#productdesign
Why Most Advanced Yet Acceptable Products win: MAYA dictates that the ideal design sits between solutions that are completely novel and entirely familiar. Be too novel and customers will tune you out. Be too familiar and customers will look right past you.
#ProductManagement #ProductDesign #Innovation #UXDesign
https://every.to/p/the-most-advanced-yet-acceptable-products-win
Dezeen : Marc Newson collaborates with Flite to create "world's lightest" electric hydrofoil https://www.dezeen.com/2023/09/28/marc-newson-flite-worlds-lightest-electric-hydrofoil/ #LondonDesignFestival #Productdesign #Carbonfibre #MarcNewson #Monochrome #Products #Surfing #Design #all
Kia ora Fediverse, I’m #OpenToWork! 👋
I am a Product Designer (UX/UI) with over 3 years of expertise crafting user-centric experiences ranging from native mobile app interfaces, to web-based dashboards.
I live in Aotearoa New Zealand and prefer remote, but I’m open to on-site opportunities in Te Whanganui-a-Tara 💨.
If you or someone you know is looking for a designer, I’d love to chat! (Links in bio)
Mā te wā! 💚
(PS: I’m available to start ASAP!)
Develop products and services with clients at conferences so company representatives and participants can work on possible future directions and outcomes
#meetings #EventDesign #ClientConference #ProductDesign #ProductDevelopment #eventprofs

A team working within the framework of product bets needs to intentionally curate the data that informs its decisions. It’s not enough to ship ideas that seem good or get “validated” and then wait for your NPS scores or trailing indicators to reflect the impact.
Dezeen : "People living with disabilities are done waiting for accessible designs" https://www.dezeen.com/2023/09/27/accessible-designs-luc-speisser-landor-and-fitch-opinion/ #Accessibledesign #Productdesign #Opinion #Design #all
So, how do you build a website that looks and feels the same as your mobile products or your TV experience, without losing their unique characteristics?
#DesignSystems #ProductDesign #UXDesign
https://www.figma.com/blog/creating-coherence-how-spotifys-design-system-goes-beyond-platforms/
“Need a little bell for my desk I can slap when I visit a website with sufficiently sized text and appropriate contrast.” — Karolina Szczur
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#Design #Development #ProductDesign #UxDesign #UiDesign #WebDesign #WebDev #Frontend #Accessibility #Quote
By trying to avoid being wrong at all, these teams made it a lot more expensive to be wrong, and reduced their chances of being right. And the designers got the blame for doing a bad implementation of their stakeholders’ brilliant ideas.
https://spavel.medium.com/design-is-the-art-of-being-wrong-safely-7575b0c395c2
So I discussed the findings of my research on the complexity of developing products for nurses in a hospital setting, with an innovation manager.
Here is my drawing which I used to make it more clear. 😂
#nurses #productdesign #SystemsThinking

#Design #Approaches
Ditch the tutorials and unleash your creativity · A guide to mastering UI Design by doing https://ilo.im/159o7x
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#ProductDesign #UiDesign #WebDesign #Skills #Learning #Creating
Looking at agile through the eyes of a designer, it’s easy to spot the problem: the dogma of shipping small stuff fast so that you can gather feedback on what to do next more quickly. Agilists believe that finished software is not only the best way to deliver value, but also the best way to learn and iterate.
In reality, it is probably the worst way.
#UXDesign #ProductDesign #Agile
https://uxdesign.cc/successful-iteration-requires-going-beyond-agile-81ef0bc80798
Teaser shot of a Goomba phone I think I'm almost done with (gotta play with the cord physics so it lies on the table) in a Mario-themed room I'm working on. #Blender3D #WIP #EeveeRender #SuperMarioBros #ProductDesign

#Design #Collections
Ultimate mockup resources collection · Inspiring mockups, brought together in one spot https://ilo.im/159dil
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#ProductDesign #UxDesign #UiDesign #WebDesign #GraphicDesign #Mockups #Inspirations
Closeup of a novelty phone I'm modelling in #Blender3d
The numbers are black in Eevee; I'm not sure why Cycles is interpreting the material differently.
#3DArt #Cycles #ProductDesign #Retro

#Design #Pitfalls
The tyranny of the marginal user · Why consumer software gets worse, not better, over time https://ilo.im/1589mp
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#Business #Monetization #Metrics #KPIs #ProductDesign #UxDesign #UiDesign #WebDesign #Users
#UX designer = free roaming trouble maker (historically)
Product designer = subservient cog in a product delivery process
(Yes I feel like kicking the wasp nest this morning 😉 )
The rise of the #productDesign title feels like it comes about from the industrialisation and commodification of #design and the design-ification of #product and the rest of business.
Design as a profession feels like it's losing here. But more good design is probably being done, so maybe it's a win.
Working 98% of my time remotely today's special, as I will do an in-person UX workshop.
Seems like I wasn’t done making refinements to the Trip screen 😅.
The past couple days, I’ve focused on fleshing out the experience and flow of adding a new trip.
I feel good about the way the location search works (and it even accounts for cases where a user might want to use their own input as a location instead of a preloaded one).

