Design | Experience
In 2025, UX design is heavily influenced by AI, personalization, and the need for seamless, intuitive interactions across various platforms and devices.
Designers are focusing on hyper-personalization, voice interfaces, and accessibility, while also grappling with ethical considerations surrounding AI and data privacy.
UX in 2025 isn’t about looking good.
It’s about layering the right principles so your product survives real-world … Read the rest
UX design deliberation refers to the thoughtful consideration and careful decision-making process a UX designer undertakes throughout the design process, involving research, analysis, ideation, testing, and iteration to create intuitive, user-friendly products.
It’s the process of gathering data, understanding user needs, and weighing different design approaches to arrive at the best solutions, ensuring the final product provides a gratifying … Read the rest
A UX team structure clearly defines the roles and responsibilities of each team member, to whom they should report, and how they’ll work with other teams. How you organize your UX team depends on many factors, including product needs, resources, UX work needed, and company culture. To help you choose what team structure … Read the rest
Scope management for UX involves clearly defining and controlling the project’s deliverables, goals, and boundaries to ensure the user experience aligns with business needs while preventing scope creep. Key practices include involving stakeholders for consensus, creating a detailed scope statement and Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), implementing a robust change management process, and maintaining open communication to track progress and … Read the rest
Design leadership is about more than just overseeing projects; it involves creating a culture where creativity and productivity can flourish. A good design leader serves as a mentor, guiding team members in their professional development while also protecting their well-being.
Servant leadership is … Read the rest
Adopting a Consistent, Clear, and Comprehensive Approach to UX that Aligns to Software Development
UX DESIGNERS HAVE A PROBLEM
Unlike with software development, where engineering approaches are generally well-defined and understood after 30+ years of the Internet at scale, UX design is still looked upon as a mysterious black box, or (worse) a brief step involving “prettying” up UI code … Read the rest
UX design documentation is a vital part of any project that involves creating or improving user interfaces and experiences. It helps you communicate your design vision, rationale, and process to various stakeholders, such as clients, developers, testers, and users. However, creating effective UX design documentation can be challenging, especially if you don’t have a clear scope and goals for it. … Read the rest
Onboarding UX Playbook (https://lnkd.in/eiKcTgZd), a practical guide on how to design better onboarding, common mistakes to avoid and some practical guidelines — along with decision trees and Figma templates below. Neatly put together by Ben Shih.
Ben highlights a few valuable points that are often forgotten or overlooked. In many interfaces, onboarding ends after just a few of … Read the rest
A deep dive on why projects always take longer and a framework to improve future estimation
If you’re like me, you’re maybe a jobbing dev taking on contracts and occasionally your own gigs (and by-and-large this works out OK) but maybe you secretly hate yourself for being terrible at estimation, and wish … Read the rest
how to estimate better and how to be prepared when things go sideways. By Dave Stewart.
✅ “Planned work” may be as little as 20% of the total project effort.
✅ “Extra work” increases proportionally to the complexity of the work.
✅ Account for changes (20%) and unexpected slowdowns (15%).
✅ Access to data, docs, tools, people is a … Read the rest