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APRIL 22, 2022

An example of well thought design for longevity is Vitso which makes long-living furniture, inspired by Dieter Rams and his principles for good design. Designing furniture and striving to be better rather than newer clearly leaning on the six design strategies for longer lasting products.

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UX Collective

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

In this first part, I’ll focus on the scope and the opportunities to tap into service design to reduce our impact on the planet. In a future post, I will focus on the service design strategies and tools to do so. However, using service design for a circular economy isn’t just about supporting circular behaviours and lifestyles.

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JUNE 20, 2023

Stifling innovation and wasting talent: the hidden consequences of organisational practices on design potential. image generated using Dall•e 2 on nightcafe.studio Design in product development is both a science and an art.

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JANUARY 19, 2022

Alternative solutions & owning ecosystems There is nothing quite like a perfect fit, especially if you are the guy selling the cloth So you’re learning something new, whether it’s Adobe After Effects, Excel or something physical like Magic The Gathering; there is so much to learn and see. The question is, where to start?

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UX Collective

JULY 1, 2022

Fortunately, that’s over, but it really does help us designers to at least get a feel for coding so we can work more smoothly and empathetically with our engineering teammates. As a designer, I still code a little myself both at work and as a hobby. The same goes with our product management (PM) teammates.

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UX Collective

AUGUST 22, 2023

But here’s another layer of complexity: our stakeholders, ranging from product managers to CEOs, also bring their own palette of biases. link] Analogous colour schemes: We’re kicking things off with a favourite design strategy: analogous colour schemes. That’s an analogous colour scheme.

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JUNE 13, 2022

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 I invite you to read the proposal below and join the conversation.

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UX Collective

MAY 10, 2023

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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UX Collective

MAY 25, 2023

Not everything needs a communication plan; part of creating a design strategy is to think about how and when to communicate things to make them relevant to users. So, one of the most critical skills for designers is communicating design intent; as Kazden Cattapan recalls in the article, “Design communication is a critical skill.”

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UX Collective

MAY 4, 2023

Step 1: the context: poor planning and tools There is often tension between product and design, especially when the final roadmap has limited details and when it is delivered with poor cross-functional collaboration.

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UX Collective

JULY 21, 2023

Only problem is I didn’t know what strategy was. I started reading books, saving articles, shadowing product managers, and seeking out mentors. Marketing) Product Managers know a little bit about all this and are a great resource. At a company meetup years ago, we had a 45min brainstorm about new product ideas.

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UX Collective

MAY 19, 2022

Whether you have previous experience with this or not, be sure to evidence in a meeting or document all the constraints and viable solutions that make up the “final” shape of the product. Ideally, this is a product manager job, but it is not a rule; if you point out the issue, you can help to solve it. Design status?

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UX Collective

JUNE 16, 2022

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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SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Exploring the principles of a decision-driven approach Source: Midjourney In a previous post , we introduced a conversation that isn’t new (mentioned as early as 2010) but, it’s coming back with force —  decision-driven vs. data-driven decision making.

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DECEMBER 30, 2021

From disruptor to disrupted in 1000 pages Reading “Tinderbox: HBO’s Ruthless Pursuit of New Frontiers” by James Andrew Miller [1] over the past few weeks has been a lot of fun. I love entertainment industry history, and Mr. Miller’s ambitious epics are amongst my favorites.

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UX Collective

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Every three months the dreaded OKR setting process begins.

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DECEMBER 14, 2023

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. Part of our role is helping others understand ideas and concepts through visual presentation. So what’s race car thinking?

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OCTOBER 30, 2023

My background is in design and product management, not machine learning, but the compelling arguments for me were: There is value in learning and curiosity with no defined end There is a relationship between ‘explore’ and ‘exploit’ activities — though it’s inherently a tradeoff, each reinforces the other.

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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.

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UX Collective

MARCH 19, 2025

The specific framework you use isnt as important as the actual exercise of properly framing the problem and using that common understanding to resolve the inevitable tradeoffs of product development. Lets talk about the elephant in the room: The turf war between product managers and designers.

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UX Collective

APRIL 14, 2025

Why designs most human contribution is now its most strategic advantage Photo by vackground.com on Unsplash The shift thats already happening More and more, our tools are designing with us, or forus.

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