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Process

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.

  • Design tools, but most importantly if easy actions result in best outcomes

    Simple or Easy? – August 2020 Design Newsletter

    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....

  • Icon app for windows

    One Icon Management App for All Platforms – Design Tool Tuesday

    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...

  • Difficult Projects and Avoiding Burnout for UX Designers

    Difficult Projects and Avoiding Burnout for UX Designers

    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...

  • Getting Started with Human-Centered Design: IDEO HCD Kit - Design Tool Tuesday

    Getting Started with Human-Centered Design: IDEO HCD Kit – Design Tool Tuesday

    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...

  • Junior UX Portfolio: Top 3 Things You Must Get Right

    Junior UX Portfolio: Top 3 Things You Must Get Right

    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...

  • Font Pairing Library for Product Designers - Design Tool Tuesday

    Font Pairing Library for Product Designers – Design Tool Tuesday

    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...

  • Canva; A Tool to Make Anyone a Designer - Design Tool Tuesday

    A Tool to Make Anyone a Designer – Design Tool Tuesday

    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...

  • Manage All of Your Icons in One Central Place - Design Tool Tuesday

    Manage All of Your Icons in One Central Place – Design Tool Tuesday

    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...

  • 2 Apps to Make Your UI Mockups More Presentable - Design Tool Tuesday

    2 Apps to Make Your UI Mockups More Presentable – Design Tool Tuesday

    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...

  • UX Portfolio: How Design Hiring Managers Assess It

    UX Portfolio: How Design Hiring Managers Assess It

    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...

  • App to Test Your Menus and Sitemap IA - Design Tool Tuesday

    App to Test Your Menus and Sitemap IA – Design Tool Tuesday

    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...

  • Past, Present and the Future Thinking

    Past, Present and the Future Thinking – June 2020 Newsletter

    The following 7 design, inspiration and other bits of interest bullets that kept me pondering during last month: Before covering what’s next, let’s first look into the past year or so to better understand the underlying themes then it comes to design, tech and customer experience. The real MVP...

  • UX/UI Gamification Framework with Examples - Design Tool Tuesday

    UX/UI Gamification Framework with Examples – Design Tool Tuesday

    This week’s pick: previously featured Octalysis gamification framework. This has been my go-to resource for years to simply deconstruct and evaluate real-life service and digital user experiences. During experience design (UX research, ideation, and design) efforts you’ll definitely encounter user pain points around tasks that are painful to accomplish....

  • Progress Your UX Career: Show Your Work

    Progress Your UX Career: Show Your Work

    In this video, I’ll share #1 tip to any UX designer’s career progression: Showing your work, sharing of the raw process, showcasing how the sausage is made rather than focusing on the packaged up deliverables. Depending on your seniority showing your work could mean adding more contextual design information...

  • Figma to Axure Plugin for Highest Fidelity UX Prototyping

    Figma to Axure Plugin for Highest Fidelity UX Prototyping

    Oh boy, am I excited to share this new design tool, Axure UX prototyping plugin that finally allows to smoothly bridge gaps between Figma UI and product design efforts and Axure RP UX prototyping in highest of facilities. If you or your design team have been delaying the Figma...

  • Let's not burn out in May, OK? - A banner for design newsletter for UX designers

    Let’s not burn out in May, OK? – May 2020 Newsletter

    The following 7 design, inspiration and other bits of interest bullets that kept me pondering during last month: I’m not going to tell you again how important it is to get a perspective and routine to maintain the positive mental outlook on things, as that was last month’s topic....


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