Category: Design Strategy

Director of Product Design

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A Director of Product Design is a high-level leadership role responsible for the overall design strategy, team health, and user experience (UX) quality across an entire company or a large business unit.1

While a Product Designer focuses on the craft of building features, the Director focuses on the system that allows designers to succeed.2 Think of them as … Read the rest

Sizing UX deliverables

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This is a method called Relative Sizing for UX teams to improve project estimations. Instead of estimating work based on time, which is often inaccurate, this method focuses on estimating based on three variables: effort, complexity, and risk.

Here’s how the process works:

  1. The UX team lists all their deliverables and creates checklists for each.
  2. The team
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Navigation menus designing principles

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What are the key principles for designing user-friendly navigation menus?

Navigation menus are essential for helping users find what they need on your website or app. They can also showcase your creativity and innovation, if you design them well. But what are the key principles for making your menus user-friendly, accessible, and engaging? Here are some tips to consider.

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key techniques for UX redesign:

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Here are some key techniques for UX redesign:

1. User Research:

  • Surveys, Interviews, and Usability Testing: Gather insights directly from users about their experiences, pain points, and preferences.
  • User Personas: Create detailed personas to represent different user types, focusing on their needs, behaviors, and goals.
  • Journey Mapping: Map out the user’s journey through your product to identify friction points and
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How To Conduct A UX Redesign

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No matter what context you work in as a UX designer, at one point or another, you’ll probably be asked to redesign a user experience. At the start of your UX career, you might even conduct an unsolicited redesign to help build up your portfolio.

Either way, you might find yourself redesigning a website, an app, or the interface of … Read the rest

Why Everything should be made as simple?

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What exactly did Einstein mean by “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler”?

Einstein’s quote “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler” emphasizes the importance of clarity and simplicity in understanding complex concepts. Here’s a breakdown of its meaning:

  1. Simplicity in Explanation: Einstein advocated for simplifying ideas to make them more
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Adopting a UX Approach

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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