UX Collective

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The report is in its 9th edition, and it is a critical look at our industry based on more than a thousand articles published and shared with our readers in 2022. Overall Me: What’s your best advice for digital product designers right now? The most important question Me: Should designers code?

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Inkbot Design

JANUARY 24, 2024

Product Thinking: The Mindset Driving Successful Products Product thinking is emerging as a crucial skill for building great digital products in the modern technology landscape. With consumers demanding exceptional digital experiences , having a product-focused mindset can give companies an edge.

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UX Collective

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Product Management  —  why has feature bloat become such an issue? Commonly having the primary incentive of shipping more features, the focus of product management is generally on increasing usage. As the foundation of digital products, engineers own the code that solutions are created on top of.

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UX Collective

JANUARY 11, 2024

After all, often design systems are built as a product for internal use. And even if a company publishes documentation for it, it doesn’t always mean that you can use the system itself. Business needs One of the main objectives of the design system is to help the business create and maintain products faster and more efficiently.

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UX Collective

DECEMBER 27, 2021

If we roll back to the “offline era”, agencies were mastering the effort of documenting those frameworks into one-time published manuals. With the coming of digital, few aspects have changed: Changed: brands aren’t existing only offline anymore, but online. We can’t send everyone home and swap-in fresher, eager, digital designers.

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UX Collective

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

And as digital engineering becomes more sophisticated, we are grappling with the cost of change. Legacy debt: users, standards and use cases have changed multiple times as the digital economy has matured. But data products haven’t caught up. Just because you don’t return error codes, doesn’t mean it works.

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UX Collective

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

5 things I’ve learned in my Product Design role at lululemon?—?with with actionable takeaways For about three years, I worked on digital/visual design at an agency and adored my job. However, when a Product Design opportunity at lululemon presented itself, I couldn’t resist. This is true in the digital/graphic design space?—?but

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UX Collective

MAY 18, 2021

Autodesk Shotgun UI, circa 2018 One of the most rewarding experiences I’ve had during my time as a Product Manager at Autodesk has been in building out and deploying a design system. Because the design system was new, updates would often include breaking changes, and that created more work for consumers.

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UX Collective

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Source: Equalize Digital Teach them how to test product accessibility One way to reduce the “back and forth” in the approval process is to teach developers to test other types of navigations. Online validation websites Some sites like WebDev allow you to do a first test to validate your page’s code, at least in the first instance.

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UX Collective

MAY 25, 2023

The UX designer's role is to make a product or service usable, enjoyable, and accessible. While many companies design user experiences, the term is most often associated with digital design for websites and apps. It also shows some examples of modular UI components and how they can be documented and coded.

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UX Collective

MAY 24, 2023

From local to global — how to serve a worldwide customer base Cameroonian people, adding money to their digital accounts My mission to understand the world, its cultures, and its people has led me to French-speaking Africa. You can pay by sending an SMS or scanning a QR code. How does our cultural background influence product design?

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UX Collective

MARCH 31, 2022

As a data scientist that has been working in many different areas, starting in agro-tech , mobile games , and now in the no-code industry , I faced a common issue in companies that I have been so far: the fever of adding features and features to the product, waiting for the users to come. Analytics for behavioral funnels.

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Inkbot Design

JANUARY 25, 2024

Retain better – Our brains better retain knowledge from physical books than digital mediums—something about holding and interacting with traditional books cements lessons more deeply. Stay inspired – Well-written books fire creativity in ways passive digital media don't. Are you sold on the power of books?

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UX Collective

JANUARY 24, 2023

Design and product management will still be very important and report to me, but those writing great code will constitute the majority of our team and have the greatest sway. It’s hard to say whether it will indeed be the case, but it surely is for the bird app. The not so phantom menace.

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UX Collective

MARCH 14, 2022

Image credit: Illustration from the textbook, “Practical Physics”, 1922 Around 40% of products launched each year fail. Most code that is written in organizations is never used. Your product division can always ask, “ how else might we create new value around our purpose for the people we serve? ”.

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UX Collective

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Editor picks “Make it easier” is not a product strategy → Understanding the reasoning behind product decisions. By Pavel Samsonov Serendipity by design → Applying serendipity principles in the digital world. Jobs Senior Product UX Designer @ IKEA It is a great time to be in Digital Experience Design at IKEA!

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UX Collective

DECEMBER 31, 2023

It took a long time since my story How to Select Testing Techniques for an Agile Team was published (if you ask me what happened in between, the short answer will be: a war in Ukraine and a career pivot). In this story, I’ll shift to business-facing tests that guide the development and critique the product in more detail.

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UX Collective

AUGUST 3, 2021

Just about every UI/UX designer understands that developers are the gatekeepers of their digital product’s success. Because of this, it doesn’t matter how beautiful and usable our designs are if those designs can’t translate into code. When it comes to communicating with developers, that language is code.

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UX Collective

APRIL 6, 2022

Running tech support, the founders saw what gaps are present in the product development space, and after a year of tinkering launched JIRA?—?a a new paradigm in product management tools. Although the start was relatively slow, today JIRA is one of the most recommended tool for agile project management.

