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The power of metrics entered Product Management to change it forever. Before product metrics, we were shooting blindfolded. We just understood the result of our shots at the end of the game or even the championship. Feedback and learning took too long. We were relying on business metrics. Consider revenue, for example. That’s a lagging success indicator. It might take months for a decrease in user
For many SaaS applications, product designers need to design permission systems due to privacy concerns and data safety, or in order to make it more efficient and relevant for different types of users. It could be a challenge to set up the structure and continue scaling it as your product evolves. Let me share some concepts and ideas based on my experience designing permissions for an enterprise d
Serving AI features to users like little peas — instead of a substantial meal.TLDR: The thing missing from AI user experience is, well, the experience. It’s been 17 months since the tech gods bestowed generative artificial intelligence on us. Here’s a state of the union for AI UX: A bunch of companies shipped either an AI summary feature or a RAG-based search featureThey all declared their product
What do Switzerland, the US, Sweden, the UK, and the Netherlands have in common? They are all rich, protestant, relatively cold countries where a big part of the population consists of (former) immigrants. They also form the top 5 of the Global Innovation Index. These countries invest greatly in R&D, infrastructure, regulations (and intellectual property protection) and education. The countries ar
Most designers are familiar with responsive design, a column-based layout approach with fixed breakpoints to cover all screen sizes. However, we can move beyond the rigid structure with modern CSS layouts, crafting flexible and dynamic designs that seamlessly adjust to different screen sizes. Designers and developers having different mental models when discussing layout, especially grid, leads to
Crafted to be your ultimate roadmap in the journey of UI design. Whether you are a seasoned designer looking to refresh your approach or a novice eager to learn the ropes, these rules are tailored to help you create interfaces that are not just visually appealing but also intuitively functional. To navigate this complex terrain, I have compiled 58 rules across eight categories, collectively formin
I can’t believe I am writing this, but… as UX designers, we must understand the users. Shocker! However, is this enough when we design international products? Perhaps not. I believe only interviewing users doesn’t give you a full understanding. You get an idea of the user’s behaviour but not the causes of these very behaviours. Multicultural UX design is complex. To get a profound comprehension of
When crafting mobile app interfaces, designers continually encounter the necessity to make decisions. There are numerous ways to convey the same information to users. At times, designers find it challenging to determine which element is most fitting for accomplishing their goals. For instance, how should the information be presented within a given scenario? Should it open on a new screen, a sheet
If you’re new to creating color palettes for digital spaces, check out my previous article, Color for brand designers working with product teams, for tips on selecting your brand colors. 👉🏻 Follow along in Figma: Community File What is a color ramp?A color ramp, also known as a color scale, is a visual representation of how colors transition from light to dark in a smooth and continuous manner.
Loading and progress indicators are essential elements of UX/UI design that help users stay informed and engaged during waiting periods. Whether it’s loading a webpage, processing a transaction, or downloading content, well-designed indicators can significantly improve user experience. Among Jakob Nielsen’s ten heuristics, the visibility of system status takes precedence as the foremost and essent
Designing interfaces for applications and software that people will use involves aligning them with the mental models that individuals possess. These mental models represent a compressed version of reality that people use to handle situations in life, even though they may not accurately reflect the full picture or true reality (as proposed by Donald Hoffman). Similarly, we say that people have a m
A great user onboarding experience shortens the time it takes for users to understand the value of your product, and get to their first “Aha” or “Wow” moment ( a moment of sudden realization, inspiration, insight, recognition or comprehension). First impressions are crucialOnboarding lies at the start of your customer journey. Capturing users’ loyalty in those initial interactions with the product
Changing of the guards. Photo by Micah Kunkle on UnsplashAs startups refocus on “operational efficiency,” let’s emphasize that efficiency is a way of working, not your headcount. Agile development has been the #1 operational principle of tech for over 20 years, unchecked, unquestioned. Yet, it has fundamental flaws that have been glaring at us all along. Flaw #1: Humans are not machinery.Flaw #2:
For the past few months, I’ve noticed an increasing number of designers online complaining about their lack of time to design. They have a packed agenda full of meetings and, if they’re lucky, they have little blocks of an hour of less to design. This is nothing new, I’ve been there. I’ve seen designers complain about this throughout my entire career. I’ve done it too. I’ve also seen managers tryi
