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...
In this video, I’ll share 10 challenges for UX/product designers with basic and advanced difficulty levels. Why challenges? It’s a new year and a new block of time full of opportunities. I’d go as far as labelling it full 365 days of opportunities. Because typical new year resolutions tend...
In this video, I’ll discuss the biggest issue that designers and engineers alike face when trying to introduce the very first atomic design system — getting the buy-in from the business. Some designers don’t even know where to start, others continuously struggle to convey design system value. There is...
In this video, I’ll talk about processes and methods when it comes to product and service delivery. The book I feature is by Jeff Gothelf (the author behind one of the best books for new UX designers – Lean UX) and is called Lean vs Agile vs Design Thinking....
Something new to share with all of you: UX resources, a brand new section in this blog where you can find downloadable material (for example, UX & design thinking workshop templates), free courses (for example, Axure RP: Noob to master series) among many others. As noted before I’m using...
This week’s pick: Sitemap and User Flow Design System for Sketch. This is a super flexible and minimalist framework for any UX designer, architect and user researcher who needs to quickly put together user flows and sitemaps. Because of a variety of components (decision-making gates, labels, action points etc.),...
This week’s pick: Laws of UX. This web space features 20 of the most prominent and notable UX rules, maxims and principles any UX or product designer should memorise, keep in mind and use daily. Think Fitt’s, Hick’s, Gestalt psychology etc. The best bit about Laws of UX is...
A design system is a collection of reusable product design components, that are guided by clear standards. Atomic Design System patterns are usually tested with users, the commercial side of things and have been proven to be successful to assemble new features. Needless to say, design systems are UX...