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UX Collective

JULY 31, 2023

However, as mentioned before, enforcing standards in your digital products also helps people without disabilities, for example, older people with changing abilities due to ageing, people who live in countries with a slow internet connection or expensive bandwidth, and so on. failures, an analysis from the non-profit WebAIM.

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UX Collective

MAY 30, 2023

For example, when I worked at Atlassian, a well known software giant that makes the popular Jira and Confluence suite of products, I worked on the administrator experience for Confluence. Imagine, you are the Product Manager responsible for the post-paid mobile portfolio. UX seeks to be holistic. Adaptovate.

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UX Collective

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Now, let’s say that your mission has several imaginary objectives (which you have no say in): Increate the sales revenue through the digital channel by 20%. Launch XYZ new products by Q2. This could be turned into a shared KR with front-end engineers if you could include the coding of the components). Sound familiar?

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UX Collective

JUNE 1, 2023

Waterfall , the double diamond , and other traditional ways of approaching the development of digital products rooted in the building perspective take for granted that it’s easier to make changes to designs than code. It’s going to be a lot cheaper to catch a problem in a design than if we catch it in production.

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Canny

AUGUST 24, 2021

With the amount of small tasks a marketing manager has to do, and the meetings and reports and endless emails, they need support. Incidentally, if you’re a marketing manager, head of marketing, CMO, or a product manager in need of a marketing team, why not get in touch and see how Canny Creative can help? PPC Manager.

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UX Collective

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

How does an ancient carpentry expression apply to digital product design? you’re talking about carpentry, this is all very well but how does this apply to digital product design? Many in the incubator community will argue you only need a minimum viable product. We’re talking about wood, of course.

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UX Collective

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Measuring a customer as if it is a piece of code, a simple button or algorithm removes what is human from them. Because it is just a piece of technology, functionality, code. This can interfere with our ability to understand them, build for them or even improve ourselves. A channel is context-less. It’s thin data.

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Canny

AUGUST 24, 2021

With the amount of small tasks a marketing manager has to do, and the meetings and reports and endless emails, they need support. Incidentally, if you’re a marketing manager, head of marketing, CMO, or a product manager in need of a marketing team, why not get in touch and see how Canny Creative can help? PPC Manager.

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Devlounge

AUGUST 1, 2022

Low code app for creating databases. Digital Marketing. If you’re looking to get on board with automation and provide your customers with top-notch digital services, 500apps’ BotUp chatbot software is a great option. No code is needed and can be completed in 3 clicks. Aviv Digital. Invoicing software.

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UX Collective

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

These involved deep research and market analysis ahead of product development. The Waterfall Scapegoat The burgeoning software industry largely followed these processes; applied to digital products, they became known as Waterfall methodology. Leadership is left scratching their heads why the product is so wonky and ineffective.

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Inkbot Design

JANUARY 2, 2024

Considering Fully Integrated Digital Experience Platforms All-in-one digital experience platforms (DXP) like Sitecore combine CMS, analytics, testing, personalisation, and optimisation tools into a single interface: This consolidated model can simplify technology management with a single vendor.

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UX Collective

APRIL 28, 2023

With its ability to generate human-like responses and understand natural language, GPT-4 has the potential to transform a wide range of industries and workflows, from product management and marketing to research and development. In this article, we will explore the narrow field of AI in productivity tools.

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UX Collective

JANUARY 9, 2024

As digital products and services have matured over the years, the tools and structures supporting them have become increasingly complex. That is particularly true in larger organisations dealing with multiple products or services across multiple platforms. Last revision: 9 January 2024.

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UX Collective

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Yet despite this, vanity metrics still appear to be a systemic problem, not only in marketing where the term first gained momentum but also in other disciplines like web and digital product design. Similarly, active new users are a better gauge of how many people are using a digital product than the total number of new users.

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UX Collective

AUGUST 4, 2021

They apply third-party source code (typically JavaScript) to make improvements to the front-end code of the website.” In fact do everything you can because the better the underlying code is, the more an overlay can do. What is an accessibility overlay? Overlays are not magic bullets. Build the design community you believe in.

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UX Collective

OCTOBER 25, 2021

The combination of Research, Copy, UX and UI has been proven to save teams 15% of the time spent on code refactoring thanks to a combined effort and a well-orchestrated iterative testing process. Managing copy delivery has been historically supported by MS Word documents being passed from one person to another via Email.”

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UX Collective

OCTOBER 13, 2021

UI design or code the logic), they work together to discover, define and develop a solution. But in the real world, that’s not how most product teams work. Product managers are defining and driving business goals/logic without involving designers or engineers. There could be many reasons behind that.

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UX Collective

AUGUST 1, 2021

Establishing and growing User Research as a discipline and team within a digital product company has so far been the most challenging and exciting task in my professional life. Onefootball iOS app design in 2016 UX research was added as an additional step within the design and product definition process. the users did it for me.

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