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.
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....
This week’s pick: Nucleo app for Windows and Mac ecosystems. This icon management app is previously mentioned Iconjar equivalent for Windows product and UI designers. Just like the alternative, Nucleo packs the custom icon pack management, ability to quickly get started with existing predefined icons and a few bits...
It might be tad ballsy to say that every one of UX designers (let’s bunch all designer types in this one) will experience difficulties in their projects and potential burnout. I’ve been there several times myself. What helped me is understanding why we tend to experience this and what...
This week’s pick: An Human-Centered Design kit from Ideo. This is a set of methods, thinking principles and case studies that been transformative in my own experience design and UX development. It’s also a set of tools I recommend every designer to refer to regularly, especially when it comes...
I don’t need you to tell how hard it really is to come up with a strong junior UX portfolio, especially if you only got a UX Bootcamp or a few months (even years, really!) of commercial experience under your belt. Recently one of the viewers reached out asking...
This week’s pick: Fontpair. A library of examples of best free font pairings for UI, UX, and product designers. I’ve covered a handful of tools that allow to quickly get inspired and find your next pair of well-assembled fonts. This tool is a simple effective way to find it...
This week’s pick: Canva. A web digital design tool that has been adopted by the product, UX, graphic designers, and people who have almost nothing to do with more visual aspects of design. Think marketing teams, customer experience, and product people. This app is rich in ready to start...
This week’s design tool pick: IconJar. A very simple yet handy app that allows product, UI and UX designers keep all their icons and sets well structured in one single place. In this video, I’ll show how I use this app and how it integrates into my design workflow...
This week’s pick is actually 2 apps that help you produce very similar outcomes: Screenly and Screenzy. Just like the overtly similar names suggest they are all about making your UI mockups, photos, screenshots, or any other digital material more presentable. These apps allow you to quickly upload the...
Making a UX Portfolio is one of the biggest challenges user researchers, product design, and user experience professionals face. While most material you find online covers how to structure the UX case studies and make your portfolio stand out, rarely do senior designers mention one critical bit – the...
This week’s pick: Treejack by Optimal Workshop. Let’s face it, information architecture (IA) is paramount when it comes to designing cohesive user experiences. As designers, we tend to employ several methods that help us structure the data in a truly meaningful way, but what we usually lack is enough...