Design | Experience
Setting holistic, long-term product design vision and ways to achieve it
In UX leadership, a holistic, long-term vision is the “North Star” that prevents a design team from becoming a “feature factory.” It’s not just about how the product looks in two years; it’s about the emotional and functional state you want the user to reach.
Here is a framework … Read the rest
How to be better prepared to make a strong case for UX, design, research and accessibility.
AI-First UX Patterns That Will Define the Next Generation of Digital
Products
Designing a system that works seamlessly across multiple brands and multiple systems:
ElevenLabsUI – A collection of Open Source agent and audio components that you can customize and extend. The library is described as beautifully built and production-ready, eliminating the need to reinvent the UI for every AI project and allowing developers to focus on the product’s core features
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.
Read
https://medium.com/ui-for-ai/prototyping-concepts-160f9e0dde4f
Practical tips to continuously improve your visual design skills
Get essential guides, plugins, and tools to learn about design systems.
1. Resource library by Romina Kavcic:
https://thedesignsystem.guide/resources
2. Free course:
https://help.figma.com/hc/en-us/articles/14552901442839-Overview-Introduction-to-design-systems
3. Design system examples:
https://component.gallery/design-systems/
4. Free resources:
https://danmall.com/free-resources/
5. Design system talks:
https://designsystemsrepo.com/talks/
6. Design system metrics:
https://thedesignsystem.guide/design-system-metrics
7. Design system ROI calculator:
https://www.knapsack.cloud/calculator
8. Design system database
https://designsystems.surf/
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