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Your users want results, not compromises. Photo by Andre Frueh on Unsplash Your design team is pushing for simplification to make users’ lives easier. Your sales team is advocating for power features to close deals. Your customer success team is demanding both — a clearly impossible feat. You’re stuck between the proverbial rock and hard […]
A 1969 book has been sabotaging your personal career growth and has silently strangled wide-reaching career progress for decades. This concept — the Peter Principle — gave a name to an old but vague notion in traditional American hierarchical organizations, and it’s been influencing promotion strategies ever since. It’s almost understandable why dated organizations would […]
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3. One error icon has been used on the step node, and the same icon has been used in the right panel where the tool suggests how the user can fix the step 4. And the fourth observation is a typical input field level error message “Please complete this required field”. Looking at the complexity […]
While the UX community has quickly embraced Large Language Models as design tools, we’ve largely overlooked their more profound implications. Now, as AI agents become integrated throughout our digital products, we face a fundamental transformation: these systems are evolving from tools into active participants in our digital environments, and we need to design for them. […]
“But the story of humanity, and much of its beauty, is the struggle of the good against the powerful forces that generate misery.”— No, Sam Altman, AI Won’t Solve All Of Humanity’s Problems. Steven Levy, 27/9/24, Wired If you have a general conversation with anyone, unless they are philosophers, it is unlikely we will be […]
How to present your work when it isn’t visually stunning Photo by Thirdman: https://www.pexels.com/photo/light-person-holiday-vacation-6533509/ “I’m not sure what to do. There seems to be a heavy emphasis on Visual Design,” a designer complained, reminding me of where I struggled years ago. There’s no getting around it: many organizations nowadays prioritize visuals. Applying to specific jobs […]
Over 100 million athletes worldwide use Strava to track their activities and connect with other athletes. In this article, we’ll dive into how Strava uses communities and psychological principles to keep users engaged and motivated. At the heart of Strava’s social engagement is the activity feed. Let’s break it down into components: Activity titles Being […]
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers. “Showing an image of four competing smartphones of the day, Jobs said, ‘What’s wrong with their user interfaces? Well, the problem with them is really sort of in the bottom 40 [percent] there. …They all have these keyboards that are there whether you need them or […]
Anticipating and designing for failure Source: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11423-023-10329-7 As designers, we often focus on creating experiences that “seamlessly” guide users toward success. But, what about those inevitable times when things don’t go as planned? I hate to say this, but many designers and business stakeholders still overlook the Design Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (DFMEA) even […]