Design sprints were incubated by Jake Knapp during his tenure at Google and itâs starting to create serious buzz in board rooms and corner offices. Hereâs what all business executives need to know about it⌠Moving at the speed of a startup If youâre like most business executives in larger companies, you probably keep an eye on the startups in your… Read More ￫
Apple recently announced the latest iteration of the iPhone â the iPhone X. Alongside the usual incremental improvements that most of us are now largely indifferent to, the arrival of iOS 11 does deliver something more significant: a mainstream, mass-market mobile product that for the first time has an Augmented Reality (AR) engine baked right into the OS. Read on… Read More ￫
Sprints are all the rage, but beware the snake-oil! This is what I learnt by taking part in a modified design sprint, run by people with incomplete understanding of the Google Ventures Design Sprint process. Jake Knapp describes Design Sprints as a greatest hits of productivity, decision making, innovation, creativity, and design â and I think thatâs true. But I… Read More ￫
How to design for your iPhone X to create a full-screen experience for your users including best practices.
This post looks at 4 popular design methodologies and how they improve collaboration with agile development teams.
Collaboration between designers and developers is essential for creating great products. Every company has different organizational structures for designers and developers. Some companies have designers and developers on two separate teams. Those development teams may also break up developers in sub-teams as well. For example, they may separate by front-end developers and back-end developers. In other companies, designers and developers… Read More ￫
Between 2012 and 2017, weâve seen the biggest tech companies in the world hire thousands of designers to push the value of design through their organisations. For example, IBM has gone from just 1 designer to every 72 engineers, to a ratio of 1 in 8. Intercom lead the way in terms of numbers, with 1 designer to every 5… Read More ￫
Great! Youâve got your design brief, areas of interest you want to look into, and some user interviews lined up. But whatâs next? This article provides you with hands-on advice on why and how to conduct user interviews in your UX process. Some of the recommendations you are going to read might seem trivial and obvious but neglecting only one… Read More ￫
Do you often hear the word âempathyâ at work? Do you find that it gets thrown around too much in the world of design? Do you know what it means? Would you like to be able to improve your empathy and become a better designer in the process? During my time as a designer, Iâve heard the word empathy a… Read More ￫
Crafting a good experience is like telling a good story Stories are core to various activities, tools and methods applied in UX. Stories are how we remember. We tend to forget bullet points (Robert McKee on HBR). Bullet points make as little of a good story as multiple isolated touch-points donât make a good overall experience of a product or service. In… Read More ￫
When I started AJ&Smart in 2011, UX Design was still so misunderstood that I spent the next 3 years just explaining to my clients (while also defining it to myself) what it actually was and why it was valuable. It was also extremely difficult to hire good UX designers, as there was nowhere to really learn what was required for… Read More ￫
Did you read that Sidebar article about UX Writing? Did you see the new augmented reality software that Apple created? Have you seen Androidâs new design pattern? Did you see the latest Google I/O talks? Have you read âHookedâ ? You been on Dribbble lately? Did you complete that online UI course with Design Labs? Did you see the latest intercom… Read More ￫