In the last 18 months I’ve done design work for both the consultancy sector, helping customers design and build custom applications using our product, as well as internal product work, collaborating closely with our engineers to build a product to eventually self-serve our customers. While this setup of consultancy work financially funding the internal product work may not be unique for many start-ups, it does create a bit of polarity in my growth as a designer. Skills, methods and team structures in consultancy work do not always translate well for internal product work, and vice-a-versa. Regardless, the duality, and sometimes similarities, have laid some of the groundwork for my perspective and development as a designer.
Read MoreAs of this writing I’ve been with my company just shy of a year. And in that year it’s been nothing but crash courses in work culture, deep tech, startup life, UX-UI design, and – of course – understanding how to work with developers in agile workflows with the latter causing quite a few pain points.
Read MoreIt’s easy to get caught up in common UX dogma like “good UX is seamless, intuitive and frictionless”. And probably 95% of the time this works. But sometimes friction is a good thing because it forces us to slow down in the same way that being nervous heightens alertness. The behavior may not always be desired but it does have merit. And as designers we have a responsibility to consider the intentional and unintentional consequences of our designs.
Read MoreYou know the classic paradox: which came first – the chicken or the egg? It’s a philosophical question as old as time where individuals attempt to understand cause and effect of their surroundings and situations. While it may not be as obvious to some, I think the question is deeply connected to the design-development process when it comes to the product, software and services we create.
Read MoreIf you’re just starting out with your portfolio and have already done some preliminary research you might discover that some sites recommend unsolicited redesigns of existing products while others strongly discourage this. So what exactly should you do?
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