UX / Product Design

10 ideas I’ve learned from Thinking Fast and Slow

To be a good designer, you must enhance your inner artist and showcase it in your proposals through emotional and visual design to connect and infuse soul into your proposals.

People claim to want unconventional solutions, but really, what they want is a sure thing that feels familiar

Don Norman explains gaps in human-centered design, throws shade at Apple, and believes we will save the world.

Bias and assumptions in user research refer to the ways our thinking can sometimes be influenced without us even realizing it. It means we…

Sometimes, as a product designer, I often remind myself to get into the habit of reflection… Is the design of a well-known company always…

Pablo Picasso's The Bull is a series of eleven lithographs created in 1945. It depicts the bull at various stages of abstraction.

Learning from Picasso's bull to avoid empty minimalism

Can design be used to drive superior returns in private equity?

… and how we should think about it.

The real value of design doesn’t come from building better products. It comes from creating better product-building methods.

Introduction

After two years in the industry, I’ve learned a valuable lesson: while designers thrive on diving straight into Figma or FigJam to craft…

With AI poised to manage complex design jobs, the appeal of simpler times grows stronger.

Is there room for creativity in a field where following the standard is the hallmark of good design?

In order to move beyond duplicated design systems, app-centric interfaces, and thousands of wasted hours of manual work, some things need…

The ultimate goal of product design has to be well-being — not delight.

In the dynamic world of UI design, staying ahead of the curve is crucial. As we delve into 2024, exciting trends are emerging, reshaping…

Continual rounds of layoffs, the emergence of advanced technology, and the proliferation of designers everywhere are forcing UX to…

When fast onboarding gets in the way of long-term retention.

Lessons from Figma, Duolingo, and more. From common mistakes in designing onboarding to secrets behind engaging onboarding.

Discover why 'good enough' beats perfection in design – a practical, efficient approach for meeting user needs and goals.

How creating a design council can take your sponsor user program to the next level.

Data is overshadowing emotion. Does it have to?

Designers are the right innovators for defining hybrid AI experiences, blending proactive and reactive intelligence

Traditional methods for accessibility have been tried for 30 years without substantially improving computer usability for disabled users. It’s time for a change, and AI will soon come to the rescue with the ability to generate a different user interface for every user, optimized for that person’s unique needs.

It hardly seems possible given the radical transformations we’ve seen over the last few decades, but the web design landscape is evolving faster than ever.

"Accessibility has failed as a way to make computers usable for disabled users." Thus begins a newsletter by Jakob Nielsen. And had it not been written by someone a great many people take seriously in the UX industry I likely would just have dismissed it. But seeing how harmful I

Adam Silver – interaction designer - London, UK