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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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....