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. So, the question is, what kind of systems do we want to design for?

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UX Collective

JANUARY 19, 2022

You then try to look at the resources on their sites to try and learn more about their products and the tutorials aren’t clicking. Now look, we can do this the easy way or the hard way, up to you” Everyone develops their own sense of what they need to get the most out of the product and what works for them.

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Inkbot Design

DECEMBER 14, 2023

All this will define your design strategy. Among his other nine principles, Rams favours design, which uses his phrase, “unobtrusive.” It’s worthwhile to quote him in full: “Good design is unobtrusive. Products fulfilling a purpose are like tools. In this post, we looked at the evergreen paradigms of email design.

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UX Collective

AUGUST 22, 2023

As a designer, I’ve seen time and again how the right hue can breathe life into a design, turning it into an experience that really resonates with users. Emotional design, to me, is designing with heart. It’s about creating designs that make users feel good, that stir their hearts and speak to their souls.

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UX Collective

JULY 27, 2021

Useful ways you can manage (and master) the user experience journey Continue reading on UX Collective ».

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UX Collective

JULY 21, 2023

Me “doing strategy” for the first time as a designer. This was my first experience as a principal product designer. When I was first promoted beyond Senior Product Designer, I was glad to work at a higher level and help steer larger company initiatives. Only problem is I didn’t know what strategy was.

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UX Collective

DECEMBER 30, 2021

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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UX Collective

JULY 1, 2022

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. We should “get” them and the work they do just like we “get” coding and the work engineers do, as the three of our domains together comprise the engine of product development.

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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. There’s known value here, but no shared and understood model of how research work works in the product-sphere.

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UX Collective

MAY 4, 2023

How are design teams performing today? Data collected from 3+ organisations in different industries to understand design teams’ productivity have all consistently shown that on average, on the quarterly roadmap, only 15–20% of the projects are delivered according to the original plan. In one word: inefficiencies cause waste.

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UX Collective

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 25, 2023

This mantra wraps up everything about how UX should solve experience challenges; the whole phrase from Dieter Rams goes, “Less, but better — because it concentrates on the essential aspects, and the products are not burdened with non-essentials. Back to purity, back to simplicity.”

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UX Collective

MAY 19, 2022

This production rhythm bases its core on launching and testing to iterate and get better results soon (we are already familiar with this). I re-interpreted the well-known Eisenhower matrix in the graphic above to make it functional for design projects. Design status? Take what you can see. How to mitigate this?

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UX Collective

DECEMBER 23, 2021

As the title suggests, I’ll assume that you have a product strategy , and I’ll focus on how to use it to direct objectives creation and align multiple teams. The first step to creating aligned OKRs is to use strategy and Direction to choose the right problems. Part of a KPI tree for e-commerce products.

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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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UX Collective

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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UX Collective

DECEMBER 14, 2023

I recognized early on that ADHD could be seen as a risk by employers or product partners that could hurt growth opportunities and increased product ownership later down the line. Yes, she fired me after 1 day of managing me. You are not a strong designer, the level of your skills are not cut out for product design.

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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. The role of a designer is not to only to plan and implement the testing, but to interpret the results, which may pose quite a challenge.

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UX Collective

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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UX Collective

MARCH 19, 2025

It limits how much value it creates for the business and its customersand well talk about that in a secondbut it also allows teams to fill up the product with failed features they ship hoping something willstick. As more features are added, it becomes harder to make the overall design coherent and sensical.

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UX Collective

APRIL 14, 2025

Autonomous systems can scope, build, and deploy functional products with minimal human input. It wont be just what a product does. In a future where code becomes cheap and automation is everywhere, emotional residue may become the most valuable output of design. And it will be the most human part of every product wemake.

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