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.
Time for another Livestream – In this eighth UX project challenge instalment, I’ll review 4! strong case study submissions from the viewers. It’s time for another UX design, user research, UI and prototyping challenge. The key aim in this challenge is for every designer who is currently struggling to...
The other day I was backing up my design files and by complete accident discovered an old academic report on one of the first UX case studies I’ve ever worked on. Not surprisingly and even if the actual product went live and was published on Apple AppStore it’s far...
It’s time for another UX design, user research, UI, and prototyping challenge. The key aim in this challenge is for every designer who is currently struggling to come up with a good UX project challenge and produce a case study for their portfolios. This brief should spark some great...
In this video, I’ll cover one of the key personal, professional, and experience design as craft pet peeves today: UX and product designers focusing on app design like it’s the only way to deliver good user experiences. Chances are your UX portfolio is also filled with apps as an...
This short will be relevant to absolutely any UX designer or user researcher. I’ll cover the super simple approach to onboarding yourself into a new UX design project space that will allow you to set yourself up for success. As with everything the answer to assure that you perform...
Wait, there’s more to UX research than Interviews and A/B testing? One of the recent questions reminded me that UX fundamentals are something that is still worth covering. The user research parts are some of the most complex parts of the UX design and that’s why the majority of...
In this short snippet, I’ll share a few points on empathy and its place in product and UX design. Because of evolution and devolution in UX processes over the years, there has been a lot of flavours of empathy in UX. You might have noticed people use empathy to...
In this recent highlight taken from the Get More Done in UX Design Livestream, I’ll walk through one of the most important process frameworks for any UX designer. Too many, especially growing designers, focus on the outputs and production on the deliverables instead of focusing on much more important...
In this recent highlight taken from the Get More Done for UX designers Livestream (part 2), I’ll walk through some of the easiest and most straightforward ways to become confident in UX. While presence, influence, and confidence in the way you interact with other people can be honed over...
Time for another Livestream – In this seventh challenge video, I’ll review 7 strong UX project case study submissions from the viewers. It’s time for another UX design, user research, UI and prototyping challenge. The key aim in this challenge for every designer who is currently struggling to come...
In this short video highlight from the Get More Done as a UX designer Live stream, I’ll cover why UX is one of the hardest fields to break into, but also the field that will require you to work smart, but more importantly hard. And very consistently at that...
In this short video highlight from the Get More Done as a UX designer Live stream, I’ll cover the foolproof framework and tool to help prioritise UX tasks and to-dos. Every UX designer and user researcher will face a choice paradox because of the sheer immensity of choices and...
In this short video highlight from the Get More Done as a UX designer Live stream, I’ll cover some of the key leadership principles for the current and future design leaders. While this advice is timeless, too many juniors and more experienced designers tend to overtly focus on their...
In this short video highlight from the Get More Done as a UX designer Live stream, I’ll cover the DiSSS (Deconstruct, Select, Sequence and add Stakes) framework that helps learn UX skills and prioritise work items fast and effectively. It doesn’t really matter if you’re just trying to get...
In this short video highlight from the Get More Done as a UX designer Lives stream, I’ll cover the Business – Users – Team – Self framework (B.U.T.S. in short). This is a simple sequence that should inform any UX designer’s or researcher’s decision-making process, focus areas, and generally...
In this short video highlight from the Get More Done as a UX designer Lives stream, I’ll cover the concept of one of the best productivity frameworks – Getting Things Done (GTD). In particular, it’s less than 2 minutes rule that provides a simple prioritisation and decision support when...