Episode 42: App for Interactive User Flows and UX Journeys This week’s pick: Overflow app. A UX and product design tool that allows to quickly import Sketch, Figma, Adobe XD mockups and stitch them together into interactive touchpoints. If you are after an intuitive tool that helps to convey...
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...
This week’s pick: Ditto plugin for Figma. It’s a UX copywriting plugin that integrates with free to use Ditto app where UX writers can easily manage and maintain copy across different UI artboards. The best bit about this plugin is that working within bigger teams you can track the...
This time I decided to stream the UX prototyping challenge LIVE! Let’s see if this works out. The topic for the challenge was Data visualization prototyping and I received superb entries from UX and interaction designers across the globe. The rules were simple – you get a high-level product...
This week’s pick: Attention Insights Sketch plugin for design analytics. It’s a recent discovery that I plan to adapt to my Sketch product and UI design workflow. It allows to quickly produce interesting and actionable attention heatmaps for each of your design artboards. In this video, I’ll test the...
In this video, I’ll go through some of the key points on why experience designers need to focus on offboarding experience more. Fact is, most products and services simply ignore the offboarding as product and tech leads are chasing conversion and onboarding rates as a primary metric. It’s reasonable...
This week’s pick: Details design system. A kit that I’ve used to start scalable and powerful UI and product design systems in an Atomic Design framework for quite some time. Details kit provides a simple yet structured starter for any designer to customise. Better yet, you can download Sketch...
Episode 36: Data Visualization Library for UX/UI Designers A library of the best in practice data visualizations and charts for meaningful data representation. If you’re working with big data, AI, machine learning decision supports, data visualization or simple dashboard projects this is a must-bookmark tool. You’ll find hundreds of...
Goodbye Adobe CC – Why I Stopped Using Adobe Products as a UX Designer is a quick take highlighting the reasons that made me stop using Adobe CC products as a UX designer. Note, that I’ve been using Adobe since the early days of Macromedia (way before it was...
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...
This week’s pick: Billboard Design Thinking Workshop Templates. As mentioned in the interview/UX Chat with Microsoft UX architect, fellow design thinker and Billboard design thinking evangelist Sean McGuire, the method is super effective as is open to use by anyone. In this video, I will walk you through the...
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: AMCharts – a live editor for building, testing and exporting real charts online. This is one of the oldest web-based tools I’ve got in my toolkit I use regularly for wireframes, low-to-high fidelity mockups and any other scenario where quick data visualisation is a must. The...
5k subscriber special? It has been just over the year since I started publishing some of the material I initially made to upskill my design team. I’m super grateful to all the viewers out there who have opted in for the UX tools, such as Axure and Sketch tutorials,...
In this episode for creating fully functional atomic design systems from scratch, I’ll talk about 2 vital parts making this effort a success. Too often efforts that are done in isolation and that lack necessary buy-ins tend to end up collecting dust. What was meant to be transformative new...
This week’s pick: Hypothesis prioritisation canvas by Lean UX author Jeff Gothelf. If you know about the Lean UX canvas and how impactful it has been for tech and UX design community you might benefit from an additional template/design tool they released most recently – the way to prioritise...