Product design and UX without content is just a set of templates that will never answer the user needs. That’s why content design that is built on top of underlying user research is so important. In this section, you’ll find a collection of articles on UX copy, content strategy and techniques to make your products and services better.
In this video, I’ll cover one of the key personal, professional, and experience design as craft pet peeves today: UX and product designers focusing on app design like it’s the only way to deliver good user experiences. Chances are your UX portfolio is also filled with apps as an...
If you’ve been following the UX review series, you probably already noted down several fundamental go-to’s that I tend to highlight in each video. These are based on the underlying principles that I as a hiring manager look out for in my UX job openings and the applicant UX...
In this recent highlight taken from the Get More Done in UX Design Livestream, I’ll walk through one of the most important process frameworks for any UX designer. Too many, especially growing designers, focus on the outputs and production on the deliverables instead of focusing on much more important...
Let’s try to answer this question first: Does your portfolio have to be perfect? With all the UX portfolio and UX Case study reviews, and given the amount of feedback I give, I also get a lot of questions if I’d consider any of them for the interview process....
How can designers expect businesses to care about “dark patterns” when the terminology is so vague? I California’s regulation for dark patterns is not the solution Finally, some great recent news for the UX community: California to pass a regulation to control the so-called dark patterns. Yet, the more...
In this video, I’ll answer a couple of very specific UX portfolio questions from one of the viewers. In particular, how deep should you go with your UX case studies? Often designers get stuck on how much detail they need to add to make their work look cohesive and...
You’ve read it right: the best UX portfolio platform for UX designers and user researchers is not what you think. In the past, I already covered several easy to start with portfolio platforms that anyone can use to build public sites and grow their personal design brand. However, when...
In this latest installment of UX portfolio reviews, I’ll walk through the latest viewer submission which covers the very first UX case study that the junior UX designer has done. While it’s an impressive first stab at documenting and presenting the design work as usual there are a lot...
This time I’ll show you how you can make Generative Art with just a click of a button. While the majority of generative processing is commonly done by developers using code and scripts, there’s also some purpose build small apps that can help designers like you to quickly come...
What is genuinely universal, and what is not? In this Experience Designed newsletter, I’ll share some recent fascinating finds that capture scientific, human-centred, past and future thinking views regarding conceptual and real universality. I What happens when a neurosurgeon and an astrophysicist compare notes? A mind-blowing comparison between our...
I just reviewed a Bulgarian experience designer Petar’s UX portfolio. What’s different about this one is that he focuses on Enterprise level SaaS solutions. This video is a deep dive into one of his recent cases – a developer platform to boost user engagement and sentiment. Petar covers some of the...
That’s right all of the visual deliverables were designed by AI. And your new design colleague might not be named Sarah and be a human as you know it. In the near future, it will practically unavoidable to avoid (menial and much more creative) task automation. Today I’ll share...
This past year has been a challenging and turbulent year for everyone; One positive outcome of so many people facing the lockdowns and isolation is the drive to get into UX design and UX research. The reach for the experience design content has grown exponentially resulting in over 1million...
While the design field is abundant with tools that address the majority of UX, UI, and product designer needs, the 3D space has been left aside for quite some time. A lot of designers have been thinking to learn 3D fundamentals and crafting simple yet presentable solutions, but have...
Continuing from the recent Apple developments in the silicon space (M1 chip release) as well as the accompanying release of the new macOS Big Sur, this video will cover the latter. I’ll walk you through some of the key areas in the new operating system that all user researchers,...
Have you ever struggled to find the right free stock photo and had to spend browsing several quality stock photo sites? I’m talking about all the typical choices product and content designers visit Unsplash, Splitshire, Startup Stock Photos, Magdeleine, Free Nature Stock, New Old Stock, Pexels, Pixabay, and many...