Design | Experience
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making changes to the design system can lead to issues, like discrepancies between Figma files, Git Repositories, and outdated documentation.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
Universal Design Playbook For UX (+ PDF Templates) (https://lnkd.in/eZnfENvc), a little helper to choose the right design methods for UX workshops, with guidelines on how to accommodate participants with diverse abilities. Each method includes step-by-step guidelines, facilitating techniques, materials — and things to do before, during and after the workshop.
All methods: https://lnkd.in/eZnfENvc
Ability prompt cards: https://lnkd.in/d2Bwd7vR
Workshop templates (PDFs): … Read the rest
How To Capture Users’ Emotions In UX. With practical guidelines and toolkits to better understand people‘s emotions and act on them ↓
✅ What people think, do, say and feel are usually very different things.
✅ We aren’t good at explaining where our emotions come from.
✅ Sympathy is the acknowledgement of the suffering of others.
✅ Empathy is the … 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