Matthew Magain (@mattymcg) is co-founder of UX Mastery. Based in Melbourne, he works as a freelance designer, illustrator and entrepreneur under the name of Useractive.
He enjoys sketchnoting at conferences and spends his spare time writing and illustrating children’s books.
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Matt attended Web Directions Code last week, and it got him thinking about the degree that coding plays (or should play) in the role of a user experience designer.
In addition to penning his thoughts, he created an experimental videoscribe to accompany this post.
Ever feel like you’re reinventing the wheel on each project that you tackle?
Perhaps you need to make use of templates. Whether it’s a skeleton document that you’ve refined yourself over the years, or a handy file made available by someone else, templates can bring a huge speed boost to your workflow.
Matt happens upon an industrial design anomaly that leaves him puzzled: a confusing label on a toilet roll dispenser.
What lessons can we learn from the design of physical products, and how can we apply them to digital design?
Ever wish you had enough HTML and JavaScript skills to create prototypes of advanced interactions directly in the browser?
Matt reviews a new course on creating interactive HTML prototypes: Livetyping, by Martin Polley.
In a recent trip to visit his parents in the house in which he grew up, Matt stumbled upon a gem from his childhood: a kid’s book dedicated to typography.
He relives some of the moments that sparked his initial interest in design.
Where does sketchnoting fit into the design process? And why are UX Designers so drawn to creating visual notes?
Matt explores these questions and more. Could sketchnoting be the perfect platform for practicing core design skills?
Matt attended Conference2013 in Sydney last week, a conference dedicated to innovation, organised by the Hargraves Institute.
He took his notebook and created sketchnotes of some of the presentations.
If you’re a regular subscriber to our newsletter, you’ll be familiar with the illustrated UX Quick Tip that we include in each issue.
Matt pulls together some of his favourite quick tips from past newsletters, including the corresponding illustration for each one.
Matt divines lessons for UX Designers from one of his favourite movies, The Blues Brothers.
What do two black-suit-and-sunglass-wearing, cigarette-smoking, morally compromised musicians have to do with user experience design? As it turns out, quite a lot …
In the second of our series of reviews of online UX courses, we look at a course claiming to be “the ultimate guide to usability”.
Is this just marketing hyperbole, or a deserving description of the content? Matt investigates…