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Leveraging neurodivergent traits for design strategy

UX Collective

With the added ownership, your strength will come from the ability to tie business outcomes and impact back to design outcomes and contributions. Some designers have shared that they can hear ideas or problems shared with them from product managers or other stakeholders, and in those moments they can visualize a solution in their mind.

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The waves of research practice

UX Collective

The current wave is cresting, ready to wash over software design and product management. And third-wave research will reach even higher, moving into product and organizational strategy. Early twenty-teens product zeitgeist was “getting out of the building.” We needed customers and we needed insights.

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Understanding privacy-enhancing design

UX Collective

Privacy-Enhancing Design aims at tackling unfair and deceptive design practices in the context of data protection (such as deceptive patterns ) by empowering UX designers and educating organizations about the positive and transformative impact UX design can have on privacy protection.

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Hot take: Design interviews have become anti-design

UX Collective

Regardless of which task you’ve been given, the interviewer is most likely looking to gauge your product thinking, design strategy, communication skills, and user empathy. Where did the “design” in design interviews go? Product design, UX, and other user-involved design roles always, to some extent, I hope(!?)

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The data protection design & privacy-enhancing design manifesto

UX Collective

I hope to involve other privacy and data protection specialists, UX designers, product managers, lawmakers and anyone interested in building better privacy and data protection practices. WHY DATA PROTECTION DESIGN? DATA PROTECTION DESIGN?—?A Dark patterns and manipulative personalisation: final report.”

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Fixing a complex problem like climate change with the circular economy and digital technology

UX Collective

Designing furniture and striving to be better rather than newer clearly leaning on the six design strategies for longer lasting products. Shifting to a digital product mindset and product thinking helps not only create a more sustainable business but attracts digital talent too.

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