The last day of UXLx and the last set of my workshops — Designing Conversational UIs and Product Roadmapping. TL;DR both of them were great. Actually, workshops and talks at UXLx are usually of very high quality and this year was no exception. Designing Conversational UIs — Stacey Seronick “When testing conversation, try to use EXACTLY…

Main topics I saw floating through all the talks was behavioral design and change of culture. This tells me that we as UX designer are getting close to business people and we also feel responsible for leading and supporting the culture change in our companies. Some of my notes are…

The second day of UXLx had two workshop slots, and each slot has five workshops to select from. My notes from this day are from workshops about designing voice interfaces and discovering problems in the first phase of any project. Designing & prototyping voice interfaces — Ann Thyme-Gobbel „You need to help your users when they got lost…

“A service is something someone does for someone else that creates value for both.” — Jess McMullin Workshop summary Really nice approach to mapping user journey. We started with small cards with activities and with small dots we found. Having it on a table and not on post-its helped a lot with…

When we were defining a design system project, our goal was the usual one — to increase the speed and efficiency of our teams by improving consistency across our products. — Before we started creating the design system for Kiwi.com, we went looking for inspiration. One of the most inspiring sources was probably the public design systems from other companies. Some approaches to, for example, colors and typography were particularly appealing to us. We were amazed by the level of detailed…

(Updated July 2018) For the last three years, there have been a lot of sources with information about design systems. And it’s not easy to follow all of them so I created a short list that helps me not to miss interesting content. 1) Slack Design Systems This is probably one of the best…

A lot of UX people complain that they don’t have support from those higher up the chain. Actually, I was one of them for a decidedly long time. Then I realized something very important. We just keep gibbering about users, information architecture, heuristic evaluation or ethnographic research. We UX-ers have…

Last day workshops were pretty awesome and I finally share my notes from. Structure will be same as in previous articles — short summary and then list of things I want to remember or I felt that they are somehow important. User Story Mapping — Jeff Patton “Software development has been steered wrong by the word…

For me, this year talks were mostly about connections. I am not sure if UXLx folks planned this or if I just strengthen this feeling with my workshop selections. I saw this “red line” almost in all of the talks. What I mean with “connections”? It’s not about great opportunities…