It’s common for designers and web developers to suffer from decision paralysis. You know you’ve battled with it if you had problems like: Spending hours choosing the right typefaces Obsessing over choosing the right framework Scratching your head over what to learn next Facing writer’s block Do any of those sound familiar? Decision paralysis has been the bane of my… Read More ￫

This is a resource guide to complement the ‘Intro to UX Design’ course run by IF Academy. Visit their website for upcoming course dates. Also see Part 2 (Agile & Lean UX), Part 3 (UX Research) or the full Table of Contents. In this article we cover: What is a good user experience design? The need to balance business, user and… Read More ￫

This will be the first post of series of articles I will be writing on design principles. The idea is to share my perspective on timeless design principles that can be applicable across many mediums and contexts. It is aimed mainly at new designers and designers like me who tend to forget this stuff, and need a refresher. I have… Read More ￫

This guide will cover what you need to know about wireframes, why and how you should use them in your workflow.

Google launched Android Lollipop which introduced some major changes and a new visual language called Material Design. With this new OS, Android is bringing a comprehensive guide for visual, motion, and interaction design across platforms and devices. Last October, I attended a workshop hosted at Google where Material Design’s UX team shared insights on this new approach to Android’s design… Read More ￫

As a designer, your toolbox empowers you to do research, define personas, explore UX patterns, lo-fi sketch, and even refine what agile design means. It’s time to apply these skills to the one product that needs it most – yourself. Before you embrace this concept, let’s paint a picture. You’re a design consultant and you’ve been hired to lead the… Read More ￫

This is a story about a GV style design sprint. If you’ve never heard of this, you can learn more here. Europe’s leading smart thermostat platform Toon® just opened up its API on toonapi.com. Toon is now accessible to developers, designers, startups, corporates and universities to re-imagine smart home and energy solutions. With this community, Toon wants to create smart… Read More ￫

In November 2016 I found myself leaving a really truly great experience design team at a solid software company to go onto… nothing. Happily for me, marriage took me to a different town which then made me look at the prospect of a new job, new team, new design challenges and purpose. Leaving a decent job and great team made me… Read More ￫

The virtual realm is uncharted territory for many designers. In the last few years, we’ve witnessed an explosion in virtual reality (VR) hardware and applications. VR experiences range from the mundane to the wondrous, their complexity and utility varying greatly. “You don’t need to be an expert in VR; you just need to be willing to apply your skills to… Read More ￫

Pretty much any time we design something new, we start at the middle. See, the middle is when someone has a problem—she’s bored, she has a question, she needs to get somewhere, she wants to buy something— and voila! She whips out this New Thing we’ve designed, goes through this amazing experience we’ve crafted, and merrily solves her problem. Happy… Read More ￫

When I started as a designer, fresh out of school, I thought I was ready to be a real professional. I would be creating elegant interfaces that would delight users and solve their problems. At least I thought I would. Those years in school taught me a lot. Research, project planning, teamwork, prototyping. Buckets of theory about devices and interfaces,… Read More ￫

Imagine a world where we’d know the impact that an experience would have before we shipped it. This is not as impossible as it sounds, and most product companies are or have been building experiences this way for a few years now. Popularised by e-commerce sites and lean startups, validating design decisions by A/B testing and hard data is commonplace… Read More ￫