Ben Rowe is a UX Designer and Product thinker based in Melbourne. After several years ux’ing at agencies, Ben went and got a grown up job - and is now a lead UX designer for a bank.
A marketer by trade, Ben moved into design in his thirties, and discovered that UX and of Marketing actually have quite a bit in common.
Ben lives in Kyneton in central Victoria, Australia, and is expecting to have a mid-life crisis any day now.
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As a designer, what gets you out of bed in the morning? What really motivates you to do meaningful work? The Japanese have a great word: ikigai. It has no direct translation into English, but roughly means your level of happiness in life, or your ‘reason for being’.
As you can see in the chart below, you can achieve ikigai—meaning in life—if you can find the right balance of 4 things: passion, mission, vocation, profession.
Will 2017 be just another year, or will it be the year your product (or service, or experience) takes the world by storm? Ben Rowe explains how to working backwards is the secret to achieving your goals.
In this animated video Ben takes a look at wireframes; what they are, the different types, what they’re good for, and some practical advice about how to improve your own ones.
Enjoy!
We’ve been thinking a lot about the topic of delight in UX in an attempt to answer the question: “Is there a formula for delight?”
Ben Tollady and Ben Rowe, from Thirst Studios, give us their take on the topic.
