How To Design For Deaf People. Practical guidelines to keep in mind for 466 million people who have some kind of deafness ↓
✅ 90–95% of deaf people come from hearing families.
✅ Deafness often occurs due to exposure to loud noises.
✅ Not only at birth; emerges with age, disease, accidents.
🚫 You can see only around 30% of … Read the rest
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Work Estimation
The work is never just “the work”
A deep dive on why projects always take longer and a framework to improve future estimation
Intro
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 Improve Time Estimates
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
UX Research Methods: Glossary
UX research requires knowledge and understanding of many jargon terms. Use this glossary as a reference as you delve into research.
Optimizing Figma Files
How To Optimize Large and Slow Figma Files, a practical case study by Doctolib on how they reduced heavy Figma files by 83% — with private nested components, auto-layout, helper components and properties standardization. Kindly shared by Jérôme Benoit and shared by Jackie Torizani.
If you run into heavy and slow files, cascade your libraries down. Split your library files … Read the rest
Accessibility Research
How to build and run accessibility research, across various dimensions — from permanent and temporary to situational and travel, across touch, seeing, hearing, speaking and thinking.
How We’ve Built Accessibility Research at Booking.com” (https://lnkd.in/eq_3zSPJ), a fantastic case study on how to build accessibility practices and inclusive design into UX research from scratch. Kindly put together by Maya Alvarado.
🚫 Don’t … Read the rest
UX Storytelling
“No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world.” – Mr. Keating
In UX, user stories build empathy by putting the audience in the users’ shoes. They also establish a common vocabulary and, because they emotionally involve the audience, they are memorable and often get audience members to buy in the UX endeavors behind the … Read the rest
A leader has the people
I’m a massive fan of Simon Sinek! All of these a spot on but number 4 really stands out
Every quote resonates deeply, offering valuable insights into leadership and human connection. “Be the leader you wish you had” is a personal favorite. Thanks for compiling these
11 of the smartest things ever said by Simon Sinek:
1. “A boss has … Read the rest
Stakeholder focus groups
Stakeholder interviews and focus groups are essential methods for gathering feedback and insights from the people who are affected by or involved in a business process. They can help you identify pain points, opportunities, and expectations for process improvement. In this article, you will learn how to plan, conduct, and analyse stakeholder interviews and focus groups for process improvement.
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… Read the restAnalysing UX research
Synthesising results into valuable insights
Analysing UX research and synthesising the data that comes from it can play a huge part in the success of the end product. In this piece, we take a look at how analysing UX research will turn findings into useful insights.
UX research can be a valuable part of the UX design process. However, completing … Read the rest