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Bala’s New York Store Is an Exercise in Bold Geometry

Azure Magazine

After getting her start as Glossier ’s creative lead of retail experiences, Ringo founded her eponymous studio in 2020 and has quickly come to specialize in designing physical storefronts for other digital-first brands like Studs and Modern Age. Memphis fanatics, eat your heart out.).

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How to improve Experience Design by managing cognitive biases

UX Collective

Open communication about cognitive biases across ranks, along with consistent action, will help organizations optimize their decision-making and create products and services that provide value, delight customers, and increase advocacy. Perspective-taking failures are common in the daily use of products and services.

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Product lessons from the history of HBO

UX Collective

But trying to be serious here, sandwiched between stories about Game of Thrones and The Sopranos, I found some exciting product anecdotes. This situation, of course, is a familiar challenge we still face today in entertainment services , with products relying too heavily on content having to face the dreaded “content treadmill” issue.

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Why I decided to become an individual contributor after 4 years of people management

UX Collective

Lessons learned as I made the decision to become a product designer again. I’d been working as a user experience designer by day while teaching UX a few times per week in the evenings at BrainStation for a couple of semesters and had discovered a passion for helping others grow and develop their skills.

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Figma updates, in defense of templates, ditch the design grid, stop using red and green together

UX Collective

But when you suddenly become responsible for strategy (as may be the case in a startup or smaller company), you may get nothing short of goosebumps?—?and Dear designer: Strategy doesn’t have to be stressful ? An overlooked tool for engagement and productivity. Food for thought Is it time to ditch the design grid? ?

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20 Essential Architecture and Design Lectures to Catch During Fall/Winter 2023

Azure Magazine

In this lecture, she speaks about designing and building in the Senegalese context, with references to its climate, culture, traditions and unique “concrete modernity.” Mboup will address working with biomaterials, passive design strategies, her various cultural projects, and her research and collaborations.

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How can we practice design without harming the Planet?

UX Collective

You are reading Design for a Better World , a publication exploring how design can create the changes needed for humans, businesses, cities, and, of course, the environment and the world. © 2020 AIGA Design Conference How can designers build eco-conscious design practices? Thank you for being here.