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Process

Trust the process. You’ll find me sharing these 3 words over and over again. Be it for UX, design, user research, tech and product development or any other creative work – process never fails. Sometimes (and most of the time) all you need to do it follow it to make great things happen.

  • UX challenge to address: USA voting ballot UX and UI is shocking

    UX Design Challenge #6: Better Voting Experience

    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...

  • Blizzard diablo immortal product fail because of lack of UX research

    No UX Research = Failed Product: Blizzard’s Diablo Immortal Example

    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...

  • raised hand by a designer to make better questions

    Asking Better Questions – Design Newsletter

    In this newsletter, I want to share some bits that made me ponder, just like the better questions should. I’m a firm believer that the best user experience designers don’t ask a lot of questions. Instead, they ask well thought out succinct ones.  Often, the best designers ask stupid...

  • UX Case Study: Why Documenting Your UX Process is So Critical

    UX Case Study: Why Documenting Your UX Process is So Critical

    Sometime back I promised to cover how UX designers should document their progress along the way capturing information that would inform future efforts. Fact is, user researchers and designers need to work on their UX portfolios and UX case studies continuously and usually way earlier than needed. In this...

  • Fuzzy Cognitive Mapping for UX Design in Human-centred AI

    Fuzzy Cognitive Mapping for UX Design in Human-centered AI

    Human-centered AI, eh? Depending on your career projection in the experience, service, and product design, you might just be lucky enough to work on grand projects that build on top and support human decisions. It almost doesn’t matter how advanced the machine learning algorithms and AI are if it...

  • Simplest Way to Make Duotone Photo Effect

    Simplest Way to Make Duotone Photo Effect

    You’ve probably seen this duotone photo effect in a lot of product and UI design examples around the web. Today I’ll share and walk you through this small design app that allows you to quickly upload or use predefined Unsplash photos to apply and customize a duotone effect. All...

  • Awesome Illustrations Creator for Product Designers

    Awesome Illustrations Creator for Product Designers

    This week’s pick: Blush. It’s a web app and a powerful plugin for Sketch and Figma product designers alike. It allows anyone to quickly pick, customize, and create custom illustrations. In this video, I’ll walk you through some of the key use cases and features using the Figma plugin....

  • Experience and UX Journey Mapping, P4: Live Mapping Effort with a User

    Experience and UX Journey Mapping, P4: Live Mapping Effort with a User

    In this fourth video, and as mentioned in the previous session I have a special guest who is a user for one of the most loved (and hated) products from Amazon family – Goodreads; As a reader and a user, our guest will help me map the key journey...

  • Experience and UX Journey Mapping, P3: Workshop Facilitation

    Experience and UX Journey Mapping, P3: Workshop Facilitation

    In this third video to experience and UX journey mapping for product, UX designers, and user researchers, I’ll walk you through 3 key principles that can make or break any workshop facilitation effort. I’ll quickly distill the lessons learned from running hundreds of UX mapping workshops over the years....

  • machine learning and AI based ux design font pairing

    Pairing Fonts with Machine Learning for Product Designers

    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...

  • LIVE: UX Prototyping a Functional Game with Axure RP

    LIVE: UX Prototyping a Functional Game with Axure RP

    This time I’m streaming a different kind of tutorial – making of a platformer game UX/UI prototype using nothing but readily available game art assets and Axure RP as a logic builder app. End result will be a fully functional web app/game. Needless to say, game prototyping is a...

  • Experience and UX Journey Mapping, P2: Preparing for UX Workshops

    Experience and UX Journey Mapping, P2: Preparing for UX Workshops

    In this second video on how to run experience and UX journey mapping workshops effectively so that you gain enough insights to inform the next UX design steps, I’ll cover the preparation principles. In particular, I’ll share my 3 go-to areas when it comes to preparing for journey mapping...

  • How to get started with Experience and UX journey mapping tutorial

    Getting Started with Experience and UX Journey Mapping, P1

    This mini-series of videos on experience and UX journey mapping has been in the books for over the year! it’s time to bring it to live and quickly introduce and upskill those who have not to approach UX design with a discovery mindset (and methods). Journey mapping with adequate...

  • Coming up with better ideas in UX

    Training the Idea Muscle for Product and UX Designers

    This week’s design tool pick is not really a product and UX design tool, but a method. I’ll showcase a powerful daily practice that will train your proverbial idea muscle. Like with any other skill ideation and coming up with the best new thing can be enhanced by repetition....

  • UX portfolio ideas

    UX Portfolio: Ideas to Make Strong Case Studies – Design Tool Tuesday

    This week’s Design Tool Tuesday is atypical. Instead of covering a specific tool and its benefits, I’ll cover one of the burning challenges in the UX community: gathering enough strong material to make UX portfolio case studies shine. Using the product design challenge ideas I’ll share some tangible actions...

  • Design tools, but most importantly if easy actions result in best outcomes

    Simple or Easy? – August 2020 Design Newsletter

    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....


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