Sarah Khalid
How To Avoid Design Failure – Even For Complex, Messy, Enterprise Products
If you have been ignoring your product design problems, it will ultimately lead to designs that drive low or even negative value for the user; in other words, design failure.
Vinay Draksharam
Should We Redesign Our Product? Here’s How To Figure Out If You Need UI vs UX
Should we update our product look and feel? Does it need to be more modern and sexy? More “WOW”? And if so, can we do it in two months or less?
Satyam Kantamneni
The *Real* Secret of Tesla’s Success: Creating an All-New Experience for Car Buyers
If ever an experience warranted a redesign, it would be buying a car. In the traditional scenario, tense, drawn-out negotiations with salespeople working on commission and against quotas leave consumers cold.
Satyam Kantamneni
Modern Experience Design: How Disney Pioneered the Practice
Note: This is an excerpt from the new book User Experience Design: A Practical Playbook to Fuel Business Growth, available now. There’s a reason Walt Disney is often heralded as the world’s first experience designer. According to...
Elinor Chang
What I Get Asked Most About My UX Apprenticeship Experience
Whenever I mention that my career at UXReactor as an Associate UX Consultant started with a UX Apprenticeship, people are intrigued by what the Apprenticeship entailed and what my experience was like.
Sarah Khalid
A Remote Perspective: Design Team Collaboration
At UXReactor, we’ve been working as distributed teams for years and have some best practices to help your teams maximize their effectiveness, whether you’re new to collaborating remotely or want to see greater success with your existing...
Elinor Chang
7 Tips For Better Micro-Interactions
Attention to detail is what differentiates an exceptional eXperience from an ordinary one, so polish your interface from top to bottom by spicing it up with well-placed micro-interactions and animations. It will breathe life into your project.
Elinor Chang
Designing Websites vs Applications
In order to create meaningful eXperiences that people will love, whether it is a website or an application, it is crucial to understand these fundamental differences.
Elinor Chang
The Logic behind Inspiration Gathering
If you have faced any of these issues while inspiration gathering, this article can help you redirect your energy to search effectively for inspirations and distinguish between those that are actually driving value vs those that are...
Elinor Chang
What I Learned As A Nomadic Designer
I have realized over this time, that making time to reflect on the good and bad of anything you do allows you to take those learnings into account for the next projects, challenges, or individual tasks with...