Cultural Blind Spots in UX

Designing for international markets requires more than translating words.

Leading Design Research can be a Full Time Job (or not)

Design research specialization makes sense for a lot of teams.

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How to conduct a successful design studio

Before I get into how we at Nasdaq Design conduct design studios, I think it’s…

Achieve More Research, More Frequently

Try these approaches to convince your senior stakeholders to sign off on more design…

Why UX Designers Should Influence Customer Experience

Many successful designers are applying their methods, tools, and approaches to business challenges that stretch beyond making yet another app or website. We’re seeing this first hand when user experience designers are influencing, and in…

Organize all your design research in one place with Nasdaq Design’s Mosaiq

This past week our Nasdaq product design team rolled out an early release of our research asset management service we’re calling Mosaiq.

Enabling Design Influence at Scale

Increase your team’s reach and improve product quality & consistency by sharing design methods…

Data Experience Design Changes Product Development at Nasdaq

In 2016, Nasdaq’s search to add data expertise to the product design team led us to a hybrid role between data visualization and user experience design. We called this role “data experience designer.” If you’ve never heard of…

Prototyping: You’re Probably Doing it Wrong

Let me help.

To many, the design process is very intimidating because of the perception that design has to be perfect. In my experience, that is not the case. Design is like an iceberg, all the ugly and failed attempts…