Making a UX Portfolio is one of the biggest challenges user researchers, product design, and user experience professionals face. While most material you find online covers how to structure the UX case studies and make your portfolio stand out, rarely do senior designers mention one critical bit – the...
The following 7 design, inspiration and other bits of interest bullets that kept me pondering during last month: Before covering what’s next, let’s first look into the past year or so to better understand the underlying themes then it comes to design, tech and customer experience. The real MVP...
I keep receiving the question of choosing the right UX portfolio platform way to often to ignore. Whilst I believe that a simple PDF or a WordPress blog turned UX portfolio is enough to get a job within the field, having a public site with living content can help...
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...
Coming up with great first UX case studies for your UX portfolio (junior or senior) is a daunting task. Having reviewed hundreds of portfolios over the years, I can see the same mistakes across a variety of UX specialities and seniority levels. In this video, I’ll give you a...
The following 7 design, inspiration and other bits of interest bullets that kept me pondering during last month: I’m not going to tell you again how important it is to get a perspective and routine to maintain the positive mental outlook on things, as that was last month’s topic....
You’ve asked for it: UI gamification is this Axure UX prototyping challenge theme. The rules are simple – you get a high-level product design brief and simple scenario. The rest is up to you: UX research, UX exploration and UI fidelity, visual expressions, interaction design methods and prototype depth…...
If the title of this video has caught your attention it’s probably because you have been delaying on working on your UX design, product design or any other creative portfolio. This video is not just another call to action to get you motivated to get started, but rather a...
In this video, I’ll go through some of the key points on why experience designers need to focus on offboarding experience more. Fact is, most products and services simply ignore the offboarding as product and tech leads are chasing conversion and onboarding rates as a primary metric. It’s reasonable...
An insightful evening UX chat with a fellow design thinker, Microsoft UX architect Sean McGuire. We cover his unique approach to design thinking with Billboard Design Thinking method, best practices, his top tips to handle difficult stakeholders and answer some of your questions. This is a must-watch for new...
5k subscriber special? It has been just over the year since I started publishing some of the material I initially made to upskill my design team. I’m super grateful to all the viewers out there who have opted in for the UX tools, such as Axure and Sketch tutorials,...
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...
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....
This week’s pick: Laws of UX. This web space features 20 of the most prominent and notable UX rules, maxims and principles any UX or product designer should memorise, keep in mind and use daily. Think Fitt’s, Hick’s, Gestalt psychology etc. The best bit about Laws of UX is...
In this video, I’ll answer a viewer question about UX double diamond. What it is, how and why to use it in your designs process. The best bit about this framework is its versatility. Firstly, it will teach you how to approach big problems using divergent and convergent thinking...
1k Subscriber Special? It has been a few weeks since we’ve got there! At this point the subscriber count has doubled and I’m super grateful to all the viewers out there who have opted in for the UX tools, such as Axure and Sketch tutorials, UX career and process...