Getting stuck and not being able to progress, climbing the proverbial ladder, and in other words not being able to get promoted is something which every one of developing designers will experience at some point in their journeys. This is the issue that goes beyond your typical design specialities...
This week’s pick: Blush. It’s a web app and a powerful plugin for Sketch and Figma product designers alike. It allows anyone to quickly pick, customize, and create custom illustrations. In this video, I’ll walk you through some of the key use cases and features using the Figma plugin....
Sometime back I asked my viewers if there’s anyone who would like to get their UX portfolios reviewed and shared with the broader audience. While it must be daunting to put it out there, constructive feedback and specific pointers can make all the difference. I’ve received a few asks...
Then working within cultures that don’t support human-centered and user-focused problem-solving, UX designers have really just a couple of options. One is the easy route which most tend to take when dealing with challenges, the other is less obvious but is something I always recommend to take the harder...
Sometime back I asked my viewers if there’s anyone who would like to get their UX portfolio reviewed and shared with the broader audience. While it must be daunting to put it out there, constructive feedback and specific pointers can make all the difference. I’ve received a few asks...
This week’s pick is the recent discovery called mymind. A browser extension to save all of the web things like articles, images, text and inspiration for later. While I know a lot of creatives and designers who use Pinterest and other public ecosystems to visually bookmark things online they...
In this session, I’ll show you how to create a simple data range picker for your calendar UI components. We’ll build on top of the previous tutorial case for making a calendar picker using Axure’s repeater widget functionality. Be sure to check the previous episode to understand the underlying...
In this fourth video, and as mentioned in the previous session I have a special guest who is a user for one of the most loved (and hated) products from Amazon family – Goodreads; As a reader and a user, our guest will help me map the key journey...
“Feeling another person’s emotions does not innately make you a good person.”– Devon Price …it also makes very little difference if taken at face value. Empathy + skin in the game + long term considerations (knock-on effect, dependencies) ⇒ Solution This might seem like a controversial topic, but at...
In this third video to experience and UX journey mapping for product, UX designers, and user researchers, I’ll walk you through 3 key principles that can make or break any workshop facilitation effort. I’ll quickly distill the lessons learned from running hundreds of UX mapping workshops over the years....
If you have been following this series or my channel you know how fascinated I’m with machine learning, automating menial (and sometimes challenging) design tasks, and meaningful decision support for human beings. This time it’s another interesting take on automation for the product, UX, and UI designers like you...
This time I’m streaming a different kind of tutorial – making of a platformer game UX/UI prototype using nothing but readily available game art assets and Axure RP as a logic builder app. End result will be a fully functional web app/game. Needless to say, game prototyping is a...
In this second video on how to run experience and UX journey mapping workshops effectively so that you gain enough insights to inform the next UX design steps, I’ll cover the preparation principles. In particular, I’ll share my 3 go-to areas when it comes to preparing for journey mapping...
This mini-series of videos on experience and UX journey mapping has been in the books for over the year! it’s time to bring it to live and quickly introduce and upskill those who have not to approach UX design with a discovery mindset (and methods). Journey mapping with adequate...
This week’s design tool pick is not really a product and UX design tool, but a method. I’ll showcase a powerful daily practice that will train your proverbial idea muscle. Like with any other skill ideation and coming up with the best new thing can be enhanced by repetition....
There are some questions that entry and junior level UX designers and researchers ask repetitively. One of these is definitely to do with the recent boom in product design and UX bootcamps. These intensive courses offer to teach UX as a craft in a matter of weeks. Some also...