#Design #Findings
Examining UX professionals’ attitudes towards AI · A study suggests most UX specialists are welcoming AI https://ilo.im/158z0v
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#ProductDesign #UxDesign #UiDesign #WebDesign #AI #Chatbots #Survey
How to Boost Any Mobile Screen Usage with this simple analytics trick
https://medium.com/seniors-product-designer-blog/how-to-boost-any-mobile-screen-usage-with-this-simple-analytics-trick-a7ca473fd5ca

#Design #Approaches
New ideas and unique solutions from Figma on accessibility · How Figma is catching up in the accessibility field https://ilo.im/158t1t
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#ProductDesign #UxDesign #UiDesign #WebDesign #DesignTool #Prototyping #Accessibility
#Design #Techniques
The power of heuristic evaluations · It’s a perfect way to kick off any UX redesign project https://ilo.im/158ow4
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#ProductDesign #UxDesign #UiDesign #WebDesign #InformationArchitecture #Projects #Checklist
@rust_discussions I love this! _Incremental_ improvement and early #feedback is the way to go!
Also, I really like that the author looks into how other projects are handling this #process of stabilizing features (Ember, ECMAScript etc.) - it's exactly like Rust itself has been build.
#Rust #RustLang #ProductDesign #ProductDevelopment #Innovation
Every person involved in the creation of AI at any step is responsible for its impact. The first thing that AI designers have to do is to understand the risk of their solution.
#ProductDesign #LLM #UX #UXDesign #AI
https://uxdesign.cc/dont-build-trust-with-ai-calibrate-it-2889a5740e16
#Design #Evolutions
Has data storytelling reached its peak? · The present state of data storytelling and its future direction https://ilo.im/158ig0
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#ProductDesign #UxDesign #UiDesign #WebDesign #StoryTelling #Dashboards #DataViz #Trends
Laddering is a technique used in qualitative research to understand the link between product attributes in a brand, the advantages it offers to the consumer, and finally, the end emotional benefits derived from these advantages.
I wonder if people running Slack communities will see engagement go down with the new Slack Clients?
Stacking all of the Slack groups and hiding the individual notification buttons has forced me to turn off notifications for all but the most critical groups I belong to because the single notification badge on the stack is less useful without the group context.
When I believe that design doesn’t matter, I am forgetting what design really is. Naturally, over a lifetime of practice, my understanding of the discipline of design became both broader, and deeper. I started with the skin, and went to the bones.
https://uxdesign.cc/when-you-start-to-doubt-yourself-design-from-the-inside-out-24d8b14ddafc
#Design #Approaches
Design for meaningful outcomes · People don’t want outputs; they want outcomes https://ilo.im/157zga
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#Business #Customers #ProductDesign #UxDesign #UiDesign #WebDesign #Mindsets #Outcomes #Outputs
Ombré Glass Chair by Germans Ermics https://theinspirationgrid.com/ombre-glass-chair-by-germans-ermics/ #IndustrialDesign #ProductDesign #Furniture #DesignInspiration #DesignInspo #inspiration #InspirationGrid



#Design #Examples
Some web design styles that are uniquely Japan · Design features that are rarely seen in English websites https://ilo.im/157z47
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#ProductDesign #UxDesign #UiDesign #WebDesign #DesignStyles #Typography #Imagery #Culture #Japan
In the latest issue of my #newsletter: Why heuristic evaluations matter for information architecture, plus Sönke Ahrens on smart notes and other things worth your attention.

