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Nov 11, 2019 / 0 Comments

Should UX Designers Design? Yes, no, maybe

Like an engineer would have stated: it depends 😊

My skill set really doesn’t strongly suggest visual design. But yes, I’m a UX Designer, for sure. And I’m confident enough to add that I’m pretty good at it. But I’m not the pixel acrobatic.

Side note: you’re unsure about your own skill set or how to put your superpowers? Find a handy tool at the end of this post.

Yes there are plenty of reasons why a UX Designer’s skill set should include strongly developed skills in visual design. No wonder, as most of the results of our work are visual– at least superficially. And so most of us designers are really good– you guess it– designers. But this doesn’t have to be the case for all of us.

Dec 12, 2018 / 1 Comment

Designers Also Should Build Physical Prototypes

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My very basic, yet fully functional physical prototype

When designing digital products we, as UX Designers, deal with screens, pages, and page flows. We rarely get physical. Maybe sometimes we make paper prototypes for e.g. website navigation. But typically our experience doesn’t reach beyond digital.

Imagine areas where physical objects and digital applications merge. Think about a smart home use case, where things are interacting with associated apps. Software that, on a digital screen, lets you control the settings of a smart device. If you want to create a really good app for a smart home use case, you need to know how the physical object works.

Nov 23, 2018 / 0 Comments

UX Design Not is

To understand what UX Design is, understand you must: UX Design not is – only.

It’s been over a year since our division (finally) changed to an agile setup with teams working in SCRUM. At the initial stages, UX for co-workers and other stakeholders was something like this: ok code’s ready, feature’s built, UXer will get into the creative mode and provide the pixels – asap. Something wasn’t quite right yet.

Dec 17, 2017 / 1 Comment

You really need to moderate your Deliverables

All too often you can observe the following: It’s review time and the first public deliverables are to be shown and discussed. The beamer launches and the UX Designer starts describing the pictures (e.g. wireframes). But obviously, nobody seems to get what he’s talking about. The following discussion gets out of hand and carried away – if there’s any discussion at all.

Should UX Designers Design? Yes, no, maybe

Designers Also Should Build Physical Prototypes

UX Design Not is

You really need to moderate your Deliverables

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