Design | Experience
How to deal with feedback from multiple stakeholders
As you start working with more and more stakeholders, there is a natural tendency to try to accommodate every bit of feedback received.
This is something we refer to as “Design by committee”.
It’s also a surefire way to build subpar experiences by combining multiple irrelevant ideas into a single solution, rather … Read the rest
Fantastic work by fine folks at Carnegie Mellon University around AI interaction flows, clustering, memory handling and context switching — with interesting concepts to explore and build upon. Discovered via Dan Saffer.
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https://medium.com/ui-for-ai/prototyping-concepts-160f9e0dde4f
Practical tips to continuously improve your visual design skills
While many understand the benefits of a design system—creating a structure built for scalability—some worry that they’ll lose flexibility. But there doesn’t have to be a tradeoff between consistency and creative freedom.
The problem is that making changes to the design system can lead to issues, like discrepancies between Figma files, Git Repositories, and outdated documentation. In turn, that could … Read the rest
Cognitive biases are inherent mental shortcuts that influence decision-making and information processing, impacting users and designers in product development. These biases can lead to flawed design decisions, incorrect user assumptions, and negative user experiences, requiring designers to be aware of their own biases and employ strategies like user-centered design to create better products.
View this wonderful repository of cognitive biases, … Read the rest
Designing Cross-Cultural and Multi-Lingual UX. Guidelines on how to stress test our designs, how to define a localization strategy and how to deal with currencies, dates, word order, pluralization, colors and gender pronouns.
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/vitalyfriedman_ux-design-activity-7366004263535157248-Qdh0
Design without research is just guesswork.
UX Research gives us the tools to move from assumptions → insights → solutions.
From user interviews to A/B testing, each method reveals a different layer of user behavior and needs.
The key isn’t using all of them.
It’s knowing which method to use, when.
If you had to pick only one research method … Read the rest