Late last Thursday, I was in bed scrolling Instagram and came across a stylized drawing of a Super Nintendo controller. I wish I’d saved the post to link here, because it was absolutely stellar. Seeing it must have triggered a dopamine rush or serotonin boost or—I don’t know, whatever hormone…

Time is precious—don’t waste it reinventing the wheel — While most well funded teams have access to robust tools like Jira or UserZoom to manage their product & design processes, leaner teams often have to find value in simpler, cost-effective solutions. When those solution can’t be found, valuable time is spent scraping together in-house workarounds. …

Article contents What is Atomic Design? Why do you need Atomic Design? When should you use Atomic Design? How do you use Atomic Design? Key Takeaways What is Atomic Design? In 2016, Brad Frost introduced Atomic Design as a modular methodology for building simple, maintainable, pattern libraries. It does this by building larger, more complex UI…

Recruiting UX research participants can be challenging — particularly when you’re targeting a narrow demographic or on a tight timeline. With that said, there are several ways in which you can effectively acquire research participants. …

As much as I value Figma for UI design, I also recognize its faults. Between an unoptimized web experience, restrictive page management, and stuttering smart animate, there’s plenty of room to grow. Here are the top three features I’d like to see added to Figma 1. Interactive Text Fields

A Case Study By “The Designer” — The following report was rescued from the archives of the Nebuchadnezzar. It was drafted by an artificial intelligence known only as “The Designer.” Table of contents Introduction Scope Process Key Insights Takeaway Introduction Greetings, I am The Designer, a Construct model developed by the Zion Council in response to the Machine’s rapid rate of…

Figma is my tool of choice for designing user interfaces. Extremely simple to use, the learning curve is a fraction of what’s required for any given Adobe Creative Cloud software. But, that simplicity comes at a price: Figma’s primary focus is not illustration or graphic design, and many designers still…

4 steps to auditing user experiences. — As designers, we envision our process beginning with understanding the problem, empathizing with users, and discovering possible solutions. But reality isn’t always so kind. In many (if not most) cases, we’re brought onto projects already in production, with the problem defined and the solution at least partially implemented. These projects…

Figma is a revolutionary cloud-based design platform that simplifies team collaboration and absolutely crushes the risk of losing your work from unwarranted crashes (I’m looking at you, Adobe). With that said, it’s still relatively young and is always evolving. It wasn’t too long ago that powerful features like Auto Layout…