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UX Vision Before UX Process

Jared suggests stakeholders need a compelling UX vision, a ‘why’, in order to adopt a UX process. All I can say is that, from my humble experience, “it is complicated”.

A few months ago I got a message on LinkedIn. It wasn’t the classic “I applied to a job in your company, please recommend me”, this was a TV producer from Spain asking if I’d be interested in being on a travel TV show. In this show, the host travels...

Tri-Track Agile

Interesting article on how to overcome some of the limitations of the Dual-Track Agile methodology. As a reminder, this is just us, designers, trying to make a developers methodology work for us.

AI Prompts for UX Designers

If you are struggling with how to use ChatGPT for UX Design, the Interaction Design Foundation put together a list of useful prompts for generating ideas, user research, improving designs, and more.

AI Tools for UX Designers

I read somewhere that AI won’t replace designers, but designers who use AI (as a tool) will replace the ones who don’t use it. This field is evolving so quickly and sometimes it’s hard to stay up to date. In this article, Mads Soegaard lists eight of the most useful...

Dual-Track Agile Design

My coworker Kathy Davis explains how they use Dual-Track Agile Design at SketchUp. My team is in the process of adopting this methodology too, and Kathy’s article covers all the basics you need in order to get started.

The 100 Best Books of the 21st Century

So many books and so little time. But a few of these are going to be added to my ‘pending’ list.

Toggle Switches Suck

Adam Silver on why toggle switches suck. I agree, don’t use them.

Indeed's Accessibility Library

Stephanie Hagadorn writes about how the UX team at Indeed made accessibility part of their design process using this Figma library.

Last.fm Scrobbling

Jon Hicks shares a very cool list of apps for the Gen X dudes that still use Last.fm! I’ve been using Codescrobble to share the vinyl records I listen to, and it’s been working great.