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Content design

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.

  • UX Prototyping: Low Fidelity, Mid or High Fidelity Prototype?

    UX Prototyping: Low Fidelity, Mid or High Fidelity Prototype? (Livestream Highlight)

    In this short highlight video from the recent UX live stream, I’ll answer one of the chat questions on UX prototyping and how to pick the right fidelity. Specifically, which fidelity (high or low) you should go for when prototyping interactive flows? Check the full live stream where this...

  • All Your UX Work is Under NDA, Now What?

    All Your UX Work is Under NDA, Now What?

    What should you do if all your UX work is under a non-disclosure agreement that prevents sharing it with the outside world? A very common question and something every single product design, UX researcher and any other UXer will face at some point in their lives. In fact, if...

  • Reviewing My First UX Case Study from Over 10 Years Ago

    Reviewing My First UX Case Study from Over 10 Years Ago

    The other day I was backing up my design files and by complete accident discovered an old academic report on one of the first UX case studies I’ve ever worked on. Not surprisingly and even if the actual product went live and was published on Apple AppStore it’s far...

  • The Perfect UX Portfolio... Finally!

    The Perfect UX Portfolio… Finally!

    I’ve received so many requests to show what a good UX portfolio looks like instead of reviewing a portfolio that could benefit from improving. I heard you and in this video, I’ll share what a perfect UX portfolio looks like. More importantly, I’ll also share the key decision-making factors...

  • UX Designers, STOP Designing Apps

    UX Designers, STOP Designing Apps

    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...

  • UX Portfolio Design Checklist - Design Tool Tuesday

    UX Portfolio Design Checklist

    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...

  • Outcomes Over Output in UX Design

    Outcomes Over Output in UX Design

    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...

  • UX Portfolio: Does it Have to Be Perfect? (As a UX Hiring Manager)

    UX Portfolio: Does it Have to Be Perfect? (As a UX Hiring Manager)

    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....

  • Dark patterns terminology in the UX and UI design

    How “Dark” are Your Patterns? – Experience Designed – ’21 issue 3

    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...

  • vy alechnavicius (vaexperience) explaining how detailed UX portfolio case studies should be

    Create a UX Portfolio: How Detailed Should Your UX Case Study Be?

    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...

  • The Best UX Portfolio Platform for UX Designers is Not What You Think

    The Best UX Portfolio Platform for UX Designers is Not What You Think

    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...

  • junior ux designer portfolio case study

    UX Portfolio Review: First Case Study (Junior UX Designer)

    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...

  • generative art app for designers

    How to Make Generative Art for Designers

    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...

  • Experience design newsletter cover art

    Universal by Design – Experience Designed – ’21 issue 1

    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...

  • Ux portfolio case study for enterprise tools

    UX Portfolio Review 9: Enterprise UX Case Study

    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...

  • Designed by AI Nikolay Ironov from studio lebedev

    Designed by AI

    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...


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