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Kateryna Topol

Kateryna Topol

Research Principles for product design

Most people who work in product are familiar with the concept of Design Principles: in the words of Ideo these unifying elements “describe…

3 min readSep 15, 2020

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Research Principles for product design

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Kateryna Topol

Reflecting on working from home while living alone in social isolation

It has been 3 months in social-isolation but I started working from home a few months before the lockdown. Everyone has been going through…

4 min readJun 5, 2020

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Reflecting on working from home while living alone in social isolation

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Kateryna Topol

A few notes and thoughts on working from home

I’ve started a draft for this post a couple months ago but given the current situation and how many people now have to work from home…

5 min readMar 22, 2020

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A few notes and thoughts on working from home

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Kateryna Topol

When do you need a design system? Reflections on the Scaled by Design webinar

As a New Year resolution I’m trying to actually watch the webinars I sign up for and in order to make sure I pay attention it seemed…

3 min readJan 14, 2019

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When do you need a design system? Reflections on the Scaled by Design webinar

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Real talk about that MVP life from a designer’s perspective

As designers, we all dream of doing beautiful work that moves, has amazing photography and (shamelessly) wins awards. With the state of…

4 min readJan 10, 2019

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Real talk about that MVP life from a designer’s perspective

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UX Collective

Doing research abroad is all about preparation and anticipation

Earlier this year I’ve had an opportunity to do research in India for a digital product targeted at newcomers to Canada. The goal in a…

6 min readDec 28, 2018

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Doing research abroad is all about preparation and anticipation

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Kateryna Topol

A few learnings from a (very) bad user experience

The other day I was trying to buy a plane ticket for a small domestic airline in Colombia. Nearly an hour into the process my credit card…

3 min readSep 28, 2018

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A few learnings from a (very) bad user experience

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Kateryna Topol

Doing a pre-mortem can help you build a more resilient product

Pre-Mortem is a simple exercise that can help you identify and prevent future product pitfalls. The basic premise is trying to identify…

2 min readFeb 3, 2018

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Doing a pre-mortem can help you build a more resilient product

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Kateryna Topol
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Prototypr

Quick little list of user research tools

The internet is full of tools. Anything you need to build, brainstorm, write down, schedule, whatever it might be, there is a tool for it…

2 min readOct 25, 2017

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Quick little list of user research tools

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Kateryna Topol

Putting Design Thinking to work with the Wallet Project

Jack Welch (GE) once said: “An organization’s ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate…

3 min readSep 6, 2017

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Putting Design Thinking to work with the Wallet Project

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Kateryna Topol

Kateryna Topol

Freelance Design Director and researcher, founder and Editor-in-Chief of quipmag.com, and travel blogger at pathstotravel.com.

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