e05 Teams of T-shaped designers
Product design teams are more effective and produce higher quality output if they have deep expertise in each design discipline, while they also need general...
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e04 Writing great job ads
The hiring process needs to be a designed experience, and job ads are the first touchpoints for potential candidates. A great job ad should be human-centered...
e03 Structuring research notes
Taking notes on user research sessions should go beyond asking observers to write down everything they see. Structuring notes drive impact beyond a single se...
e02 Brag doc - Keeping track of wins
Brag doc, a running list of what has gone well, is a great practice for designers to reflect and keep track of learnings and wins. It also helps managers to ...
e01 Design critique - a core practice for design teams
Design critique is not only a basic method for designers to get feedback and improve the quality of their work, but also a core practice for design teams to ...
Newsletter on Design Leadership
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...
Welcome to 9am26
I’m glad you’ve subscribed to my newsletter on design leadership! I hope you find something worthwhile in each issue that helps you in your daily practice.
UX Coffee Hours FAQ
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...
My knowledge workflow 2021
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’...
Personas are for aggregation or for alignment
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...
Design is business
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 ...
#stretchcon 2020 impressions
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...
Designing the Growth Path for UX Leaders and UX Managers
My notes from Jared Spool’s talk “Designing the Growth Path for UX Leaders and UX Managers”.
Plan to learn — on well designed research plans
Well designed research plans in qualitative user research help to successfully learn about users
Designing AI products
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...
Making sure your UX home assignment hits the mark
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 ...
Tipping is sexy
Showing tip amount examples guides how much tip people give
The 4x4 Mini-Design Brief
A quick method to build a creative brief for small projects
Why Doing Design Research is Imperative
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...
UX Quotes to the Rescue
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...
Designing for Mobile Engagement
Enhancing apps with messaging
Design Camp Adventures
Things learned at the IxD ’16 Camp
Drawing Houses
User Story Mapping at Emarsys
Clashing Design Principles to Annoy You
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...
How Might We — Hogyan tudhatnánk
(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.)
From design to product design
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 Designing How We Design — Kim Goodwin
#watchlearn is series of sessions of the Emarsys UX team watching a talk, discussing it, and publishing their notes about it.
About Ford’s faster horses
There is an often told quote attributed to Henry Ford, in product development:
#stretchcon 2015 impressions
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...