UX Collective

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Common incentives Through my experience working at multiple companies and in various consulting engagements, I have seen patterns around how different departments are incentivized. Product Management  —  why has feature bloat become such an issue? Types of incentives associated with different groups.

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UX Collective

MAY 10, 2022

Example UX tear downs : Learn from established or related patterns, especially when those patterns are easily accessible (generally harder for paid products). ?? Design reviews: Regular reviews with other designers, your product team (product managers, engineers, QA, etc.), I also don’t do this alone.

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UX Collective

JANUARY 31, 2022

Why the Product Manager is secretly annoyed by you. By Aly Blenkin Emerging design patterns: How digital interactions define social ones ? Curated by Fabricio Teixeira and Caio Braga. Editors’ picks Persona permutations ? Your one-size-fits-all persona doesn’t work and what to do about it. By Sophie Shrimpton PM collaboration ?

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Inkbot Design

JANUARY 25, 2024

Using insights from psychology and neuroscience research, Johnson uncovers the mental patterns behind why people interact with interfaces the way they do. Backed by eye-tracking research and plenty of A/B testing data, Wroblewski outlines principles and patterns for boosting form completion and conversion rates.

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UX Collective

JUNE 23, 2022

In my experience, embedding in this way also accelerates shared empathy, improves collaboration, and helps designers learn other crucial skills like technical feasibility, marketing considerations, and patterns relating to tertiary cases and edge cases - all of which improve their design skills.

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UX Collective

JANUARY 29, 2024

Like a lot of disciplines (for example, product management) design is conceptually an iceberg: the simplicity of the final output hides the complexity of the work that went into producing it. The design pattern is so common that product stakeholders reach for it instinctively.

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UX Collective

OCTOBER 10, 2022

A particular challenge for us was that the second brand was a b2e brand used for internal customer and product management. We separated into components and patterns. Can you cover patterns? People expected us to provide complex patterns like product cards in the design system. Complex brands set the rules.

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Inkbot Design

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

While flashy titles like “software engineer” and “product manager” get all the hype, it's the humble test designer who makes sure new products work before they get shipped. The work of a test designer sits alongside developers, product managers, designers and other roles.

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UX Collective

APRIL 3, 2023

Here are a few examples of how you can benefit from this research, especially for product designers and product managers: As inspiration on how other marketplaces have been designed (features, flows, interactions, copy, etc.) If the product doesn’t have them, it will be considered incomplete or just plain bad.

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Inkbot Design

JANUARY 2, 2024

Crafting Intuitive Touch Experiences Fingertip navigation patterns differ vastly from using a mouse and keyboard. Building an Optimised Mobile Experience With growing mobile usage, delivering excellent responsive site experiences across smartphones is mandatory. However, unique UX considerations and technical build processes exist.

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Inkbot Design

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Producing UX Copy For Scale A product manager or engineer may handle UX writing at small startups. But for mid-size and enterprise products, the volume of UX copy required calls for dedicated UX content teams. Interface Design: Understand interface layout, patterns and components that impact UX text treatment.

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UX Collective

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Regardless of which task you’ve been given, the interviewer is most likely looking to gauge your product thinking, design strategy, communication skills, and user empathy. People have a natural affinity for patterns. Patterns are all around us. Our habits are formed by creating patterns that form our routines.

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UX Collective

APRIL 14, 2023

It describes quite well why you shouldn’t listen to a product manager or business contact. This will take time too, but it gives the advantage of being able to go back in time and see patterns in your findings. In some bizarre Product Management universe, velocity is THE measure of success.

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Design Milk

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Home Fragrance I used to work as a product manager for a home fragrance brand, and since then I’ve been very interested in home fragrances. Work by Bo Zhang + Desz: Brilliant Self The project uses mirrors to reveal the patterned reverse side of the metal plate. The world is his design oyster.

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UX Collective

NOVEMBER 26, 2022

You can use the following Innovations metrics from Strategyzer to indicate the level of progress you made on each of the nine building blocks of the business model: Strategyzer innovation metrics If you enjoyed this article, please follow me here on Medium for more stories about product discovery, product management, and product leadership.

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Inkbot Design

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Successful products are designed collaboratively by UX experts, engineers, product managers, and other stakeholders. 12: Usability Testing Iteratively testing with real users identifies the best design patterns. Invest in UX Testing Don't assume you know how users will respond. Avoid generic, business-focused jargon. #14:

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UX Collective

AUGUST 21, 2021

This will help us get the existing workflows and their behavioral pattern as insights to consider going forward. Observe the existing interaction model & build muscle & flexibility into it for more accessibility Work pattern Are your users extensively used to touch or keyboard or mouse interactions? It is the need of the hour.

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UX Collective

AUGUST 21, 2021

This will help us get the existing workflows and their behavioral pattern as insights to consider going forward. Observe the existing interaction model & build muscle & flexibility into it for more accessibility Work pattern Are your users extensively used to touch or keyboard or mouse interactions? It is the need of the hour.

