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How to maximize delight in data visualizations

The use of time-space narrative and storybooks in Shopify’s Live View redesign

Nov 24, 2021

A screenshot of the Liveview data visualization dashboard, showing a globe in dark mode, with data such as visitors right now, total sales, and total orders.

Nov 24, 2021

Alëna Iouguina

The Origin of Design: Designing the future by understanding the past

Thinking about objects through time

Aug 7, 2017

The Origin of Design: Designing the future by understanding the past

Aug 7, 2017

Alëna Iouguina

Social Innovation or Natural Coevolution?

How biological models can help build antifragile societies

Feb 22, 2017

Social Innovation or Natural Coevolution?

Feb 22, 2017

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Shopify UX

Systems Design: Because everything* is systems

The Warning of the Doorknob

Feb 16, 2017

Systems Design: Because everything* is systems

Feb 16, 2017

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Shopify UX

Good things happen when a Product Manager pairs with a UX researcher

UX researchers are responsible for producing reliable insights that can guide product teams’ decisions. A good insight can help build…

Jan 17, 2017

Good things happen when a Product Manager pairs with a UX researcher

Jan 17, 2017

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Karma Police, arrest this man, he talks in maths: How to mix methods in UX research

Formulating a question and gathering data

May 18, 2016

Karma Police, arrest this man, he talks in maths: How to mix methods in UX research

May 18, 2016

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Shopify UX

Making a Murderer: Lessons for UX Research

I watched this documentary called Making a Murderer on Netflix, because pretty much everyone else already did. What I liked about it is…

Jan 13, 2016

Making a Murderer: Lessons for UX Research

Jan 13, 2016

Alëna Iouguina

AHFE 2015: Designing for/with People

Qassim Saad, a designer from Iraq now working in New Zealand, challenges his students to understand, analyze, and design the user…

Aug 31, 2015

AHFE 2015: Designing for/with People

Aug 31, 2015

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Shopify UX

Down the Grand Unknyewn

Kenn Davenport, one of the co-founders of KNYEW — a fashion boutique in Las Vegas — described his shop as a destination for those “who…

Aug 9, 2015

Down the Grand Unknyewn

Aug 9, 2015

Alëna Iouguina

Christmas Trees: Pine and PVC Needles

Generally ice or, rather, water, freezing at a below-zero temperature, increases in bulk when it solidifies. As a child, I was fascinated…

Dec 15, 2014

Christmas Trees: Pine and PVC Needles

Dec 15, 2014

Alëna Iouguina

Alëna Iouguina

Leading data experiences @shopify. Previously @klipfolio. Writing about systems, design, and data. I like bugs 🐜

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