As a UXer for many years, it’s been very interesting to watch the evolution of UX, as the industry clamors for UX unicorns and traditional UX has been joined with visual design, UX strategy, marketing & business strategy, and data analysis and coding. Now, UXers need to get up to…

This is pretty easy, but it was a pain to figure out, due to an Adobe bug. Wanted to share it with all of you :) Take your AI file. Select File > Save as Web (Legacy). Save it as a GIF. Set the colors manually to 15. This is due to an Adobe bug wherein 4-bit is not available if you have more than 15 colors. (You can’t set the colors from PS) Open GIF in PS. Save it as a BMP — you should have 4-bit and 8-bit available.

So I used to be a tech writer, many moons ago :). In that vein, since I’ve found this issue particularly annoying, I wanted to share my solution with you. Unfortunately, in High Sierra, Apple has, in its infinite wisdom, removed the ability to set overscan and underscan on your…

This started off as just an article to help those digitalizing their SMB companies and even for those just establishing their first web presence, but ultimately became something that should be helpful for large companies as well. So, if you’re an SMB company, here are some things that will help…

As the world has moved towards the expectation of quick and continuous software delivery, UX has an important role to play in quickly bringing actionable qualitative and quantitative data, and overlaying this information on the customer journey to help drive product/service/platform decisions, growth, and strategy. …

This is an article about open offices. People think they’re all the rage, but actually, they originated quite some time ago, by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1939. There was a ceiling that let in natural light, tree-like columns, people didn’t want to go home! Quite a far cry from the…

I’ve gotten some pretty horrible data visualization examples lately from an analyst company that shall remain nameless. So, I started educating my people on what good data visualization looks like, how size and subtle colors and position are excellent ways to convey information without screaming it at them. If you’re…

In the past few months, I decided to take furthering my coding skills much more seriously. Before that, I’d done coding in HTML and CSS (including HTML5 and CSS3) and some JavaScript, but nothing very serious. I work in the UX field, so main drivers were that companies are demanding…

I made an infographic on this back when I was learning visual design — this is my remake today. The plight of the polar bear is still dire, and in the wise words of Dr. Seuss, “unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot — nothing is going to get better — it’s not…”