On the 12th of February 2002, Donald Rumsfeld, back then Secretary of State of the US, used an until then little known framework to help him in making the case for the invasion of Iraq: the Knowns and Unknowns framework. I think it is fair to say that the reception by the press was mixed: some accused him of playing… Read More ￫
The IDAGIO team officially started working remotely at the beginning of March. The same week I was supposed to run brainstorming sessions, in-person, with people who don’t usually “do brainstorming.” I spoke to the design team the day before the first session to ask, “Can we do this? Is it going to be awkward?” The answer to both of those… Read More ￫
No product or creative process is complete without whiteboarding, it’s a great way to quickly throw together ideas, scribbles and notes in meeting rooms. But what do we do now we’re all working from home? Meet Mixed.io, it brings the classic whiteboard experience to your screen, allowing you to brainstorm in real-time with your team. Mixed now integrates with Marvel!… Read More ￫
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During my time at Etsy, I had the pleasure of watching the design team grow and evolve. When I joined over six years ago, there was just a handful of designers working collectively to support business and customer needs. Today, it is a multi-disciplinary group of Product Designers, Brand Designers, Art Directors, CX Strategists, Information Architects, Copywriters, and Researchers. With… Read More ￫
My design journey started four years ago when I quit my job at a children’s sleep clinic to become a designer. I would read books about UX on my commutes to and from work. Every evening, I would spend 6 to 7 hours taking web development courses and learning what it meant to design. Everything was new and exciting. After… Read More ￫
This article was previously published in UX Collective. For a short period of time I worked on a design system at WebNL, an agency specialised in web design, development and marketing based in the Netherlands. Our design system was aimed at improving the bridge between the design and development of the products we’re making. In this blog I will explain… Read More ￫
A couple of weeks ago we released a great update to our User Testing feature that enabled anyone on your team to quickly start an in-person test session directly from their iOS device. If you mostly conduct remote user testing, moderated or unmoderated, don’t worry we have you covered too! Remote testing is super simple to set up in Marvel,… Read More ￫
Did you know that hundreds of workshops take place around the world each month using Marvel? From schools to enterprises, Marvel is used across every age group. The growth we’ve seen across education has been amazing and initiatives like Design Club have been driving design and prototyping with kids across the UK who will no doubt be the entrepreneurs and… Read More ￫
The other day, I saw a bad prototype. It came up during a design critique. We were going to start user testing that very prototype the next day. I wrote down my notes and mentioned it to the designer. The problems I saw were: Typos. Simple design flaws (different colors for the same hierarchical information). Information that made no sense… Read More ￫
User testing is one of the most powerful tools in the product design process but it’s important to remember that it’s an iterative process, you test and gather results, implement changes then repeat until your participants are completing tasks as you hoped. But how do you make fast decisions on whether your designs and prototypes are even worth iterating on?… Read More ￫
Design thinking as a mindset and work attitude for creative problem solving has become crucial for many activities both in education and advanced training. In this article I will reflect on the added value design thinking brings to education. I believe in education and lifelong learning as being the foundation for all we do in life. However, the way we… Read More ￫