How to do product positioning
When starting to work on a complex task, pen and paper is always a good idea. Keeps me thinking slow and not getting overwhelmed by requirements, needs, feature requests and fancy ideas.
Drawing one thought at a time and connecting the dots.
Glad that I came back quite relaxed after two weeks of vacation. Bringing together #GeospatialDesign, #map interactions and #Data handling in a new feature will make this week really challenging.
#Design #Awards
World Illustration Awards 2023 · The shortlist and winners of the renowned illustration awards https://ilo.im/15817h
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#ProductDesign #UxDesign #UiDesign #WebDesign #GraphicDesign #WIA2023 #Illustrations #Inspirations #Trends
#Design #Guides
Redesigning Design Systems · An inspiring learning space about evolving design systems https://ilo.im/157z4e
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#ProductDesign #UiDesign #WebDesign #WebDev #DesignSystems #Accessibility #Lessons #Articles #Resources
🆕 New blog on the relationship of design and value:
Design (defined broadly) is the only thing that creates value in business, or rather it's the mechanism by which value (and values) is created.
#design #uxDesign #ProductDesign #ServiceDesign #DesignManagement
Sprint meeting on my schedule for this afternoon. Curious how progress looks like after I was absent for two weeks. Things can change so fast sometimes. 😊 And happy to be reunited with my dev team. 😃
I am searching for some interesting #UX, #ProductDesign and/or #WomenInTech accounts I could follow and engage with.
Any recommendations? Boosts welcome. 😊
#Design #Explorations
Is AI better at picking and pairing fonts than you? · The current state of AI’s typographic capability https://ilo.im/157tle
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#ProductDesign #UxDesign #UiDesign #WebDesign #Typography #Fonts #AI #Tools #ChatGPT #FontJoy
Designers should always test their work. And that goes for both digital and physical products.
I just moved into a new place with a pretty, designer sink that’s almost completely flat on the bottom, so the drainage is awful. Water just pools around, things like toothpaste or soap just sit there and don’t wash away into the drain. It’s very frustrating.
There’s no way the designer(s) could have used this sink without experiencing issues.
Choice paralysis is the phenomenon where users, when presented with too many options, become overwhelmed and often struggle to make a decision. In UX, this could manifest in users spending excessive time on a page without performing any significant action or completely abandoning a task due to being overwhelmed with choices.
#Design #Explorations
Squish meets structure · Challenges of designing products with language models https://ilo.im/1575vu
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#ProductDesign #UxDesign #UiDesign #WebDesign #AI #ChatBots #ChatGPT #LanguageModels
#Design #Examples
The dangers of deceptive design patterns · See how many of these patterns you recognize https://ilo.im/156ccy
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#ProductDesign #UxDesign #UiDesign #WebDesign #DeceptiveDesign #DarkPatterns #FAQ #Reporting
#Business #Techniques
Rewriting digital content for brevity · How you can increase the chance that your words get read https://ilo.im/157lma
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#ProductDesign #UxDesign #UiDesign #WebDesign #Content #Editing #Writing #Copy
Want to learn #Substance3D Sampler? Join my coffee break livestream this Thursday 14 & let's have some fun! : https://www.youtube.com/live/pb8MAh2V9Wc?si=QJf6KeaF5OdHqObq
#CGI, #DigitalDesign, #3DArt, #3DAnimation, #3DDesign, #ProductDesign #photogrammetry #fashiondesign #productdesign #industrialdesign
The best UX outcomes will come from a deep understanding of the users’ current experiences. That deep understanding comes from a mature research practice.
https://articles.centercentre.com/shifting-our-team-goals-to-be-ux-outcomes/
#Design #Challenges
Design under pressure · Undesired users who may still access your website https://ilo.im/157bqi
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#ProductDesign #UxDesign #UiDesign #WebDesign #Users #Personas #PersonasNonGrata #MobileApp
The Knob 1 Low-Profile Keyboard by Ben Fryc https://theinspirationgrid.com/the-knob-1-low-profile-mechanical-keyboard-by-ben-fryc/ #ProductDesign #IndustrialDesign #keyboard #DesignInspiration #DesignInspo #inspiration #InspirationGrid



I've been pondering the idea of Silent Design and how recognising that most design is not done by designers makes a lot of stuff make sense.
For instance Design Thinking can be framed as professional designers helping non-designers do the design they were doing anyway but better by using the design methodologies professional designers are expert in.
#Design #Introductions
Accessibility for designers · How to drive accessibility in the product design phase https://ilo.im/155ds7
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#ProductDesign #UiDesign #WebDesign #DesignProcess #Accessibility #WebDev #Frontend
When a predominately white firm invokes “human-centered design”, it begs the question of which humans we are designing for. These innovations and innovators become hyper-focused with designing a solution to a problem— such as not wanting to physically touch a germ-filled soap dispenser handle — that they forget they’re in a room of white engineers.
#DesignThinking #UXDesign #ProductDesign
https://uxdesign.cc/the-decline-in-design-thinking-8fd0145fb4d2
Another video by
Juxtopposed :awesome:
Everything will be simpler and you WILL be happy.
https://farside.link/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04j-kUj1Zhg
(or YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04j-kUj1Zhg)
I just love this channel ❤️ 🎨
Share the #ContentDesign manifesto with your #ProductDesign friends, please!
"We are content designers, shared owners of user experience (UX) design processes. Our job is to design experiences that are clear and meaningful for the people who use them. Clarity and meaning drives business impact for our organizations."
The most practical way to measure quality is to have experts look at the thing. Ideally as many experts as possible. Ideally the experts are truly experts. If 100 experts can’t find any problems, the thing is probably perfect.
#Quality #ProductDesign #ProductManagement
https://www.anthonyhobday.com/blog/20230725.html?ref=heydesigner
In the latest issue of my #newsletter: Key practices information architects must know, plus Chiara Ogan on personal libraries and other things worth your attention. https://mailchi.mp/8dce99e555a4/yaaub1l083