Effective Remote Design
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by Jared Spool
6y ago
In this week’s article Jim Kalbach talks about increasingly remote workspaces and how companies are managing and benefiting from remote work. We spend a lot of time and energy maintaining our office buildings. Getting our physical workspaces in order is important for productive work and effective collaboration. Why don’t we spend as much effort configuring our digital workplaces? The remote workspace is a constellation of services and tools: conferencing calling, chat, file sharing, and project management tools. It needs attention too. Read the article: Effective Remote Design Does your compa ..read more
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CSS Grid And Accessibility
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by Jared Spool
6y ago
Now that we have the ability to separate source from design using CSS Grid, the likelihood that some creators will overlook accessibility is high. When we can easily reorder items in the display, we should be careful to also reorder them in the source, explains Rachel Andrew, lest we create havoc for screen readers. Ideally, developers will create accessible documentation and use grid and Flexbox to display it across devices. The worst-case scenario, explains Rachel, will be those that remove semantic elements and make everything a grid or flex item. CSS Grid has the power to realize design la ..read more
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How Designers Turn Into Design Leaders
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by Jared Spool
7y ago
In this week’s article, I discuss effective ways to identify, support, and develop design managers into design leaders within an organization. Here’s an excerpt from the article: Just having a person appointed as design manager won’t get the organization great designs. Design leaders have to emerge for that to happen. Those leaders have to formulate a vision of what great design could be for that organization. And they have to gain followers among their peers throughout the organization, and support from the executive team.” Design leadership is a hugely important topic these days. That’s why ..read more
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Incorporating Content Strategy into Your Information Architecture
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by Jared Spool
7y ago
In this week’s article, Margot Bloomstein shares examples of how organizations are successfully incorporating content strategy into their information architecture. Here’s an excerpt from the article: What’s in, and what’s out? “In my experience, it is very easy for brilliant information architects (or UX people who do information architecture) to underestimate the importance of editorial planning, voice and tone, and detailed guidelines for content creation. And conversely, it’s very easy for highly skilled content people to underestimate how much information architecture has to do with things ..read more
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When “I Don’t Know” Is The Most Powerful Thing You Can Say
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by Jared Spool
7y ago
Inject Innovative Techniques into Your Design Process Design Sprints have, perhaps, a less publicized but high value outcome, in addition to providing an effective model to rapidly test and prototype products. Sprints afford an opportunity to level the playing field of ideas. At the start of a sprint, all ideas are put forth to be tested and validated, whether they come from the highest paid executive in the room to the most junior team members. It’s okay in a sprint to say “I Don’t Know,” because the team is free to explore, test, and validate the assumptions they have at the start. Free your ..read more
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Heads Up: More Than Half of UI22’s Tickets Are Already Gone
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by Jared Spool
7y ago
The tools you need to elevate what you do as a designer just dropped $200 Hello, The price​ for this amazing event increased last week​ but not for you. Many UX professionals ​already registered at the lower price last week and we think​ you should too​. Why? Great question. The agenda is pretty awesome. The food is incredible. There are abundant chances to meet new and interesting people. I will grab your attention on Tuesday with a captivating ke ..read more
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Service Design Thinking
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by Jared Spool
7y ago
This week were are taking a look back at Marc Stickdorn’s article on Service Design Thinking. Come see Marc present his workshop Service Design: Creating Delightful Cross-Channel Experiences at this year’s UI22. Here’s an excerpt from the article: Service Design or Design Thinking is often linked with terms, such as innovation (process), change, and improvement. How can Service Design Thinking be integrated in an organization as a mean of change? Service Design became more and more popular over the last years. Service Design refers to innovating both tangible products and services and is nowa ..read more
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Emergent Principles: A Rebel Leader’s Secret to Better Team Design Decisions
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by Jared Spool
7y ago
In this week’s article, I discuss how “emergent principles” can become tools for teams to make tough design decisions. Here’s an excerpt from the article: …The principles came about as the team was learning, often deep in the middle of their projects. The list of principles was growing and the teams were embracing each one. These particular principles emerged. They usually emerged from user research. The team would see patterns of broken things in the existing design. At that moment, a team member would propose they create a new principle to guide their future design work. Teams latch onto eme ..read more
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Reduce Chaos through Structure and Processes
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by Jared Spool
7y ago
Nathan Curtis @nathanacurtis Reduce Chaos through Structure and Processes A living design system will save your business money and allow your team to work more productively and cohesively across business units. To sustain your design system, teams need to be invested in its creation and maintenance, and to be communicating and sharing their work across the products and experiences that everyone is building and supporting. What strategies can you use to maintain those lines of communication across teams? Nathan Curtis recommends that regular meetings can be useful and productive, if they a ..read more
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Create a Cohesive Customer Experience
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by Jared Spool
7y ago
Designing the Customer Experience Our understanding of customers—their behaviors and needs—has grown more sophisticated, because the experiences we design demand it. Our customers routinely dip in and out of contact with our products, both offline and online. They reach across channels to contact us, to share their experiences. They fall short of converting at points along their journey. What triggers these behaviors and why? It is in those unexpected moments that we fail the customer. As designers and digital professionals, we work as detectives, sifting through data, both qualitative and qu ..read more
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