Project & Team Management What are the Benefits of a Design Backlog? Managing design work is typically less straightforward than development work and not always done as a traditional design backlog.
UX/Design Practices Don’t Let Your Design System Dictate Your Design Process Design systems are valuable for creating consistency and structure in the design process, but they can be limiting if relied on too heavily.
UX/Design Practices Use “Buy a Feature” to Prioritize Work that Really Matters Buy a Feature is a great game for any time during a software project to help teams prioritize work that is truly valuable.
AI for Designers Why AI Will Not Replace UX Designers (And How it Could Help Us) AI art generators may not have a deep understanding of how humans perceive and interact with design elements.
UX/Design Practices The Value of Doing On-Site Customer Interviews In-person customer interviews require more resources and coordination, but there are several benefits to in-person vs. a video call.
The Software Life Understanding Software Jargon, Part 3: Design Terms Today, we'll discuss design terms such as "design system," a method that uses elements in a style guide to build the components of a system.
The Software Life 3 Benefits of Storybook-Driven Development Storybook-Driven Development (SDD) is a concept that helps developers create extensible and lightweight UI primitives.
UX/Design Practices When Everyone Has a Seat at the Design Table If you can find a space for every voice at the table during design feedback, you might be surprised by the richness of the conversation.
UX & Design Create a Visual Design System for Implementation Teams A design system on its own can be helpful, but a shared design system all implementors can view is a design system that will be used.
UX/Design Practices Try This Exercise in Creating Personas for Software Design Ideally, personas emerge from contextual research. In lieu of research, teams can create proto-personas, to be refined through research.
UX & Design 3 Great Benefits of Design Workshops for a Developer I am not a designer, so why was I recently in a design workshop? I want to point out some less obvious benefits I observed upon reflection.
UX/Design Tools Set Up Design Implementation for a New Software Project Using Figma Here is my current game plan to get the design implementation side of a software project up and running quickly, using Figma.
