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Making a design, writing, and any thing else creative always involves a shitty first draft. Making use of a shitty first draft involves getting all of your ideas down in one sitting and not editing as you go. This allows you to get the initial design done quicker and getting all the idea down withoutContinue reading “Shitty First Drafts of Design”

NPS, or Net Promoter Score, uses a voluntary survey to gather data about whether a user would recommend and highly rate a company or not. This is not a great way to measure this data as it involves voluntary contribution. An example is 30% of respondees are passive, 30% are promoters, and 40% are detractors.Continue reading “Is NPS an Accurate Way to Measure User Experience?”

When making a design system it’s important to keep your users needs in mind. Make the design easy to use. A design system will fail if it does not have features useful to the user or it is not easy to use. Of course it can also fail when something better comes along, but itContinue reading “Why do Design Systems Fail?”

Change is a constant in the world of UX design. Designers teams, audience, design systems, and more constantly change. There are very few things that don’t change for designers such as design fundamentals and collaboration. There are some foundational design principals that will always remain the same. Communication and collaboration will always be important. TheseContinue reading “The Ever Changing World of UX Design”

Precise design is appealing to the eye. When a design is off-centered we can subconsciously tell that something is wrong with the design. For some people this can be rather annoying to come across. Using lego blocks as an example for design, if a rocket is built and a window is placed in an off-centerContinue reading “Why Precise Design Matters!”

It depends. When we talk about code-blended design it makes sense for designers to know how to code. Code-blended design is a mix of designing with a graphic user interface (GUI) and with a text/code editor. This allows for the designer to interact with a file with their traditional design tools and to interact withContinue reading “Should Designers Learn to Code?”

The three main questions any UX designer must ask themselves are why, what and how. Why am I making this? What are the features and functionality? How should it work and appear? Questions like these are at the core of UX design. Without thinking about these things it is nearly impossible to create a goodContinue reading “Why? What? How?”

UX designers utilize skills in wireframing, prototyping and interpreting data and feedback among other skills. They are responsible for being the middle men/women between the end user and the development team. The UX designer communicates with the development team to develop a final product that will be user friendly. Such products that a UX designerContinue reading “What does a UX Designer do?”

When cyber security professionals are designing new security solutions they must keep in mind user experience (UX) design. For example, two factor authentication (2FA) won’t be used by users if it is not user friendly. When cyber security professionals decide to incorporate 2FA they must incorporate it in a user friendly way otherwise the usersContinue reading “Cyber Security Professionals and UX Design”