All the books I read in 2018: Excellent Sheep 💎; The Design of Everyday Things 💎; The Little Book of Hygge; Spelunky; The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck; Che Guevara; How to become a UX leader; Joy, Inc.; Requiem; QualityLand; & The Road To Prosperity 💎.
Month: May 2020
More Design, More UX … And More Books
I know I was a little negligent of my blog in 2018 and 2019, and I didn't write nearly as much as I would have liked to. But I'm very determined to improve on this again. (As you might have noticed based on the last three articles I published in pretty quick succession before they… Continue reading More Design, More UX … And More Books
Jobs To Be Done in a Nutshell
The theory of Jobs To Be Done explains that too much focus on socio-demographic data and correlations hurts companies. Rather, you have to gain a deeper understanding of your customers, who "hire" your product to help them do certain jobs under certain circumstances. For instance, you don't buy a video game console because you're male and over 30. You hire it to, e.g., do the job "connect with friends".
5 Design Methods I’ve Successfully Applied as a UX Manager at C&A
Depending on the environment you have to navigate, it's not always easy to try and apply all of the awesome design methods that are out there, be it due to daily business or a lack of management buy-in. In this article, I describe 5 methods that I have successfully and effectively applied in C&A's eCommerce department: Design Jams, Storyboards, Crazy 8s, 4×4×4, and Buy a Feature.
What’s a Design System, Design Language, and Design Language System? And what’s the Difference?
Depending on who you ask, a design system and a design language might be the same thing or not. Regardless, the important point here is that both a system and a language go beyond a simple pattern library. They have to include a set of rules and guidelines to give the included components structure and meaning.
2008 – Tales of Design & User Experience 