Category: user-experience

Design thinking that challenges perceptions, broadens inclusion and fosters co-creation Photo by Alexander Abero on Unsplash By now, no one needs to quote facts or expert verbatim to argue that great changes are happening to both human and earth systems. And how we talk

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The days when one of architecture’s most controversial styles looks at its most resplendant The Barbican Centre in London in all its sublimity. This morning I awoke, like I often do, and fired up my laptop from which I lazily scrolled through the various news and sports

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At the end of Disney’s “Ratatouille”, Anton Ego, the former villain-food-critic-turned-good, dropped one of the most profound string of words that could possibly come from a cartoon character. These words have always stuck with me as an aspiring designer. He says, In the

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Typography Wars I will not talk about where the fonts come from, the font terms, the history of their names. Already, much more detailed information about its history can be found in the relevant books. I will explain with examples the way a designer should choose the font

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Can there be Design Leadership without Decision making Prowess? This is a question that a few colleagues have asked me in the past, and rightfully so, since Designers, particularly as they move through the ranks and aim to achieve positions of leadership, there’s also an

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I wanted to design an immersive indoor cycling experience synchronized to music. I named it Cychedelia ©. Projection-Based Augmented Reality I was inspired by an exhibition I visited at the Singapore Art Science Museum; Future World: Where Art Meets Science. I too wanted to

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Everyone can have a different idea of what this (User-Centered Design Process) is. There’s no industry standard, but for me, every business at its core solves the problem. That’s why people come to you for business because you offer the best solution they’re looking for, and

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This was a design challenge. The exercise took me roughly 3 days to finish, including the documentation of this case study. People have to use multiple apps to track their fitness activity and do workouts. Since SSG already tracks steps, distance, and calories, the challenge

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If I could wave a magic wand, every morning I’d start each day in front of a product metrics dashboard. This might be the equivalent of Mixpanel or Segment. I’d be able to, at a glance, see how users have adopted each new feature that we released, and how it’s impacted the

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photo base by Semen Borisov In our drive for efficiency and effectiveness, we tend to present finished solutions and ready-made decisions to employees. However well-intentioned, this can have a negative impact on the value people place on change. On the other hand, if you

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1. Even a complex workshop consists of simple steps Workshops can have different titles, but they always consist of basic exercises. Depending on the order and number of exercises, a workshop obtains its shape and leads to certain results. 2. Any atomic activity can be

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Photo by Jeswin Thomas on Unsplash Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a research-based set of principles that together form a practical framework for using technology to maximize learning opportunities for every student (Rose & Meyer, 2002). This means that educators

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Beyond fancy concepts, frameworks, and names, the UX relies on an essential human input: experience and Logic usage Many companies are pivoting into a digital transformation; this supposes many job changes, mindsets, and new workflows. In Colombia, these changes often create

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The scope of a re-design is gauged by goals and the process of re-design is quite similar to that of designing a new product from scratch. You start by gathering the brains behind the product and set them on a journey to re-think all the way back from “what” you have today

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The one thing you’re going to hate as a UX designer and it’s unavoidable is working with other people. You Can’t Understand? Let me sink that in. Just think for a second, what do you hate about your job? What are the things that irritate you? Isn’t it always related to

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Many of us have been in fast-changing work situations that rarely allow us to think things through. Formulating proper questions, outlining assumptions and gathering information would be a good way to deal with such situations. However, hasty changes are one of the best

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Let’s audit Step 1–Content: While I am here to tell you about the importance of a content audit, I am also not here to lie. This part of the process is a tedious one. Meaning you open the spreadsheet, and start adding every single piece of content to one row after another.

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Figma is one of the designer’s favorite tools of 2020. It offers many things that help designers, and from those things.. Figma plugins are my favorite. Figma has a great collection of free plugins that are easy to install and use. I love its simplicity and efficiency. But

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Optimistic UI; a design and application/web-oriented method to improve the user experience. Its use and operation are slightly different, but its purpose is the same as many UX improvements; not to reflect delays to the user. We don’t want to show the user lags most of the

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Conducting this analysis gave me an understanding of what viewers are already accustomed to while viewing e-sports events and providing insight into various layouts used by different games. Takeaways: There are two conventional ways stats are structured — either vertically

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