Increasing UX maturity of an organization
I was asked by my boss to implement the UX practice in our organization and our UX maturity is like 2/10. It is a 70 years old financial organization with lot of departments and many of them got their own UX departments and designers. It w…
How to be UX Researcher supporting an open source project with differing user objectives?
I’ve seen other questions about user testing or contributing UI to open source projects- I’m curious if anyone has done UX Research for open source tools. I’d like to get better embedded in their github processes and help them engage with …
The Role of The Scientific Method & Intuition in UX
The scientific method is one of the more widely understood processes of obtaining evidence-based subject matter knowledge. It is a process of carefully and systematically collecting and evaluating empirical evidence to test ideas and answer questions. All of us at some point have felt that “AH-HA!” or the “eureka!” moment of sudden revelation or that “gut feeling” in a confusing or unsound situation. As UX professionals and decision-makers, it is important to note that the user experience is inseparable from the larger human experience and exercising scientific intuition becomes exceedingly important as we navigate the complex and evolving world around us.
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.
How to Run Meetings that Don’t Suck
Meetings are critical to the design process. It’s a shame they often suck. Fortunately, designers have the expertise to run engaging meetings with solid outcomes, and author Mike Jongbloet shows us how.
Every Week is a Design Sprint
David Pazstor’s team at UX Studio was doing design sprints before they were cool. In this article he shares what they’ve learned so far, how they’ve adapted the original idea of design sprints to their team, and some ideas about adopting design sprints to continuous development.
Content Strategy Needs Content Strategists
Even when content strategy is given priority in design, hiring content strategists is too often not. Yet someone needs to be responsible for determining not only what content needs to be created, but also how it is created and produced and published! This week, author and content strategist Carrie Hane guides us in the many ways a content strategist can improve the design process.
How Cultural Relativism Influences Design Decisions
Cultural relativism is the understanding that a person’s behaviors and activities should be interpreted in the context of their own culture. Author and IA Summit speaker Ramya Mahalingam explains why it matters, and how it impacts UX.
How Creating A Design Language Can Streamline Your UX Design Process
Around a year ago, while working at a digital agency, I was given the objective of streamlining our UX design process. Twelve months later, this article …