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The many deaths of UX design

UX Collective

It’s widely believed that designers are busy asking people what they prefer, but haven’t we all heard the fake Henry Ford’s quote about faster horses? In 2009, Walmart lost a tremendous amount of money after having launched “an uncluttering project” and asking their customers whether they’d like “Walmart aisles to be less cluttered?”.

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A creative’s guide on starting a company

UX Collective

This could be in the form of a client who’s willing to take a chance on us and give us our first project to get going. When we started, we didn’t have a client. I met him and his partner John Boiler first at a meeting for Xbox, a client his agency 72andsunny and AKQA that I was working for shared from 2005 or 2006 for multiple years.

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