal arsenal. Over the past few years, I’ve been logging this reading list with over 40 titles (as of late 2019) to share with my junior and peer designers when...
Product design folk who work with data visualisation, fin-tech, trading, big data and analytics UI – this tool is for you. It’s my recent addition to Sketch plugin family – Sketch plugin to generate custom decimal number entries and append specific characters en masse. I’ve been banging my head...
In this session, we’ll use one of the recent tutorials from Axure team – animated background particles. Specifically, because of the festive season, I’ll show you how to generate multiple snowflake objects in Axure. We will achieve this by using repeaters and underlying code features. Using these methods you...
This week’s pick: startup UX timeline. A super simple and thus great directory that lists some of the most prominent tech startups and unicorns that have been evolving their customer experience and web presence over the years. I’ll walk you through a handful of them: starting at MVP and...
In this video, I’ll discuss the biggest issue that designers and engineers alike face when trying to introduce the very first atomic design system — getting the buy-in from the business. Some designers don’t even know where to start, others continuously struggle to convey design system value. There is...
This week’s pick: Drawkit.io. A superb resource to find your next set of illustrations for brand new startup website or product. This resource contains masterfully crafted illustration sets, illustration design systems as well as animated kits. Best of all you can try it out by downloading a vast amount...
In this video, I’ll talk about processes and methods when it comes to product and service delivery. The book I feature is by Jeff Gothelf (the author behind one of the best books for new UX designers – Lean UX) and is called Lean vs Agile vs Design Thinking....
Something new to share with all of you: UX resources, a brand new section in this blog where you can find downloadable material (for example, UX & design thinking workshop templates), free courses (for example, Axure RP: Noob to master series) among many others. As noted before I’m using...
If you’re a Sketch user and have been following along this design system tutorial series you probably have already noticed the gradual transition from the smallest atoms to pages that need to be somehow implemented. Too often expectations and design details get lost in the weeds because of the...
This week’s pick: Sitemap and User Flow Design System for Sketch. This is a super flexible and minimalist framework for any UX designer, architect and user researcher who needs to quickly put together user flows and sitemaps. Because of a variety of components (decision-making gates, labels, action points etc.),...