Getting the Job Done: Working with Designers
Those that have managed designers or who have hired one for a freelance project know that not every project goes smoothly. This often isn’t a lack of skills or experience on the designer’s part, but a lack of properly managing the designer’s role in the project. This week’s article provides a few tips for successfully working with designers.
Getting the Job Done: Working with Designers
Those that have managed designers or who have hired one for a freelance project know that not every project goes smoothly. This often isn’t a lack of skills or experience on the designer’s part, but a lack of properly managing the designer’s role in the project. This week’s article provides a few tips for successfully working with designers.
Designing for the New Reality: Getting Rid of Pre-COVID Assumptions
Who would have expected that a global pandemic would have been the stimulus to radically increase the usage of digital spaces we employ every day for socialization, entertainment, work, and especially healthcare. Crises may affect our daily life, but COVID-19 has altered our future and caused new user behaviors and expectations. Unfortunately, bad design is ruling out whole sections of the population from the benefits of technology.
Designing for the New Reality: Getting Rid of Pre-COVID Assumptions
Who would have expected that a global pandemic would have been the stimulus to radically increase the usage of digital spaces we employ every day for socialization, entertainment, work, and especially healthcare. Crises may affect our daily life, but COVID-19 has altered our future and caused new user behaviors and expectations. Unfortunately, bad design is ruling out whole sections of the population from the benefits of technology.
Uncharted Waters: Why It’s Important to Design for Newcomers
As design professionals, we must consider design through various lenses to ensure we design for target audiences. If design relies on users’ mental models formed by their own perceptions and past experiences, are we inherently missing a critical lens? What if an experience is altogether new to a user? What if they’re a first-time user, a “newcomer”. A design lens can work as a mental device for thinking about your design in a different way. It focuses attention on a single design principle, illuminating issues that may have been invisible before.
Uncharted Waters: Why It’s Important to Design for Newcomers
As design professionals, we must consider design through various lenses to ensure we design for target audiences. If design relies on users’ mental models formed by their own perceptions and past experiences, are we inherently missing a critical lens? What if an experience is altogether new to a user? What if they’re a first-time user, a “newcomer”. A design lens can work as a mental device for thinking about your design in a different way. It focuses attention on a single design principle, illuminating issues that may have been invisible before.
Uncharted Waters: Why It’s Important to Design for Newcomers
As design professionals, we must consider design through various lenses to ensure we design for target audiences. If design relies on users’ mental models formed by their own perceptions and past experiences, are we inherently missing a critical lens? What if an experience is altogether new to a user? What if they’re a first-time user, a “newcomer”. A design lens can work as a mental device for thinking about your design in a different way. It focuses attention on a single design principle, illuminating issues that may have been invisible before.
Quarantine UX: The “New Normal”
The digital revolution has been brewing for years, but the pandemic has hastened the change. According to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, “We’ve seen two years’ worth of digital transformation in two months.” Changing their approach to user experience (UX) is key to a business’s ability not just to survive but thrive in the new normal. […]
Designing for Change with the Knoster Model
Every experience we have changes us. Every experience we design changes others. Change is inevitable and unavoidable. If this is true, why do people hate or fear change? Designers need a reliable, proven method to create and communicate desirable change for end users and business. We need an effective way to show how much gain they will get while we minimize their pain. Mike Donahue, Sr. UX Designer at DICK’s Sporting Goods helps us to understand how the Knoster Model for Managing Complex Change helps UX designers do just this.
3 Tactical Steps to Become a Design-Integrated Business
The team at Limina surveyed more than 100 design and user experience (UX) decision-makers across a variety of sectors to find out how they view design and UX, and what role it plays in their company’s success. This quantitative research was supported by phone interviews with design and UX leaders from recognized brands including Google, MicroStrategy, ADP, Geico, Capital One and Atlassian. This article highlights key findings and recommendations from Limina’s research report, “The 2020 Design-Integration Report: 6 Best Practices to Build Design-Integrated Businesses that Win.”