Reflecting on my first year at Google. — Google wasn’t exactly known for their design a decade ago. A lot has changed since then. I joined Google last year on the week of their 20th birthday. I was curious to see how design evolved for such an unconventional company. Looking back at the past year, here are 10…

Each week, I curate the best UX articles, design tools, and resources on my newsletter, UX Design Weekly. I went back and looked at the stats from the past year to find the best of the best. Here are the top links designers were reading and sharing in 2018. — …

As the year comes to an end, it’s always good to take time to reflect. I looked at the stats for the past 50 UX Design Weekly issues and filtered out the best of the best. It’s my hope that you’ll find a link or two that you might have…

To understand the people we are designing for, we must gain empathy for who they are and what is important to them. I recently attended a workshop by the folks at Empathy, a design firm focused on deep customer understanding. Our challenge was to enhance the shopping experience at 3rd…

I remember when I first heard of Design Inc. I was watching Marc Hemeon, live stream design portfolio reviews for his new startup. It was not only educational but also intriguing. …

Conversational UI. Design leadership. Invisible design. These were just some of the many UX themes and trends we saw this year. I went back and looked at the past UX Design Weekly issues, analyzed the thousands of UX articles, tools, resources, and media that I curated during the year, and…

When I saw the Zero Inbox animation by John Schlemmer, Motion Designer at Google, I loved the simplicity of it and the delight it brought to my face. I wanted to try to recreate a version of it using the popular interactive prototyping tool Framer and Sketch. Follow along to…

2015 saw Apple’s design criticized, designing beyond the web & mobile screen, even more prototyping tools (including sneak peeks from Adobe), and it seemed everyone started UX podcasts. I went back and looked at all the stats of past UX Design Weekly issues — over three thousand links and many…

10 Step-by-Step Tutorials — Designers often shy away from using Framer because it has a higher initial learning curve compared to other prototyping tools. This is because it’s based on code but that’s also what makes it so powerful and versatile — you can create detailed, high-fidelity interactions and animations that other tools can’t. …