Should Marketing Designers and Product Designers belong to different teams?
I’ve just joined a SASS company as Head of Design in which I’m leading a team of Product Designers. I learned after a couple weeks that there are also designers under the Marketing team who seem to be treated as pixel pushers for Sales and…
how to contact users of an app to do user research
I want to do a case study on a app but I am feeling bit stuck with the user research. Actually I want to do user research but I can’t really find the users of that app. I tried to contact the users on social media platforms but again no l…
Smart watch notifications when doing maintenance work
I’m looking to improve the notifications experience for a heavy duty smart watch that assists people working on maintenance activities in a factory environment (e.g. the room they are in might be getting too hot).
There’s been some feedbac…
Being part of a product team and a design team at the same time
I joined a new company as a product designer a few months ago now. I’m part of a product team but I’m also part of a design team, and I’m finding some struggles in navigating between those two worlds that have completely different cultures…
What Google Search Shows Us About the Future of Product Design
From the day it launched 21 years ago, Google Search has been a case study in remarkable design. By studying its past and present, we can get a hint at what the future of product design will look like.
How important is it to know the "ideal state" you’re designing towards?
How important is it for UX designers to first take a step back to figure out what that “ideal state” is, before carrying out the incremental improvements? The former will exhaust more time & resources before outputs are p…
How important is it to know the "ideal state" you’re designing towards?
How important is it for UX designers to first take a step back to figure out what that “ideal state” is, before carrying out the incremental improvements? The former will exhaust more time & resources before outputs are p…