What kind of tools do UX designers use? In this article, we talk you through the all the tools you might need throughout the UX Design process. From inspiration through to ideation and implementation.
As more and more organisations become focused on creating great experiences, more teams are being tasked with conducting research to inform and validate user experience objectives.
UX research can be extremely helpful in crafting a product strategy and ensuring that the solutions built fit users’ needs. But it can be hard to know how to get started. This article covers all the basics: from setting research objectives to choosing the method so you can uncover the information you need.
When you think about the people you love, you want the very best for them. You want to make things delightful and keep them magical. As designers, we can leverage this way of thinking to provide more immersive, engaging experiences for our users.
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.
Welcome back to UXmas for another year! In case you haven’t joined in the UXmas fun yet, we’re back with your favourite UX-themed digital advent calendar. Missed the start of UXmas? Catch up on every tasty UXmas treat from our first 10 days.
‘Star Trek’ actor Anton Yelchin died last year at the age of 27 when a Jeep pinned him against a gate and brick pillar outside his home. It turns out that his Jeep’s gearshift was poorly designed.
Poor Anton didn’t realise that the Jeep was in neutral when he got out, so it rolled backwards down the driveway, crushing him. It turns out, a mismatched mental model could be to blame. And more importantly, here’s how you can avoid Jeep’s mistake by using them with your team.
Susan Weinschenk joined us in our Slack channel to share her knowledge on psychology and neuroscience and how they can support our work as designers. Here is a transcript of the session.
When was the last time you sat, frustrated, in a meeting arguing about design features? In this article, Sarah Doody explains how a lack of quality user research can lead to overly subjective decisions, and shares three fixes we can consider instead.
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We’ve spent November looking at how psychology and neuroscience help us design for people. We used Susan Weinschenk’s book 100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People as the inspiration so we’re pretty excited that she’ll be joining us in our Slack channel next week.
