Stories is a collection of articles, videos, reading material, etc. on experience design, tech, business, leadership and more.
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...
Going live with your UX challenge submissions and a Q&A follow-up. This time you were asked to design a better voting experience for US citizens. The scope of the challenge is super open and besides the starter material shared before, people did UX research, design and prototyping. Can’t wait...
UX vs UI Design is something every designer needs to know. Typically this is explained with overtly simplistic or complicated bad design memes. You have probably seen a few of those floating around. They are also a dangerous metaphor as most are produced by people who collate user interface...
In this session, I’ll show you how to quickly come up with two things: 1) incremental counter using the Axure’s global variables, and 2) a minute and second based smart clock timer, that will count the seconds and then minutes up. If you need to ever prototype time-based interactions,...
Can you describe what is the difference between product designer and UX designer? What about product designer and interaction designer? Confusion is shared among the junior and experienced designers, recruiters and the hiring managers. And this is reflected in every UX/UI, Product designer and UX designer job ads – they all...
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...
In this UX prototyping with Axure session, I’ll show you how to quickly make a simple photo background header that adapts to your browser size and adjust the image to make a full-sized cover. Welcome to the new series on Axure RP 9 prototyping: Axure RP – Noob to...
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...
Time for another UX portfolio review. This time I’ll break down and give pointers to product designer Nadav. I’ll cover a few of his cases and highlight some areas that might make it much more effective: UX case study and how to make it flow, showing more than telling,...
As a UX designer and user researcher, you don’t have to have a Ph.D. in psychology to benefit from the underlying human factors. While deep-rooted psychology is probably the best starting knowledge base for a true user experience career, having access to quality research studies and data can make...
It’s time for another UX challenge. This time I’m lifting a limit of just coming up with Axure prototypes – use any tools you feel most comfortable with. The key aim in this challenge for every designer who is currently struggling to come up with a good challenge and...
It’s not a secret that quantifying the ROI of UX research is a very hard thing to do. Especially for the new and risky ventures. That’s why the majority of organizations default to overtly lean research and design methods. In this video, I’ll share one of the recent business...
It’s not a secret that communicating findings clearly is the most critical part of the research. Case in point recent developments in the Covid19 vaccine safety trials. And poor communication to follow, which succeeded to divide the intended public into a couple of big groups: the true believers and...
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...
It’s been almost half a decade and there have been very few improvements in terms of Apple’s Macbook Touch Bar UX. With the recent Big Sur release Apple has made some tweaks with repositioning buttons here and there making users relearn to use this input method yet again. In...