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UX Collective

JUNE 1, 2023

In the early 2010’s, the digital design community got swept up in a great wave of ideas from software development, product management, and business strategy, including agile , lean start-up , and design sprints. I quickly saw that the new conceptual model was a better fit to the needs of digital product design.

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UX Collective

MAY 6, 2023

External Familiarity Encompasses: Common industry interaction patterns; Global interaction patterns; Familiar terminology; Established mental models. Introducing a new design pattern can be challenging, but if it simplifies a task, users may find it difficult to switch back to a less efficient product.

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UX Collective

APRIL 15, 2022

How Agile leaves design out, and what we can do about it. Continue reading on UX Collective ».

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UX Collective

MARCH 9, 2023

Sometimes it led to “dark patterns” that are not associated with a great product experience. Most popular patterns are coming from checkout journeys in e-commerce or airlines where various “hacks” are used to maximize potential revenue. Airline's checkout journeys as an example of “dark patterns” ?

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UX Collective

DECEMBER 23, 2021

This is where the first product management tip comes into play, reducing decision fatigue as much as possible. Product managers and designers understand that the less decisions the user has to make or the easier the decision is to make, the more likely a user will be to appreciate the product, and continue to use it.

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UX Collective

OCTOBER 23, 2021

But with my Product Manager hat on, I also often think of what I would have done if I managed this product. As Product Managers, and UX people, we need to think about the user and that's ideally the paramount concern we are supposed to focus on. I wonder if it is the ideal experience for me?

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Inkbot Design

AUGUST 11, 2023

IA offers principles, patterns and best practices that can elevate any designer's skills. Designers and developers will understand what needs to be built and why, product managers will know what to prioritise, and stakeholders will know what success looks like. What is Information Architecture In UX?

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UX Collective

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Scientists from the University of Texas showed that people from high PD cultures see imaginary patterns in random black and white dots. Do you see a pattern in this? — Photo This leads to a strong desire for structure for various aspects of life. They naturally create structure when it doesn’t exist.

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Inkbot Design

OCTOBER 31, 2022

When users cannot accomplish the desired action, it creates frustration, confusion, and adverse reaction to interact with your product. Therefore, your UX design team, mobile app development team and product managers should carefully analyse why user friction happens, figure out all possible reasons, and do their best to reduce it.

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Inkbot Design

MAY 21, 2024

Some tips: Use recognised navigation patterns that align with best practices (think nav bars, hamburger menus, etc.) Put your most popular products and categories front-and-center Incorporate filters so users can narrow options down without getting overwhelmed. Letting users get lost and frustrated is a big no-no in ecommerce app land.

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UX Collective

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

In my experience, even design, engineering, and product management have their own hang-ups with design systems, so today I want to address how you might bring those influential groups to your side to bolster support for your next design system effort.

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UX Collective

OCTOBER 4, 2022

In terms of user experience, it means that similar elements and patterns are uniform, they look and function similarly. For the goals of this article, I will focus on internal consistency , thus uniformity of elements within one ecosystem of products and websites. For example, imagine a table grid component.

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UX Collective

OCTOBER 26, 2023

My job has focussed on evangelising the importance of users within the product development process and reducing guesswork when it comes to generating impact. Think about salespeople, customer service, product managers, marketing or engineering. Make relationships as widespread as you can.

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Design Beep

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

From product management to data analysis to developing new software, tech experts are needed in every part of business operations. Product Management. Technical product management skills are a necessity in today’s age to advance in your tech-related career. Cybersecurity. Cybercrime is on the rise.

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UX Collective

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

It’s unethical to exacerbate user stress by falsely implying the need for rapid decisions due to a limited product supply, often just to drive purchases and boost success metrics, creating a negative sense of urgency. These patterns, deliberately or not, are “by definition, misleading” and “antithetical to transparency.”

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Inkbot Design

MAY 31, 2023

These studies provide insights into user attention patterns, reading behaviour, and navigation strategies. Topics include mobile navigation patterns, gestures, and responsive design techniques. Interaction Designers focus on designing interactive elements, and user flows within a digital product. 3 – Product Manager.

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UX Collective

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

→ [Sponsored] Zeda is a game-changer when it comes to aggregating product feedback from multiple sources and producing AI-powered insights from it. This is going to be a goldmine for product managers. What insights would you like to see and use to build your product strategy and roadmap?

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Smashing Magazine Graphics

DECEMBER 22, 2021

It starts off taking a closer look at what UX research is all about and why it’s the backbone of building good products, dissects different research methods and tools, and shares tips for creating a research plan and establishing a UX research process. A great read for UX designers and product managers alike. Localization In UX.

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UX Collective

AUGUST 24, 2023

Should we allow design patterns that push drivers to continue their shifts for longer than physically or legally advised ? Scrolling patterns, notifications, likes systems etc. Can we consider these apps immoral if they don’t use any deceptive design patterns? Next to the food delivery option of bolt, uber, etc.,

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