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Design Thinking UX Culture UX Design UX Job Market UX Musings

A Good Story Leads you to the Truth

Your life is a collection of stories (memories) that chisel and shape you into who you are. How do you use stories in your design work?

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Accessibility UX Design

Design your text to be more scannable

Users often take text for granted, but they know when it’s wrong. But as a UX designer you can’t. You have to think carefully about designing text to be easily scannable. It’s the little things that matter.

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Code & Development Design Thinking UX Design UX Retrospective

Review Your Workflow for Better Design Delivery

Think about your design delivery process. When you provide designs to your development team on a feature, how smooth is the transition?

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Artificial Intelligence UX Design UX Maturity UX Musings

Use the Moat Concept to focus on your competitive advantage

What is the “Moat” concept? Warren Buffet came up with the “moat” concept to describe how a business can protect itself from its competition. How imposing the moat is, the harder it is for competitors to take over the business (or in this case, a castle).

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UX Design UX Musings UX Research

Cross Docking could be a good user research method

User research is the cornerstone upon which UX design is built. Try applying the technique of Cross Docking to your UX research process.

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Design Thinking UX Design UX Musings

Use Event Storming to discover innovative insights

I love discovering new techniques for uncovering insights. Hat tip to a coworker who showed me a cool technique called Event Storming.

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UX Culture UX Design UX Maturity UX Research UX Talks

Māori Maps Brings Marae to the World

Well at least up to the front gate. As is tradition, you have to be invited in to visit a marae.