Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers. — Since their invention in 1997, user stories have become ubiquitous. The simple format of “as X, I want Y so that I can Z” has helped countless software teams stay focused on the value they provide for their customers. In theory. The truth is: As a user, I don’t want…

Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers. — Researchers widely debate creativity, but they often recognise originality or novelty as one of its key elements. And this originality is a product designer’s super-weapon. A weapon that’s powerful yet elusive. Research shows creativity reduces as we go through life. We fixate on finding ‘the right’ answer (a.k.a convergent thinking)…

Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers. — Modern products often have a large amount of user research data from different sources: user research interviews, intercom conversations, customer e-mails, surveys, customer reviews on various platforms, and whatnot. Making sense of all that data is a challenging task. A traditional way to do that is to maintain a neatly…

Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers. — Science fiction films love to show off huge leaps in technology. The latest Avatar movie features autonomous, spider-like robots that can build a whole city within weeks. There are spaceships that can carry frozen passengers lightyears away from Earth. In James Cameron’s imagination, we can download our memories and then…

Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers. — In the past decade, when looking at the level of individual companies, AI exposure has correlated with reduced hiring. Thanks to AI, firms are not only changing the job requirements for their roles — but they are also hiring less overall. We finally see the effects on “skilled” labor that…

Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers. — “As a 70-year-old who has spent well over 30 years teaching Digital Media, speaking at conferences around the world, and conducting seminars to audiences and classes composed solely of that younger generation, I have been subjected to that last acceptable practice.” Ageism: the last acceptable prejudice → By Tom Green Editor picks …

Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers. — “To survive, UX needs a different type of designers: passionate, informed, well–rounded. UX designers with decades of experience and current bootcamp students should strive to develop a broad mindset, go above and beyond, master and challenge the frameworks, learn and bend the rules. Beyond the realization that design is far…

Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers. — Moses, the so-called “master builder” of mid-20th century New York, was very concerned that white-only spaces in America (like beaches) might eventually be opened to all people. When designing the Grand Central Parkway in the late 1920s — a road intended, in part, to give New Yorkers “an easy way…

A curated list of open positions in UX and related areas. — The start of the year is a popular time for job changes, especially with the ongoing #layoffs happening across the industry. With that in mind, during the holiday break we doubled down on curating open positions in UX, Product, Research, and UX Writing onto our job board. This email highlights…