Design is a vaguely defined term, and people tend to have misconceptions about what designers do. When you tell people you’re a designer, especially those outside of tech, chances are they will think that your job is to sit in front of a monitor, pushing pixels and make things look beautiful.
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3 Ways to Get Survey Respondents for User Research
Surveys are a great way for us to understand our target users during the discovery phase of a UX project. Using just a Google form or Microsoft form, we can reach out to potential users, asking them questions without being constrained by time or location. Oftentimes, the hard part of conducting a survey is getting respondents. Below are 3 ways to do that.
Continue readingLearnings from Reading UX Strategy: How to Devise Innovative Digital Products that People Want
UX can mean a lot of things and has many moving parts such as interaction design, visual design and user research. Two UX practitioners can be doing wildly different things even if they are working on the same project inside the same company. UX strategy is a term I came across a few years ago, but I had never taken the time to investigate. The book UX Strategy: How to Devise Innovative Digital Products that People Want written by Jaime Levy demystifies the strategy part of UX. Reading it gave me a lot of clarity.
Continue readingMy Top 3 Apps During Social Distancing
When practicing social distancing, we are more likely to feel bored or stressed. I’ve been working from home for almost 2 months, and I found the following 3 apps really useful in helping me stay grounded and healthy. As a designer, from a product design point of view, I think they all have successfully achieved their value propositions.
Continue readingFree Condensed Gothic Typeface: Gothic Kaiping
Gothic Kaiping is a condensed gothic display typeface with bold strokes. It is designed to be used in large font sizes in titles.
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