Product Design

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It’s About More than Pixels: Redefining “Designer”

Business professionals of a “certain vintage” have a tendency to misunderstand the role of design. They’ve looked at designers as disposable or simply nice to have. But now, digital transformation is pushing…

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compassofdesign.com

Is It Better for a Designer to Be a Generalist or Specialist?

Jack of all trades. Master of what, exactly? When you start to focus on growing your skills, you poke around and borrow styles from all over the place. Borrowing ideas as a…

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intercom.com

GV’s Michael Margolis on User Research for Startups

As perhaps the only UX researcher on staff at a VC fund, Michael Margolis is parachuting into startups year-round to help them better understand their users. Following several years as a user…

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darrinhenein.com

Practical Design Critique – How to Give and Receive Feedback

Like many designers, I started my career as a freelance consultant, doing primarily contract work for a small handful of clients. I’m going to come back to this fact shortly, but for…

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How to Build Lovable Products – 3 Steps for Having a Big Impact

Building digital products in the current world is hard. The world is changing at a fast pace. In this world it’s no longer about if you can build it, but if you…

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Probably, Your First Useful Touch Bar App

Working with other companies, we always dreamed of devoting some of our time to the realisation of our own ideas. But commercial projects were always our top priorities, and there wasn’t much…

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Building Block Design: A Modular Design Strategy for UXers

If you hate stories, you should skip this part. It’s about a UX designer who was tasked with championing a modular design strategy for her organization. She has short brown hair and…

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Thoughts on Skeuomorphic Menu Systems

Recently I’ve been playing Splatoon 2, which is a team-based third-person shooter available on the Nintendo Switch. To move between different styles of gameplay, the player must physically move their character in…

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How We Designed Foursquare Swarm 5.0

As a product designer working on Swarm, some of the pieces I specifically worked on for 5.0 included simplifying the information architecture, updating our internal style guide, redesigning the home screen and…

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Do You Want to Design Better?

Over the past couple of years we’ve noticed a significant shift in design teams — they’re scaling quickly as companies recognize the strategic advantage design brings. With scale comes many challenges like refining process,…

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prototypr.io

Mixing Different Mindsets to Build Better Products

The best thing about working inside agencies creative teams is the diversity of work and people that you have the opportunity to undergo in a short period. Having experienced both sides and…

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prototypr.io

Design Trends Are Like Cupcake Decorations

In today’s age, design has become centric to a business and its success. From branding, to web, to print. The call for good designers is out there, and competition is fierce. With…

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Don’t Mistake Common UI Patterns for Best Practices

A colleague of mine recently published an article on a new model that he coins the human environment model—an approach to product design that asks us to “blur the line between the…

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Above the Fold Is a Myth

It's not 1997 anymore. — No one famous, July 2017 Further Reading: Everybody Scrolls → There Is No Fold → The myth of the page fold: evidence from user testing → Blasting…

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Designing Digital Products with Mental Models

The best way to get your entire team on the same page about what you are building. The Problem is Translation Years ago while traveling in India I bought an inexpensive English…

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The Ultimate Guide for Mobile Developers, Who Want to Design

As a startup founder, one of the most common questions I’m asked is: How can you do both design, development and business tasks? I’m an iOS & macOS developer at first place.…

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