Tales of Design & User Experience (ToDUX) #10 ⁂ Dear readers & friends, I took a little summer break, but have recently gotten back to writing articles. My latest piece “Designing together: the importance of shared principles for design teams” has been published by The UX Collective. It’s the fourth in what will be a series… Continue reading Design Principles, Why They’re Important, and How They Relate to Team Values
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A Very Short History of Product Management & Stewart Brand’s “Access to Tools” Philosophy
Tales of Design & User Experience (ToDUX) #9 ⁂ Dear readers and friends, I hope this issue find you well. In today’s newsletter, I want to focus on two things: A new article about product management. Stewart Brand’s “Access to Tools” philosophy and how I want to use it for this newsletter in the future.… Continue reading A Very Short History of Product Management & Stewart Brand’s “Access to Tools” Philosophy
How To: Design Team Strategy
Tales of Design & User Experience (ToDUX) #8 ⁂ Dear readers and friends, I hope this newsletter finds you well. I’m excited to share two new articles I’ve published since the last edition and hope you’ll find them interesting and useful. Design Team Strategy I’ve started writing a series on how to develop a comprehensive… Continue reading How To: Design Team Strategy
New Year, New Updates
Tales of Design & User Experience (ToDUX) #7 ⁂ Happy New Year, readers and friends! 🎆 As we begin another year, I wanted to take a moment to welcome any new subscribers who are receiving this newsletter for the first time. I'm excited to have you join our community of design and user experience enthusiasts.… Continue reading New Year, New Updates
ROIs and Poetry ✍🏻
Tales of Design & User Experience (ToDUX) #5 ⁂ Dear readers and friends, ¿Cómo estáis? ☀️ I’ve waited a little with this issue of the newsletter because I wanted to aggregate some content for you first. Mainly, there are two new articles that have been published recently. One is about calculating the ROI of any… Continue reading ROIs and Poetry ✍🏻
AI Will Be a Thing in Design and Research, but There Are Some Issues to Resolve First
To what extent do digital designers and user researchers in industry make use of AI-powered systems to support their work? The answer seems to be “not much,” as we found in a survey with 34 practitioners. In general, there seems to be little awareness of the specific advantages AI can bring to a design process and which tools are already out there, despite significant issues with existing processes that could be well mitigated with the help of AI. However, designers and researchers are very open to the topic and would appreciate AI-powered systems to support them in both ideation and evaluation. Providing practitioners with such systems that are easily accessible and demonstrate added value holds great opportunities.
There is such a thing as too much data
Tales of Design & User Experience (ToDUX) #4 ⁂ Dear readers and friends, I hope you’re all doing good. 😊 I have a two new pieces, both of which have been published in the UX Collective. The first one—“Listen to users, but only 85% of the time”—investigates why it’s not in the best interest of… Continue reading There is such a thing as too much data
Semantics *do* matter
Tales of Design & User Experience (ToDUX) #3 ⁂ Dear readers, Greetings from Barcelona! 👋🏻 I have a new piece on the differences between UX, Digital Product Design, and UX that has been published on my blog as well as on uxdesign.cc. UX vs. Product Design vs. UI Why did I write yet another article… Continue reading Semantics *do* matter
UX vs. Product Design vs. UI: The Never-Ending Battle
Digital product design teams are often referred to as “the UX team” or “the UX/UI team,” which are terminologies that can significantly disturb a proper understanding of what UX and digital product design actually are and what a digital product design team does. For one, the user’s experience can’t be designed in the first place, and “doing UX” goes way beyond the scope of digital product design. For another, saying “UX/UI” isn’t meaningful since they’re neither the same nor separable concepts within a process; one can’t “do UI” without also “doing UX.” Generally speaking, digital product design covers design research, interaction design, and visual design, and it’s a much more accurate term for what’s commonly referred to as “UX” or “UX/UI.” We believe a proper understanding of terminology is essential for being able to deliver one’s best possible work as a designer.
Vamos a Barcelona 🏖️
Tales of Design & User Experience (ToDUX) #2 ⁂ Dear Subscribers, this is the first newsletter sent from my new home, which is indeed Barcelona 🏖️, and I wanna use it to update you on a couple of things. We still need to get rid of significance in A/B testing First of all, my piece… Continue reading Vamos a Barcelona 🏖️
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