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What Royal Mail teaches us about optimising for trust, not perfection. Continue reading on UX Collective » A man presents a woman with pie. She’s ecstatic! Pies fill the kitchen and cover the floor. Credit: My own human hands and brain I work at Cisco. Recently, several business groups have been merged into a larger organization, […]

How UX designers can use AI app builders to their advantage As AI continues to disrupt many industries (particularly software development), it’s critical to continue to stay up-to-date with new tools that change traditional processes–making them more efficient and opening opportunities to more people. UX designers have historically been constrained to creating high-fidelity wireframes or limited […]

Lessons on strength from old-growth pines Years ago, when my wife and I were looking at our house, we had a home inspector out before making the purchase. One of the things they pointed out was the lumber used in its framing. The house was built in the early 60s, primarily with pine. But it […]

Why design’s most human contribution is now its most strategic advantage Photo by vackground.com on Unsplash The shift that’s already happening More and more, our tools are designing with us, or for us. OpenAI is now building an AI software engineer, capable of doing everything a human developer does — from planning and writing code to testing it and […]

Let’s talk about the real cost of UX design beyond the numbers and into what actually matters Photo by Jakub Żerdzicki on Unsplash After years of UX design work, I’ve learned something interesting: it’s not always about the user. Sure, desirability is crucial for end-customer products, but when you’re dealing with business-to-business tools, internal systems, or complex […]

Let’s talk about the real cost of UX design beyond the numbers and into what actually matters Photo by Jakub Żerdzicki on Unsplash After years of UX design work, I’ve learned something interesting: it’s not always about the user. Sure, desirability is crucial for end-customer products, but when you’re dealing with business-to-business tools, internal systems, or complex […]

Let’s talk about the real cost of UX design beyond the numbers and into what actually matters Photo by Jakub Żerdzicki on Unsplash After years of UX design work, I’ve learned something interesting: it’s not always about the user. Sure, desirability is crucial for end-customer products, but when you’re dealing with business-to-business tools, internal systems, or complex […]

AI portraiture and the crisis of the profile picture in an era where identity is easily exploited and monetized by the viral Ghibli AI art Continue reading on UX Collective » How to help a product introduce itself. Digital product design is about teaching users what to do. This is the interface. Here’s how it […]

How to help a product introduce itself. Digital product design is about teaching users what to do. This is the interface. Here’s how it works. Go over there and you’ll find what you’re looking for. It happens right from the beginning. The first screen of any product will set expectations and introduce interaction patterns. A combination […]

Because typing “award-winning concept art” isn’t the same as making it Continue reading on UX Collective » Rediscovering the heart, humanity, and intuition behind how great design was done and how could we claim that back. I know, yet another take on all the takes already floating around (I’m talking about the conversation that started with […]