Nothing comes close to the negative impact on the morale and effectiveness of your designers than this one word you should ban from your office.
#ItsNotAboutYou
“Arrogance and fear still keep you from learning the simplest and most significant lesson of all,” Ancient One tells Dr. Strange. “It’s not about you.” Let me break this down into four key lessons that this particular arrogant and fearful fool had to learn the hard way.
How to Pick the Right Framework for your Chatbot or Virtual Assistant Project
There has never been a more exciting time to be a part of a team designing and building digital products! As an example, here are just a few of the projects that I was involved with last year: ● A Slack bot that serves up cloud application and network performance alerts and graphs, and provides proactive …
Lean UX is Simple
Lean UX Design Process in a nutshell: 1. Feel the pain 2. Brainstorm together 3. Prototype cheaply 4. Iterate quickly 5. Try it in real world 6. Repeat steps #2-5 until #1 is eliminated I got tired of how poorly the phone holder was working, so I made my own from leftover household materials in about 20 minutes, after 4 quick …
How to Name Your Chatbot: GUPPI, Samantha, Alexa, Siri, and HAL 9000
In his brilliant Bobiverse trilogy, Dennis E. Taylor writes about Bob, a Silicon Valley CEO, whose brain is scanned into a computer and becomes the AI in an interstellar spaceship. GUPPI (General Unit Primary Peripheral Interface) is virtual Bob’s virtual assistant. GUPPI has limited intelligence, on a par with Siri or Alexa of our own post-industrial age, …
Should I have a separate mobile website or one website that is responsive to all screen sizes?
This is a common question many of my clients and students ask me. The simple answer is that the baseline is a responsive website, especially if you are in the marketing and content distribution business. However, the truth is a bit more complicated, because: Today’s web landscape is sophisticated enough that no one strategy fits all scenarios. …
How to Draw an Effective Storyboard: UX Design Project, DesignOps Workshop, Web, Mobile, or Wearable Product Design
Video: 36-minute free segment of O’Reilly Video Course. Covers all of the essential parts of the storyboard: Things, People, Faces, Opening Slide, and Transitions. Expert hands-on guided exercises provide step-by-step instruction in basic drawing skills. The module also covers advanced topics like poses and camera angles for students who are ready to move to the …
Effective Sketching for UX Design: New O’Reilly Video Course
30 Minute video: Parts of a Storyboard is currently available to view FREE, for a limited time. I’m proud to present our new video course from O’Reilly Media: Effective Sketching for UX Design Written and presented by UX design expert Greg Nudelman (clients include Oracle, Cisco, and eBay) and Emmy-nominated graphic designer Will Krause (Sesame …
8 Mobile UX Trends You Can’t Afford to Ignore
Here are the top trends in the mobile UX industry. Without further ado, here’s our count-down to #1. #8 Mobile First: Responsive Web Design Responsive Web Design or RWD has been a dominant trend in web industry for several years now. We predict that this will continue to be the case. RWD will be the …
Visual Guide to Android L Material Design: 7 Insights Every Serious Designer Needs to Know
Material Design is a new Google design language that Google hopes to port to everything from mobile phones and tablets to websites and desktop apps. Here are 7 hard-won insights from 4 Material Design workshops I recently facilitated with my top clients in Argentina, Abu Dhabi and United States.