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JULY 30, 2023

Image generated with the Image Creator from Microsoft Bing Earlier this year, I wrote two articles on how to intentionally sound design a game to help players deal with in-game challenges. Back then, I decided to skip this topic because of the somewhat conflicting evidence I kept stumbling upon during my literature review.

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JULY 24, 2023

5 Best UX Books to Elevate Your Design Skills Hey there, fellow UX enthusiasts and aspiring design wizards! Are you ready to level up your user experience game and advance your design skills ? We've meticulously curated a list of the five best UX books guaranteed to propel your design skills to new dimensions.

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JULY 27, 2021

We’re surrounded by visions of the future, in literature, TV, film, and even music videos. Most of these are simply for entertainment purposes, but things like Black Mirror have shown how a plausible vision of the future can spark important reflection and debate around topics such as privacy. Build the design community you believe in.

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JUNE 20, 2021

Why and how designers can sensitise cross-functional partners to good visual aesthetics and help make craftsmanship a team effort. Designer-magic” When designers work on visual craftsmanship, they use the building blocks of the trade?—?the It wordlessly guides users to achieve their desired outcome. the visual material.

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UX Collective

JANUARY 21, 2022

Designer’s four roles in agile development Design has four distinctive roles in agile software development. If you are a business owner, a design manager, or an individual designer, you must understand these roles and ensure that you have proper resources for each of them.

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UX Collective

JULY 12, 2022

It’s important to incorporate proper design feedback processes to ensure that the organization can learn and improve during debates and discussions. Use the “same language” As a designer, you deal with feedback on an everyday basis. One day, you may receive feedback on your solutions from your design colleagues or product managers.

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UX Collective

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Imagine that you and your team have finally managed to build a Design System (DS) to be applied across various products. However, even after going through this process, you’ve noticed several different impediments affecting the adoption levels of the DS within your teams — both in relation to the designers and developers involved.

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UX Collective

OCTOBER 5, 2023

But best of all, it’s an excellent choice for AI-infused behavioral product design. With this list, I could audit digital products and reverse engineer their psychological design patterns. Learning each field’s behavior change approach takes time because you need to enter their headspace to understand their literature.

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MARCH 6, 2024

This powerhouse partners with over 200 leading universities and companies like Yale, Google, IBM, and more to deliver thousands of courses on virtually every topic imaginable. This platform hosts over 200,000 video courses created by over 70,000 instructors covering an incredibly diverse range of topics. Want to learn Python?

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UX Collective

JULY 24, 2023

Think inside the box: How accessibility shapes digital product design How constraints ignite creativity, spark innovation, and why accessibility is a uniquely effective constraint everyone should embrace. Design is not art. These findings confirm what designers have instinctively been doing for a long time. Let’s see how!

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OCTOBER 29, 2019

Festival: Design Manchester. Beyond that, visitors can get involved in the debate for what makes a liveable city, hear more about The Designers’ Republic’s new book and get “shirty” at the National Football Museum’s history of football kit design exhibition. Conference: UX Brighton.

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UX Collective

JULY 29, 2022

By Olga Tichonova Universe image adapted from Alexander Meleg, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons Trying to find a job during the peak of the pandemic as a junior UX designer was a grueling process, but after months of applying, I was given the opportunity to start a 9-month internship at the Wikimedia Foundation.

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UX Collective

MARCH 19, 2023

One famous Apple industrial designer, by the name of Jonathan Ives, or Jony Ives, capitalizes on the circle physically and digitally. Although the iOS7 icon grid was a guide for designers to help app icons look "harmonious," an astute Redditor also spotted the uncanny use of the same grid in Apple’s devices.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

The term “metaverse,” which frequently appears in science fiction literature, has always been understood to refer to a virtual space where users can immerse themselves in the web (which is made up of Web 3.0 s decentralised, community-focused mindset with the functionality and appealing UX of Web 2.0 Modern UI (UX).

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JANUARY 9, 2024

The 37 Best Design Books to Level Up Your Skills As a designer, expanding your knowledge is crucial for professional growth. With so many design books out there, it can take time to identify the true gems worth investing your time into reading. Read on for the cream of the crop regarding design literature.

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UX Collective

JUNE 30, 2022

Connecting these two worlds, here are a few things I try to have in mind whenever we are designing a product experiment, keeping those biases in check and improving the chance of success. You will nearly always find some small tweaks that will help ensure success by getting designs in front of customers each step of the way.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The Value Of Concept Testing As Part Of Product Design. The Value Of Concept Testing As Part Of Product Design. UX design teams are passionate about our approach to solving problems and providing users with experiences that lead to their desired outcomes. Victor Yocco. 2021-11-05T11:00:00+00:00. 2021-11-05T14:34:47+00:00.

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UX Collective

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

As designers of products that help motivate people to attain their goals, should we be worried? There are a lot of products out there, designed by smart and thoughtful people, that aim to guide us toward our life goals: to be more mindful, to be physically fit, to save money, to learn a language, to read more. Listen to Jerry instead.

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UX Collective

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Photo by engin akyurt on Unplash Empathy is a common word in UX. It’s actually during this stage that Product Owners, UX Writers, and UX Designers get a better feeling of users, their desires, and frustrations; and, gradually, begin to turn those desires and frustrations into their own. Not surprisingly, tho. Value this.

