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As a designer, should you be a generalist or a specialist?

Being a generalist designer works best at a start-up company. Being a specialist works best at a bigger company. Is there more nuance here though? It is easy to get the two confused. For example, a designer applies to a start-up company hoping to build their portfolio when in reality they are pixel pushing for […]

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UX Design UX Musings

Do you care more about technique or ideas?

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 […]

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UX Culture UX Design UX Musings UX Research

Do you take culture into account when doing User Research?

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 […]

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Accessibility UX Design

Accessibility is a large, vital part of Usability

Building software, it’s always easier to do it right than to do it twice, and it’s always easier to do Accessibility when you’re building than after you release it to the world.

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UX Design UX Musings

Are you chasing the latest hot new trend or do you want something useful?

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 […]