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Product design is going down a weird path, but we can still save it

UX Collective

Iconic scene of 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) The golden age of software design I started my design career in quite an unexpected way. But then you look at most of the digital products around and… they're not so impressive anymore, are they? All products look the same anyway, who cares? It's a general feeling. Every time.

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UX Chunking: a new digestible product design process

UX Collective

Many product design activities at multiple stages often overlap and prevent us from seeing the bigger picture of our workflow. As product designers, we are always trying to improve upon our work, constantly revolving around challenging problems and the never-ending search for effective and efficient solutions.

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How do product design teams converge on an idea?

UX Collective

In this work, I used Slack messages from 32 product design teams as input into a specific type of topic modelling algorithm and used the statistics from these resulting models to represent the product design process. A generic product design process adapted from Ulrich, Eppinger and Yang [4]. Image from author.

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Anime Architecture celebrates iconic fictional cityscapes

Creative Review

Nowadays, computer animation is used in all areas of production, but the most important tools for the creators of the works featured here still include the layout table, paper, pencil and paintbrush – these artists established their careers and reputations at a time when anime was almost exclusively hand-drawn on paper.”

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Positive stories from freelance creatives to boost your mood in a recession

Creative Boom

And here's one that almost every freelancer can anticipate in their future: that serendipitous moment of seeing your designs on products, posters, or publications in a public space. Today, in that same bookshop, and many others, I can find some of the book covers I've designed over the last years for some of the biggest Italian publishers.

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15+ Best Graphic Design Books in 2023

Just Creative

Niggli Verlag (Publisher) $54.14 Learn More Latest Price on Amazon: Sale 81 Reviews Design Is a Job Audible Audiobook Mike Monteiro (Author) - Mike Monteiro (Narrator) English (Publication Language) 03/31/2014 (Publication Date) - A Book Apart (Publisher) $12.99 Publisher) $25.00 Buy on Amazon 2. Buy on Amazon 3.

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Patterns are good

UX Collective

The pattern-based design paradigm emerged in the 1970s when architect and mathematician Christopher Alexander (1977; 1979) published a set of descriptions about common problems in architecture and their solutions within specific contexts. Today, the way we interact with products is changing. (Head First Design Patterns, FREEMAN et al.,

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