Self-learning, especially at emerging and ever-evolving subjects like UX, product design and tech is one of the ways to make sure your skillset remains relevant. As an avid reader, I find myself recommending books on design way too often. In this article category, you’ll find my takes on best recent user experience, design, tech and business books.
“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 video, I’ll share #1 tip to any UX designer’s career progression: Showing your work, sharing of the raw process, showcasing how the sausage is made rather than focusing on the packaged up deliverables. Depending on your seniority showing your work could mean adding more contextual design information...
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...
In this video, I’ll review one of the best books that I keep re-reading — Steal Like an Artist book from Austin Kleon. I’ll bring out and share a few key takeaways on how to stay creative in anything to do with UX and product design. As always...
The other day I answered a question on Quora: What UI/UX books should every software developer read? As an avid reader, there are a few strong design books I’d recommend other specialists (devs, data scientists, product managers, marketers, etc.) to read. But firstly, why should you? Benefit #1 –...
I rarely pick up a book that would related to my craft. It’s maybe that every 4th or 5th book ends up being design or UX related, if that. Yet looking back, over the years I’ve gone and read a handful of them. Most of these are great (if...
In this video I’ll take one key takeaway from Articulating design decisions (in user experience, lean and product design-development context), which I wish I could have gotten back in the day. During my career development as UI, Product designer and then UX designer and design leader I learned through...
In this video I’ll walk you through key takeaways from one of the best books for UX, product and innovation ideations — A technique for producing ideas by James Webb Young. This simple book highlights 3 core principles when it comes to idea generation as well as 5 steps...
How can you use quantitative user research and data to make better UX decisions? In this snappy 5 min video I’ll share 5 key takeaways from the Design with Data book. It will give you some ideas of how to get started fostering experimental culture, plan and perform A/B...
The other day one of my designer friends asked me if I have any good books to recommend. He’s a junior designer who just recently got into reading. Just like more experienced designers he realized that the timeless wisdom can be discovered within pages. Furthermore, like myself he wears many hats daily....