Learnings

The characteristics of a great UX team (for me).

There are several elements I appreciate in my current team. These benchmark what I’ll expect in the future, because I’ve seen them bring out the best in the people around us and the work they do. Outwards looking Being outwards looking drives true relevance. One example of this is being able to proactively strike up a dialogue with people in different teams who hold different insights and perspectives. … Continue reading The characteristics of a great UX team (for me).

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Learnings, Rapid iterative prototyping, Tools

Sketchnotes on giving useful feedback

Reference- Discussing Design, Adam Connor and. Aaron Irizarry, O Reilly, 2015 A few years ago I was asked to host a workshop for a client, who flew in to join us for a review after designs had been drafted. To keep the conversation focussed, I referred to Adam o Connor’s Discussing Design book. This helped me to outline common goals and design a structured, controlled … Continue reading Sketchnotes on giving useful feedback

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Learnings

App review | Bentley  Inspirator 

I’m not a Bentley fan particularly,  but was interested in finding out how a cult brand would enable a build your own vehicle tool using facial recognition technology. Overall I was entertained and inspired by the content, emotive design cues and structure. The app took about 10 minutes to download on our slow work broadband. As the central feature in the app,  activating the facial recognition … Continue reading App review | Bentley  Inspirator 

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Innovation, Learnings, Uncategorized

Why serendipity is no accident

  Serendipity is about making desirable discoveries. Without it, we wouldn’t have penicillin, the microwave or the post-it note. But can it be quantified? To find out, I went to a workshop on Serendipity In Design, led by Dr Stephann Makri. I’ll be honest. As a rational UX person I thought this was going to be high on the creative fluff spectrum. I couldn’t have … Continue reading Why serendipity is no accident

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Learnings

Designing for people instead of numbers

This was originally posted on We Love Digital’s blog. Empathy is our honest answer to the question, ‘Why did they do what they did?’ – Seth Godin If we don’t make the effort to understand why people behave as they do, we’re unlikely to create better designs that influence change. Once we know what our audiences believe, where they come from and what information they … Continue reading Designing for people instead of numbers

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