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This is why I don’t call myself a service designer any more

UX Collective

The road to design maturity gets longer The inflation of design as a profession and why I no longer call myself a service designer Photo is by Jan Huber from Unsplash I love doing service design. Courses like these work as a wonderful form of marketing and extra income source as well as a way of HR tool for recruits.

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40 Best Creative Podcasts To Liven Up Your Day

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In his 2015 book, Design Your Life, Vince Frost laid out his central idea that design thinking can apply to everything from business to life. Design Matters. In 2005, Debbie Millman started a radio show, Design Matters, which became the first-ever of the design and creative podcasts. Listen here.

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Don Norman and the Emotional Side of Design

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” Sale Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things Norman, Don A. Author) English (Publication Language) 272 Pages – 05/11/2005 (Publication Date) – Basic Books (Publisher) −$6.10 $11.89 Buy on Amazon Why Does Emotional Design Matter?

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The waves of research practice

UX Collective

Its grounding frames are consolidated sets of user needs that extend into organizational composition and the market landscape. Except for vendors with volume plays and specialists in special markets, the value to be gained here is decreasing as the wave diffuses into the background of our work. Interaction was a “higher order” (cf.

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Designing for Inclusion

UX Collective

However, we’ve also been looking outside the proverbial walls of that workplace, exploring ways in which inclusion is expressed in the industrial products and solutions we design, develop, and bring to market for our diverse users every day. Inclusive design?—?or or a lack thereof?—?plays What is bad?

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Reflections of a product designer

UX Collective

The product designer needs to think about what happens before they even get to or how they get to A, and then after they get to B, how can we follow up and get them to C, D, and F, and then come back to C later for a different reason. I’ve gotten burned out hard 2 times since I truly started my first “real tech job” in 2005.

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Web Quality Assurance: From User Requirements To Web Risk Management

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Though the VPTCS model provided us a point of view on what a website is and what the requirements of the user are, we also wanted to determine the consequences for the stakeholders of the web project i.e. those designing, producing, developing, commercializing, or marketing the website. So we added this constraint to our sanity check.