Have you considered to switch to iPad Pro for UX and Product Design work? Maybe user research? In this video, I’ll give you my first-hand experience by trying out UX work only using iPad for a few days. As a Mac and iPad user I’ll share the unbiased take...
In this video, I’ll share one of the best tips and methods when it comes to better UX design leadership or any team leadership & management for that matter. Condor Moment is a technique that has been added to British Army’s leadership handbook as a method to make better...
In this video, I’ll review one of the best books that I keep re-reading — Steal Like an Artist book from Austin Kleon. I’ll bring out and share a few key takeaways on how to stay creative in anything to do with UX and product design. As always...
At least once a week on Quora or by email, UX designers (usually product designers) ask me about user research. In particular, they always want to know one thing: how to perform “good enough” user research with no access to the end-users. It’s crazy how prevalent this issue is....
This weeks pick: TimeTimer. A funky clock that allows UXers, design sprints, ideation workshop facilitators to easily communicate and track time with the participants. This is an absolute must for any facilitator who needs to keep workshops smooth and productive. I personally like to use it for any design...
Have you ever felt stuck or a need for a different UX design or user research tool? I have a handful of great (but uncommon) tools that I tend to apply whenever there’s a need for a specific project. More often than not these tools become part of a...
In this video I’ll take one key takeaway from Articulating design decisions (in user experience, lean and product design-development context), which I wish I could have gotten back in the day. During my career development as UI, Product designer and then UX designer and design leader I learned through...
Non-disclosure agreements and UX portfolios is one of the trickiest parts of any UX and product designer work. If you work on sensitive intellectual property work you almost never allowed to showcase it. This is one of those things that designers tend to either cover up with private portfolios...
In this video I’ll walk you through key takeaways from one of the best books for UX, product and innovation ideations — A technique for producing ideas by James Webb Young. This simple book highlights 3 core principles when it comes to idea generation as well as 5 steps...
Traditionally, hackathons are labelled as engineering efforts to solve problems in lean teams within a fixed timeframe. Most recently, they have been bastardised by variety of other business streams and sectors. If you look for a hackathon, you will find listings for business rules driven hackathons. As well as...
As a designer (product, experience etc.) you probably found it hard to keep up with every single tool in the market. Every year there is a brand new tool that allows designers to craft their prototypes in a different way. And so, I decided to pull a list of...
In this session I’ll walk you through the key steps on how I use Axure as a tool to prototype, moodboard ideas, design the UI and more. I’ll use design thinking/typical UX process double diamond as a framework to ‘stick’ specific Axure tool application points. This video will benefit...
Here’s how to design an app in under 20minutes (strictly timed and limited). I’m going to take a simple UX user scenario/journey that would be created based on user research, identify key touch points that need to be represented, and then apply simple product design techniques to bring these...
UX tools review time… This time I’ll walk you through Silverback 3 – a Guerrilla User Testing App you can start using immediately. My team adopted this tool recently to capture qualitative user feedback via real-time audio, video and interaction recordings. Using hi-fi prototypes (e.g. Axure) that don’t have...
If you’re thinking to scale a UX team, or assure consistency across the range of products, or even need a better all-round collaboration enhancement — design systems are an invaluable asset. If done right they can save tremendous amounts of time: allowing for an easy design handover to development,...
I’m a terrible writer. Per my past editors, I assemble my sentences like a robot. The mild dyslexia doesn’t help either. But here’s the thing. There is a bigger copy sin than one’s inability to make the text flow smoothly. It’s the thing that causes boredom and immediate glazing-over...