It's like r/Showerthoughts, but about design…or drawings of Batman
Category: Blog Posts
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Or the use of ambiguous jargon as a method of gatekeeping. I’ve been reading a lot of job descriptions over the last 6 months, and I’ve noticed a shift in language that I find perplexing. First, half of everyone uses the term Product Designer to describe the exact same job duties as a User Experience…
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Yesterday was International Left-hander’s Day. Coincidentally, it was also the day I had an online conversation about being left-handed with another UX designer, which made me reflect on how being left-handed prepared me for my life as a UXer.
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Sometime in 2018 I got bored in an interminable series of meetings and started doodling Batman in my notebook. Truth is, this is the first thing I’ve done with every piece of drawing technology that has been handed to me since 1989. I found myself doing it more and more, and eventually, I started posting…
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Are you subtly subverting your own brand by choosing a common Front End Framework? It is often overlooked by proponents of these systems that they are equal parts User Interface Convention and Brand Expression. Although they have benefits, they have costs as well.
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The problem is not that we can’t predict bad behavior online, it’s that we can’t agree on what’s bad.
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This morning, I was chatting with a colleague about a contentious interaction with a stakeholder in which they asserted decision rights over our work. I think I surprised her with my response: “It’s just like working with clients. When it’s your money, and you have to live with the outcomes, you get to make the…
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There is an almost certainly apocryphal proverb that goes something like, “If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together,” and I think of it often when trying to take on large/complex projects, because I see this thinking get a lot of teams in trouble. One of the…
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I really enjoy strategy, but I’m not as good at it as I want to be. I’m pretty bad at chess. I’m awful at Monopoly. I’m even pretty bad at tic tac toe sometimes. Recently I’ve been analyzing my own behavior, and I’ve started to see a pattern. I have a blind spot. I am…
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The site I work on at work gets requests like this pretty often: “When will you support Internet Explorer [version number way lower than 11]?” And, the answer is, “Never. A very small part of our users use IE[-3], and the cost would be prohibitive.” And their answer to that is typically something like, “Our…
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In the past few years UX has become a big part of the conversation about design and its benefit to business. It had previously been a relatively small corner of the design universe, mostly concerned with how information is organized, how a user gets from Point A to Point B inside your application, and what…