Pedro Oliveira talks about decolonizing design and how we can amplify the debate inside and outside the design community — There’s a while that decolonizing design is debated among academics and artists, and now, very recently, it started to pop into the design professionals bubbles, such as physical product designers, graphic designers, and slightly more often among digital product designers, UX, and UI designers. Being part of this community, it’s…

When we look at designers we admire, it’s funny how many times we try to mimic them. …

A few weeks ago, a new colleague reached me out asking what’s the best way to use our design system. Researching around the internet I found that many designers still have some questions about how to use a componentized system and still being creative when designing solutions for their projects…

A bit of what it's going so far and how I'm facing a completely new work environment. For those who don’t know, I’m a Brazilian designer living in Sweden have already one year and it’s very interesting how things are still new to me and how I miss my comfort…

We all lived that phase of arrogance, owners of opinions about anything. It’s part of what we are, I believe it’s a thing we just live and having these moments in our lives just state our hungry for more, a kind of ambition. But after some time we start to…

In our jobs we usually are focused on what apparently we were taught to do; design things. But we’ll face, during our career, moments where our most known skills won’t be the answer. …

WTF do you want to mean? It’s the same thing. Yes and No. — When we had the boom about User Experience last years, all of us were astonished; "Yes! That's it!". But do you already stopped to think if it really was discovered in the last 10, 20, 30 years? We used to use the UX (User Experience) expression to refer to digital…

I remember when I debuted at College. In Brazil we choose our course and study everything about it since our first day, and I really had no idea about exactly what design was. I've chosen Design as graduation because it was the closer course I knew about draw that wasn't…

Lemos muitas histórias sobre UI/UX e design de produto em startups de sucesso, empresas de tecnologia e desenvolvedoras de produtos digitais. Porém, quem está neste meio há algum tempo conhece os percalços que passamos até conseguirmos realizar grandes projetos. Por ser o tipo de pessoa apaixonada por novas ideias e…