UX Design. Do you care more about technique or ideas? Often you can get lost in the latest hot application and how to use its features and optimising them. You get the latest plugins and use them to create designs, you learn the shortcut keys and start creating reusable components and auto layouts. Soon, design […]
Do you take culture into account when doing User Research? Country culture. Company culture. The user’s culture. The job to be done is very important, but so too are the attitudes and cognitive biases around it. Is the user: – Outgoing or reserved? – Conservative or Reckless? – Confident or Unsure? Does the user have […]
Sadly, it gets put at the bottom of the stack like a 2nd class citizen. Budgets are not there, and many companies don’t understand how important it is to do it and get it right. It needs to be prioritised like any other paid work your team does. Building software, it’s always easier to do […]
Tech comes and goes, here’s a few that have had viciously quick boom and bust cycles: – Bitcoin – Blockchain – NFTs – AI Currently in the AI phase, the hype is wild! But the reality is even better than this. Imagine an application remembering what you did last time and then helping you do […]
Designers, Product Managers and Developers are not separate entities, they work together with Stakeholders to help their Users. The PM hears about a need and then reviews it with the Designer. They come up with a plan and start reviewing it with Stakeholders. Once the problem is understood, and verified as solved, then a conversation […]
Tools and processes can facilitate communication and collaboration between designers and developers. Design handoff tools and regular sync meetings can enhance collaboration and minimise development changes later. Miro is a great tool to not only kick off a project but to remind the team of decisions made along the way. Design Handoff Tools are critical […]
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Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration
Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration: Invite developers to design critiques and involve them in the UX design process, particularly Design Thinking. This fosters collaboration and ensures that both teams work together efficiently, everyone rowing in the same direction. Developers can provide valuable insights into technical feasibility and implementation challenges. I see this work really well even with more […]
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Collaborate with your developer
Shared Understanding between designers and developers. Meet in the middle! It sounds simple but like any good negotiation, you need to see their point of view, and you need to understand where they are coming from. This opens the door to collaboration. Understand the trials of the tireless designer, championing the user and working with […]
As a UX Designer, you can communicate well with development teams in your designs. I wholeheartedly believe in this, and it’s not a question if a designer should learn to code or not, but you should at least understand how it works. Use it as a limitation to then drive creativity (I always use the […]
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Don’t be afraid of AI
Quick thought: There’s a lot of talk, and concern, about AI right now. To me at least its use is pretty simple. Like doing a Google search, you need to know what AI can provide then help it give you what you need. That means give it a prompt then give it more prompts to […]