Design Thoughts

Creating your screens in grayscale before adding color forces you think clearly and prioritize right when it comes to UX design. 1. You focus on layout and spacing When you start designing keeping the B&W color palette constraint in mind, most of your thinking time goes into figuring out how to space things right to be able to seem like things… Read More ￫

Introducing the Pivotal Research Iteration. It’s a Trello template to help you plan, collaborate, and stay organized no matter what type of user research you’re doing this week. What is a Pivotal Research Iteration? As a designer at Pivotal Labs, I treat every week of research as a new opportunity to iterate, to learn something new from real people and apply… Read More ￫

“Unseen research is wasted research” — Gregg Bernstein. As user researchers, we’re a lucky bunch. Every day, we get to be at the forefront of the many unique and wonderful moments that occur during our user research sessions. The delight, the frustration, the a-ha moments, the uncertainty. Everything that makes us uniquely human. It’s deeply satisfying leaving a research session… Read More ￫

This month’s post is a compilation of what Marvel’s designer and developer, Yav, found inspiring this month in design. Webflow The design tools space is changing before our very eyes and it’s companies like Webflow that rise the bar with every release. The no-code-required website builder has been around since 2013, and they keep delivering on the promise of providing… Read More ￫

It doesn’t matter how good you think your product is if your users don’t like it or find it useful. Ignoring the needs and desires of your users is like ignoring your product. The better you know your users, their environment, their needs, and the value they derive from your product, the better you can craft rewarding, satisfying, and engaging… Read More ￫

This essay is taken from an upcoming book by David Travis & Philip Hodgson titled ‘Think Like a UX Researcher’. You can find out more about the book here. It’s fashionable to blame poor usability on firms not doing enough customer research. On the face of it, this seems like the obvious cause of poor usability. If firms only did… Read More ￫

We’re excited to launch the first in a series of Workshop Kits, that will help you run your own hands-on sessions using popular design methodologies, together with Marvel! Thousands of companies and educational institutions around the world use Marvel in workshops every year. It’s massively inspiring to see the likes of Laboratoria, Design Museum and initiatives like Design Club lead… Read More ￫

The relevance of UX design in industries is important to note because it shows businesses are starting to intentionally center their products around people. What we might not have realized before and what good UX design aims to accomplish is in order to create good products, we need to understand people. Bad design often results in a lack of empathy… Read More ￫

Originally published on JOTFORM.COM Cozy. That’s how I felt. Tucked beneath what may have been the world’s softest blanket. I took a deep breath and rolled onto my side. It was a familiar moment — the moment when my 6 a.m. alarm clock sounded, after a night of tossing and turning. The moment when my daily responsibilities had yet to… Read More ￫

Header image: Copyright MSTQ, Inc. Open Instagram, Airbnb, Apple Music, Twitter, Dropbox or Lyft and at first glance it might feel like it’s hard to tell the difference between which app is which: big, bold headlines with rounded sans-serif fonts; minimal black and white interfaces with lots of negative space; little to no color. The modern interface style feels so bare-bones…. Read More ￫

Design systems, design systems everywhere. I’m pretty sure that you have heard that term a thousand times last week, and more than you will, design system is one of the trends in product design particularly, that big companies such as Airbnb, Uber, Lyft, and others are adapting and putting into practice when building their products and seems that has come… Read More ￫

Digital interfaces make a huge impact in our lives. We frequently use websites or digital applications to accomplish certain goals. Indeed, when interacting with an interface, we are surrounded by typography and our experience is driven by the words and messages we read and understand. In one of his articles, Oliver Reichenstein confirms the importance of typography in all websites… Read More ￫