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After well over six months of an incredible effort, Al Jazeera rolled out public beta version of a set of sophisticated tools that allow to compose and publish an entirely new type of content — a scripted interactive chat. The goal of the entire endeavour was to create a more engaging and inclusive storytelling experience around the interview format. We worked… Read More ￫

It’s our third run in General Assembly. We know the drill. Let’s get straight to business. The Brief Work in a team to identify problems and/or opportunities with an existing mobile application and utilise your knowledge to design a solution. The Team Project Managing/Research: Drew Yu UX Researcher: Nicholas Gwee Product Research & Design: Ivy Huang Tools User research, UX,… Read More ￫

Error messages should point toward a solution, not act as a band-aid. The concept of “embracing failure” is big in the tech industry. Fail fast, fail often! is almost an industry mantra. But there’s an everyday type of failure that doesn’t get much attention in the product development process. That’s right. The humble error message. Why error messages matter We’ve probably… Read More ￫

Tiny Techniques Or, “Why did it take me so long to figure this out?” Tiny Techniques are bitesized design tricks to make you a better, faster designer in Sketch. Sometimes you’ll already be doing it…sometimes we’ll blow your mind. The Problem Symbols are great because they’re reusable elements that you can insert throughout your document, and any time you update them,… Read More ￫

Great products are made by people who care. As teams grow in size, ownership, responsibilities, and individual impact become abstract and blurred. As soon as ownership becomes ambiguous, products lose their opinion and often end up becoming a mediocre mess shaped by countless compromises. This is one of the main challenges large teams face today and in order to better… Read More ￫

There seems to be a lot of sensationalism behind the polarizing idea that you should either be a generalist or a specialist. One side advocates that you have to be doing things their way, all while another side swears by their methods. Somewhere in the middle, there are the designers who seem to be getting by just fine pulling tactics… Read More ￫

Animated means full of life and excitement. Animation adds life to static things. When it comes to software, it’s not just for delight but for solving problems. As human beings we are used to see the world moving around us, and if any piece of software has coherent animations, it feels alive and natural. Tech leaders in the industry are… Read More ￫

As a huge tech fan and someone that works in the industry, I own of a lot of gadgets, especially smartphones. I have devices that run Android, Windows or even Ubuntu Touch, however my daily driver is an iPhone X simply because iOS is by far my favourite operating system to use. It works seamlessly with my Mac and iPad,… Read More ￫

When you look at the performance indicators of the most used apps & websites you’ll systematically see: Daily Active Users How many users interact with your platform everyday? Average Time on Site How long do users stay on your platform? Stickiness or retention ratio How many users return after their first experience? Viral coefficient How many new customers are brought… Read More ￫

One of the marvellous things about UX writing is that you’ll inevitably write yourself into some torturous and impossible-to-fathom linguistic corners. One day, your mind boggles over whether to hyphenate or not hyphenate a lesser-known phrase. The next, you forget what sanity feels like when someone asks you to write microcopy for unknown errors. All the while, you’ll have to… Read More ￫

We’re able to see different colors because of our retina’s innate ability to differentiate frequencies of light waves. Certain colors or shades evoke different sentiments in people. In this post, I want to give a quick introduction to color theory, ways to combine colors, and tools for designing with color — that you as a designer can benefit from to… Read More ￫

I have always been fascinated by the way the human mind works. I am also convinced that being familiar with cognitive sciences is one of the key skills of any designer. To better myself professionally and perhaps to help other people learn something new, I decided to write about the cognitive topics I am interested in. Although the design is… Read More ￫