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...
Every decision you’ll make will land on a spectrum between 1) simple (effective) but hard to achieve, and 2) easy in the short term but awful in the long term. As humans, we naturally default to immediate remediation actions because they are easy, but they rarely result in decent outcomes....
This week’s pick: Fontpair. A library of examples of best free font pairings for UI, UX, and product designers. I’ve covered a handful of tools that allow to quickly get inspired and find your next pair of well-assembled fonts. This tool is a simple effective way to find it...
This week’s pick: Canva. A web digital design tool that has been adopted by the product, UX, graphic designers, and people who have almost nothing to do with more visual aspects of design. Think marketing teams, customer experience, and product people. This app is rich in ready to start...
Unquestionably design that divides the audience and receives both overtly positive and negative feedback tends to be a sign of great design. It indicates that the solution answers a specific user’s needs, goals and pain points, rather than catering to all. But is it that simple though? This month’s...
This week for the Design Tool Tuesday we have not one or two tools but a whole lot of free icon resources for product and UX designers. I’ll quickly explain the key features and why these are the icon sets and resources that every designer should bookmark. In no...
This week’s design tool pick: IconJar. A very simple yet handy app that allows product, UI and UX designers keep all their icons and sets well structured in one single place. In this video, I’ll show how I use this app and how it integrates into my design workflow...
This week’s pick is actually 2 apps that help you produce very similar outcomes: Screenly and Screenzy. Just like the overtly similar names suggest they are all about making your UI mockups, photos, screenshots, or any other digital material more presentable. These apps allow you to quickly upload the...
This week’s pick: Treejack by Optimal Workshop. Let’s face it, information architecture (IA) is paramount when it comes to designing cohesive user experiences. As designers, we tend to employ several methods that help us structure the data in a truly meaningful way, but what we usually lack is enough...
This week’s pick: Figma’s resources for easy to use Google web font pairing for product and UX designers. Sometime back I reviewed a pro tool called Typewolf that designers can use to get inspired to use their typefaces more effectively. This time it’s the opposite side of the learning...
This week’s pick: previously featured Octalysis gamification framework. This has been my go-to resource for years to simply deconstruct and evaluate real-life service and digital user experiences. During experience design (UX research, ideation, and design) efforts you’ll definitely encounter user pain points around tasks that are painful to accomplish....
Episode 48: Really Good Customer Email Examples for Content Designers This week’s pick: Really Good Emails. This one’s for the experience designers, marketing enthusiasts, content designers and anyone who is passionate about optimal customer experience among us. If you have ever worked on email conversions, updates and other inbox-communication...
Episode 46: Great UX Microcopy & Content Design Examples This week’s pick: Microcopy Inspirations – a collection of good to great UX microcopy, copy and general content design examples. I like this collection to get inspired for a specific category of copy use cases. For example, 404 pages, error...
Episode 45: Best Font Pairing Examples for Product Designers This week’s pick: Typewolf. This comprehensive collection of best examples of typography pairings is super useful when working with existing or new fonts. While this online resource is useful for any creative designer, product and UI designers will especially benefit...
Episode 44: Ultimate UI Animations for Product Designers This week’s pick: Lottie Files. A community for resources for Airbnb’s Lottie animations for product design (UX/UI). In this video, I’ll share some of the key features that make this online resource a great addition to your toolkit: the ability to...
This week’s pick: Ditto plugin for Figma. It’s a UX copywriting plugin that integrates with free to use Ditto app where UX writers can easily manage and maintain copy across different UI artboards. The best bit about this plugin is that working within bigger teams you can track the...