Tales of Design & User Experience (ToDUX) #17 ⁂ Dear readers and friends, Let’s talk about pain. Not the metaphorical “growth” kind of pain. But the kind that comes from hour-long wrestling matches with digital products in 2025 that should just work by now—yet, here we are. My latest article in The UX Collective, “It’s incredible… Continue reading UX should be easy by now. So why isn’t it?
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“If It’s Not Tested It Might Be Perfectly Fine”: The Counterintuitive Nature of Not Testing Everything
Tales of Design & User Experience (ToDUX) #15 ⁂ Dear readers & friends, So, you might have noticed by now that “research done wrong in industry” is kind of my pet peeve, and I’m sorry you have to endure that. However, I’m not quite done with the topic yet. My new article in The UX Collective,… Continue reading “If It’s Not Tested It Might Be Perfectly Fine”: The Counterintuitive Nature of Not Testing Everything
On Properly Measuring User Experience
Tales of Design & User Experience (ToDUX) #11 ⁂ Dear readers & friends, The third, and final, article of my series on UX measurement, “Seven heuristics for identifying proper UX instruments and metrics,” has been published on the ACM Interactions blog. It all started with a discussion with a colleague on whether conversion rates are… Continue reading On Properly Measuring User Experience
So, how *can* we measure UX?
Tales of Design & User Experience (ToDUX) #6 ⁂ Dear readers and friends, A new article of mine—“So, How Can We Measure UX?”—has been published in the ACM Interactions blog. It’s part two of a three-part series about the proper quantitative measurement of user experience. #2: So, How Can We Measure UX? This one will… Continue reading So, how *can* we measure UX?
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.
User Experience Is an Elusive Thing, or Conversion Rate & Average Order Value Are Not UX Metrics!
In this article, I review six metrics commonly used to measure UX: conversion rate (CR), average order value (AOV), task success rate, time on task, Net Promoter Score® (NPS), and the System Usability Scale (SUS). CR, AOV, and NPS do not fulfil the definition of a UX metric while task success rate, time on task, and SUS do. Still, none of the metrics (alone) is suitable to reliably measure the UX of a digital product.
“Growth Marketing Considered Harmful” Published in i-com
I'm proud that my article "Growth Marketing Considered Harmful" has been published in the latest issue of i-com ‒ Journal of Interactive Media. Abstract: In today’s e-commerce industry, conversion rate optimization is often considered essentially the same as user experience optimization. In addition, there is a strong focus on quantitative experimentation, which some deem a… Continue reading “Growth Marketing Considered Harmful” Published in i-com
Successful E-commerce Personalization in 3 (Relatively) Easy Steps
An effective personalization strategy should be treated as a design problem with a structured framework of ideation, implementation, and evaluation. Co-creation workshops are used to brainstorm audiences and personalized content based on credible hypotheses, which are then implemented and continuously monitored to assess the performance of the personalization strategy and individual campaigns. A good strategy focuses on UX while helping with achieving business goals.
How to Build and Lead User Experience (UX) Teams
This article presents 9 guidelines for building and leading UX teams. They are based on what I learned from the people who led me as well as my own experience: recruit diverse talent; set up a process (and iterate); involve other teams from the start; be fair; have regular ceremonies; pass on knowledge; have a vision; ask questions (a lot); and make UX visible.
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