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...
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...
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....
The following 7 design, inspiration and other bits of interest bullets that kept me pondering during last month: With the C-19 forcing teams to choose a more distributed and nimble approach to work, you might find one of the designers wondering how to stay productive. I love this article...
The following 7 design, inspiration and other bits of interest bullets that kept me pondering during last month: While designers still struggle to understand the difference between trends and fads, I do like this new wave of style (which I would still consider a fad to pass within a...
This week’s pick: Uizard. A brand new tool to hit the market with powerful beta. The tool allows quickly upload hand-drawn sketches and convert them into digital designs + full-fledged front-end code. The best bit about all of it is integrated design systems, that allow fast brand and component...
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...
This week’s pick: Sketch2Code by Microsoft AI lab. In this video, I’ll test this promising tool that not only converts hand-drawn sketches and wireframes into functional clean HTML, but also provides with probability rate breakdown for each of the UI wireframe areas. Is it really accurate enough though? watch...
This week’s pick: AI photo generator experiment from NVIDIA.Not the most user-friendly, but surely powerful and impressive machine learning piece. By selecting a sample bitmap and drawing a rough sketch you’ll get a quickly generated output. Most of it looks a bit watercoloured or washed out, however some landscapes...
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...
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...
Traditionally, hackathons are labelled as engineering efforts to solve problems in lean teams within a fixed timeframe. Most recently, they have been bastardised by variety of other business streams and sectors. If you look for a hackathon, you will find listings for business rules driven hackathons. As well as...
Writing is one of those skills that is extremely hard to master. I’ve been doing quite a few courses over the years on business writing, effective copy in digital landscape, persuasive copy etc. all of which contributed in skill development immensely. Yet, one thing that made it even more...
Recently I was researching voice assistant and voice tech application for business. As I was browsing for interesting use cases I would only find the generic list of skills. All were filled with the basic office administration tasks. e.g ‘book the room’, ‘turn on the lights’ etc. You got to be kidding, I thought… It’s been years...
The other day I received a video question from a friend living in Spain. One pain point he experiences living in an apartment is having to deal with unintuitive light and doorbell switches. This is a real world problem that can be solved using experience design principles:
Giving a design vlog format a try with the first case: Enzo Ferrari’s legacy and the latest London’s Design Museum exhibit: “Ferrari: Under the Skin”. Enzo Ferrari was an entrepreneur best know for Ferrari sports and luxury cars. He started as a race driver himself in the early 20’s....