Image by Lili Kovac.On May 11th, 2022, Airbnb announced a redesign that, according to CEO Brian Chesky, was the app’s “biggest change in a decade”. It was met with mixed emotions: some people loved it while others didn’t even understand what changed. I’m a believer. Designers are comfortable understanding how design decisions impact user behavior. In this particular case, what fascinates me is how
TL;DR: Digital product design teams are often referred to as “the UX team” or “the UX/UI team,” which are terminologies that can significantly disturb a proper understanding of what UX and digital product design actually are and what a digital product design team does. For one, the user’s experience can’t be designed in the first place, and “doing UX” goes way beyond the scope of digital product d
Minimalism is the concept that embodies the phrase “less is more”. It is also a concept that crosses our lives in many shapes and forms: for some people, it’s a lifestyle, for others is an organisation mindset, and some might even perceive it as “cleaner” looking things. In Design, minimalism is one of the many art concepts that describes a form of content, and it can be used in many ways. As defi
The goal was simple: to define the main colors so that their relative luminances, as defined by WCAG, are close to each other. This way, when designers swap out one status color for another, they are guaranteed by the design system that the color contrast ratio still passes the accessibility requirement. In this design, we don’t want the “in progress” tag to be any more prominent than the “finishe
Illustration from the book Collaborative Product Design: Help Any Team Build a Better Experience by Austin GovellaDigital products are more complex today than ever before. Creating them requires multiple team members and other stakeholders, each with their own set of skills and expertise. There is a lot of communication around design, and all the design deliverables that we produce are also aiming
Growing up in Singapore, I am exposed to cultural influences from the West as well as the East. I use Western apps like Pinterest as well as its Chinese close equivalent 小红书 (Xiao Hong Shu). There are definitely differences in the digital products’ user experience and here are some of my thoughts: Language systemTo start, we have to understand the language systems used by the Chinese and English l
Design tokens are the single source of truth for design primitives like colors or tokens. If you are new to the topic, you may want to learn the basics of design tokens first. Note: This article aims to be an exhaustive reference for naming design tokens. If you find some information is missing, please do let me know via a comment or email so I can add it. Naming token levelsTokens are commonly sp
If you are anything like me, you happily used Pixel (px) in Sketch and Figma during the past years without thinking much about it. It is the unit they gave me. Surely it is correct, and if not, the development team can fix that, no? Plus, there are a lot of people saying my design should be pixel perfect, right? Not quite (unless you interpreted “pixel perfect” as avoiding half-pixel). Let’s get s
If we have a large set of variants for buttons, input fields, and so on, it will cost us tons of precious time if we decide down the line that 8px radius looks better than 12px or if we need to make any other adjustments. By using base components for our variant sets we can make one adjustment to our base and it will push the changes to all of our variant instances. To do this, create a base compo
What does the Safari 15 update mean for my designs? Apple introduced iOS 15 with quite minor visual changes, but the biggest visual and conceptual change in the OS is probably Safari. It will get a brand new interface on iPhones, iPads and Macs. Let’s go through everything new and design changes you need to know about.
CreditFOMO is defined as the apprehension that one is either not in-the-know or missing out on information, events, experiences, or decisions that could make their life better. But we don’t need to be told that, do we? A majority of us have experienced FOMO, the fear of missing out, personally. It is a feeling we have come to understand viscerally. While social media is the most obvious contributo
UI design and especially its more artistic, visual side is constantly evolving. While most current products repeat the same, trusted and well-known IA patterns, UI and the Value Proposition are the biggest differentiators the product can have. Nobody is going to try and redesign a registration process that works well in thousands of other apps — we’ll tweak it, for sure, and hopefully with some re
In business, things change quickly. Trends come and go; tools wax and wane. Companies have to stay abreast of trends and constantly innovate in order to survive. InVision was once an industry darling, enjoying rapid user growth, strong market momentum, and an almost $2 billion valuation. Three short years later, it’s almost an relic. In 2017, InVision was the top prototyping tool, with 60% of UXTo
As a web/interface/visual designer I work a lot with label states. Selected, unselected, active, inactive, available, out of stock. Considering that you should never use color as the only visual cue (always remember accessibility dear designer), text weight is often my go-to solution. However, if you’ve ever worked with precisely designed interfaces before, you know how frustrating it can be to fi
In a month we will (finally!) say goodbye to the not-so-cool year 2020. Since my previous article about trends was quite successful, I took some time and did some industry research, to create a 2021 Design Trend Guide. Let’s take a look at what 2021 will bring! 1. 3D Illustrations (yeah, still!)3D imagery is here to stay — especially when it’s getting easier and easier for regular UI designers to
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