UX Design Portfolio Checklist
I have created this UX design portfolio checklist partly for selfish reasons to make my job as a design instructor easier. For the past two years, I have been getting the same question, “Is this work good enough for my…
Are we more creative alone or together?
Our workspaces and office culture put more emphasis on open spaces for better collaboration. The idea is that generating ideas and executing on the work can happen more efficiently if we work in a collaborative space at all times. Considering…
Nurturing Design Culture on an Enterprise Product Team
This an adaption of a presentation I did for UX Australia’s Managing Design Conference. The basis of this talk came out of my experience moving from startups and agency culture to enterprise product. When I joined IBM Design as a…
Great UX Storytelling Makes Great Design
"Great designers are great storytellers,” proclaimed my creative director. “No one will really get your screens and workflows unless you attach it to a compelling story,” she added. Over the years, I found this to be very true. The more…
3 Lessons from 100 Days of Agile
I am not an expert in agile methodologies. My background mostly consists of designing for small companies, agencies, and startups. In each of those environments, I worked with managers and creative directors who used agile terminology loosely. However, our work…
Sagar Arora on Shifting Education to Meet the Needs of the UX Industry
This week is part two of my interview with Sagar, a UMASS Amherst student, and aspiring UX designer. We spent more time exploring how he constructed his own major to meet the changing needs of the UX industry as well…
Sagar Arora on Creating Your Own Work Experience
This week I caught up with UX designer and UMASS Amherst student, Sagar Arora. He and I met a couple of years ago during an IBM Design Thinking workshop on the UMASS campus. In this session, we talk about how…
Nerd Summit: Building Bridges with Research
This year I set the goal to speak and connect audiences that were beyond my comfort zone. With a design background and growing focus on UX research, I tend to have an audience with designers and researchers throughout the workday.…
How to Beef Up your UX Portfolio
Over the Winter break, I worked with a few former students and new friends in a one-month portfolio group workshop. The goal was to beef up their UX portfolios. The group had six members with portfolios in different stages of…
5 Steps to Better User Interviews
Whether you are in the discovery phase of your project or testing your designs, you will need to do user interviews. These sessions are more than a conversation and require some level of skill and organization to keep the participant…