e46 Personas are meant to be used, not just created
Personas are a widely used method, as they are seemingly easy to create and fit well into the image of a standardized design process. But as with any other t...
Greg Bernstein in Making research more durable:
Christopher K Wong in Why you shouldn’t be too eager to share your work:
A key idea in product design is to make things easier and simpler as much as possible so people are faster at whatever they are doing, with the assumption th...
A constant thing with creating new software seems the tendency to automate things people can do easily while leaving the more complicated stuff for people to...
I’ve been an Evernote user for more than 10 years, but finally decided to switch away from it. I started to use Joplin, an open-source note-taking app a coup...
This is the second post in a series that Greg and I are publishing on the strategic role of UX in product development and how PMs and UX professionals can de...
Senior designers and even design leaders are often asked to go more strategic. Makes sense, that’s what more experienced people do to increase their impact a...
Digital design is still in its storming phase, that’s why we have so many posts, debates, and comments on naming, terminology, etc. Part of it is philosophic...
I’m starting a (bi)weekly newsletter on design leadership called 9am26. Looking around the interwebs these days there are more and more good articles on lead...
I’ve been part of the UX Coffee Hours for the past 1.5 years, meeting UX researchers every week for a chat, mostly mentoring people starting out in their car...
This is my current knowledge workflow as of beginning of 2021. I write these both to document my current practice, and also to clearly set what guidelines I’...
Had a chat with a researcher this week, and one of the topics we discussed was how to use personas in a design process. We ended up talking a lot on why thei...
Was on a meetup today, and one of the questions asked from the presenter was “What’s the relationship between business and design at your company”. Ofcourse ...
Last week I attended the Strech conference 2020 online. I found over the years that the individual talks themselves don’t give that much useful insights, but...
My notes from Jared Spool’s talk “Designing the Growth Path for UX Leaders and UX Managers”.
Well designed research plans in qualitative user research help to successfully learn about users
This story is based on the talk I recently gave on the UX Budapest Meetup featuring AI topics. Here is my prezi from the event. I’ve added more links and mor...
We assess UX designers’ and researchers’ professional skills with a homework during our hiring process. While we set up our interviews to get a nice picture ...
Showing tip amount examples guides how much tip people give
A quick method to build a creative brief for small projects
I was teaching designers this week, and it struck me: people don’t question the need of doing research any more. There used to be a few confident, experience...
I seem to followed by quotes on all things UX. They appear in presentations, on Facebook conversations as funny come backs, in discussions about UIs. I get i...
Enhancing apps with messaging
Things learned at the IxD ’16 Camp
User Story Mapping at Emarsys
From time to time I find myself obsessed with broken things, especially physical objects. The ones that leave me in an interrupted, annoyed, confused state w...
(This post is about how to apply the How Might We method in Hungarian, and in a broader sense how language based design methods translate.)
This week I attended a UX Budapest meetup event. Besides the always great networking I liked the talks too, as they offered an interesting insight on how peo...
#watchlearn is series of sessions of the Emarsys UX team watching a talk, discussing it, and publishing their notes about it.
There is an often told quote attributed to Henry Ford, in product development:
I frequently see UX people in a leadership role, even if they are not team leads or managers. They still need to guide their teams or even to change processe...
On design critiques all feedback might be treated as equal, but that’s of course not the case, some points are more important. When doing round-robin, feedba...
Discovery and delivery are not just different phases in the product design process, they also differ from each other in significant ways in terms of what the...
There are multiple types of innovation, technology is one of these, another one is design. Design innovation can relate to many areas of a product, even up t...
A few notes from the Staff design, interviews with high level individual contributor designers by Brian Lovin.
Two chief direction for UX strategy (correlates with the two roles for design leaders, leadership and management):
Theresa Torres describes Opportunity solution trees as a visual way to think about working towards an outcome throughout a discovery process.
Tal Raviv’s article, That’s Not a Hypothesis describes what hypothesis is in the scientific method: something we believe in, a part of the model what we beli...
User research projects vary in scope, where they are on the scale depends on the goal.
Collecting pieces
OKRs (for example from Radical Focus by Christina Wodtke is a good book about it) or similar goal setting techniques usually work well for focusing product t...
Two useful frameworks for design leaders to describe their activities:
To get started as a design leader at a new role a few things to look out for.
I found the term vision a bit confusing when thinking on their role on product development. Possibly since different people understand different things when ...
Garden seems to be an emerging trend in thinking, doing knowledge work. It’s an approach that is described by multiple methodologies or frameworks and all of...
Setting goals
Initial talk
Being accessible is not only a good practice for legal reasons (to avoid getting sued, like the Dominos case, it’s also the right thing to do (being more inc...
About personas
Formulating design principles