Tables won’t suck if you keep these principles in mind At the heart of almost all enterprise apps is a table. Think of all the “dashboards” that people create in Excel, Google Sheets. It’s one big table. Tables are such an important part of any product or platform. …

User experience (UX) design has a wide scope and touches many things in both a product and in an organization. The field itself is fairly new and evolving rapidly along with technology. …

Recently I came across a discussion on twitter where uxers were interested in exploring how ux mentorship can work. Having been through a mentorship myself, I thought I might explain my experience and highlight what the process looked like. …

What are the UX projects you wish you’d work on? — Over the past few months, I’ve reflected a lot on what I want to do in my field of UX design. That was prompted in part by really noticing things I didn’t want to do. …

A while ago, I had this idea to write myself some instructions about onboarding* as a UX designer… collecting the I did well and noting what I should do next time. (Onboarding = to a new job, new project, new environment). …

Designing enterprise level products has allowed me to understand a level of computer science terms and frameworks that I could not have anticipated going in. Over the past while I’ve kept track of the concepts I’ve learned (or got a more complete understanding of). I’ve added a mix of my…

I go into Asana and mark a task as complete, all of a sudden a unicorn with a rainbow in its trail flies across the screen. Eyebrows go up, smile forms and high pitched ‘eeeeeeeee!’ Can be heard from across the open plan office. The elusive ‘delight’ has struck. That’s…

I’ve noticed that growing as a designer doesn’t happen on a linear path of Time VS Growth. Instead I see phases in those I’ve worked with (and myself) that do a better job of capturing this ‘growth/life cycle’. There are 4 phases:

As complexity of interactions increase, so do demands on UX (user experience) designers to produce appropriate documentation to communicate this complexity. When you’re dealing with enterprise applications, this complexity is inevitable because users perform an especially complex set of workflows. …