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UX Collective

JULY 20, 2024

How UX professionals are confident and skeptical of LLMs. However, even if AI is capable of automating some of our workflows and saving us time , it is still unclear if UX professionals are ready to outsource their research processes to a machine. Image generated with Microsoft’s Copilot Researched and written with Irina Wagner, PhD.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2023

How naming your UX Research findings can make them stick Developing an understanding of user needs and identifying concrete design recommendations requires a combination of rigorous research, careful analysis, and effective communication. Scientific literature is full of great names that helped concepts catch on.

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APRIL 22, 2022

I already feel a bit ridiculous obsessing over these topics to such an extent, so you can imagine how I felt when I found out that management researchers call it the “penguin problem”. Fractalized Franchising I believe current management literature has only partially comprehended how credible agreements affect business models.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2021

mostly by reading previously published literature relating to their topic. In design, this may also involve doing some initial design experimentation. Learning more about a topic area—whether through reading or experimentation—increases our knowledge but it also pushes out the boundaries of our world.

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OCTOBER 21, 2022

Tambora caused a similar effect, creating the “ Year Without a Summer ” that writer Amitav Ghosh traces as indirectly responsible for the birth of science fiction in literature in his essay The Great Derangement ). Thanks for reading this post about the geoengineering and design.

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UX Collective

JANUARY 14, 2022

Thomas Bohm’s interview with Joanna Suau originally published in Information Design Journal on 20 December, 2021. Photo by Douglas Lopes on Unsplash TB: How did you start working with information, writing and design? JS: After I finished my studies (English literature), I decided to become a self-employed language coach.

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UX Collective

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Why I went to Data Science school to become a better designer. When I tell my professors and classmates that I’m a designer they tend to assume that I’m looking to transition out of doing design work and get a job with a title like “Data Analyst”. Design efforts on the scale of weeks, effects on the scale of years.

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UX Collective

JANUARY 11, 2022

Photo by Martin Sanchez on Unsplash The trend of designing realistic virtual 3D worlds has emerged again. Features that are not part of the vehicle nor of the functionality of the system (S-V-) This section is not that relevant for the design but may help the selection of appropriate metaphors.

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UX Collective

JANUARY 1, 2023

Asking questions is a craft that is at the heart of what UX Researchers do. It is complex, and comes with a rich and eclectic literature inspired by sociology, psychology, and other social sciences. As research partners, the interviewer and the participant should move from one topic to another as they both see fit.

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JANUARY 28, 2023

This lesson works well for entrepreneurs, but not so much for folks who make a living from design. Everyone in Design, especially those who advocate for Design Thinking, talk about Empathy as the foundational trait, but when attempting to understand it as a means to improve it, instructions were limited.

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UX Collective

JULY 5, 2021

The making of an emoji: the art of conveying meaning Created in the 90’s by Japanese technologists, most notably by designer Shigetaka Kurita , emojis have been integrated into the Unicode standard since 2010. A lot of care goes into emoji design, and it raises its share of unexpected questions. Anyone can submit a proposal?—?feel

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JUNE 7, 2023

Brainstorming ideas As a designer, I’ve learned that one way of producing good ideas is to encourage people to diverge, and think of as many ideas as possible. So far I’ve covered how Generative AI can be designed & used to create artifacts effectively and foster creativity (this article). Let me know! Thanks for reading!

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JANUARY 14, 2023

But it was much later, towards the end of the 19th century , that the idea of an automated society, filled with robots at home and work, appeared in literature, science and popular culture. As a UX designer, I’m always wondering what impact these issues can have on user experience and what working with AI means.

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JUNE 13, 2021

What decisions a designer will run into while designing learning experiences. There is no way to evaluate whether a piece of knowledge was grasped the way the designer intended, since the outcome may not always reflect what was learnt. Both knowledge and skill, can be gained at the end of learning or practice sessions.

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MARCH 9, 2022

Behavior & Knowledge In the last two decades, individuals like BJ Fogg founder and director of Stanford’s Behavior Design Lab: Models and Methods For Behavior Change: have been bridging research, psychology, technology, and products in and outside of the lab. Another resource from Palo Alto in the last decade has been scientist Andrew D.

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OCTOBER 30, 2023

Feel free to jump to topics that interest you: Intro: My personal experience with OKRs Intro: The surface problems 1. The argument here is not against goal-setting — it’s advocating for goals designed to be resilient to inevitable change. And of course, whatmatters.com is also a great place to start.

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AUGUST 19, 2021

Ethics are an important part of human-computer interaction because they keep people at the heart of the design process. As UX practitioners, we know empathy is an important part of the design process. Interaction Design Foundation. How To Build An Ethical User Research Practice At Any Organization. Devin Harold.

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JANUARY 5, 2022

UX, Surveillance Capitalism, and the “Banality of Evil” It is not recent news that we are living in an era when everyday objects boot up, connect, and are infused by algorithms of all kinds, driving our governance, lifestyle, and more importantly, our social interactions. To boost profits, UX has turned into user exploitation.

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