UX

Four words a designer should never hear

I never ‘like’ any of the designs the SEEK UX team show me. I never ‘dislike’ them either…

3 UX tips to make your site feel faster

Waiting feels long. Waiting for 1 minute for a web page to load feels a lot longer than a 1-minute snooze after your alarm clock has gone off.

If you want a hug, just ask

One of the very best designers I've ever worked with was known to get into the office early, print off…

User Researchers Stink

I’ve just spent the better part of the last two weeks with Mimi, one of our Senior UX Researchers, out and about in Melbourne talking to jobseekers in their homes about the jobseeking process. I’ve had a lot of fun, I’ve learnt more than I could have imagined, and I’ve been reminded just…

Evangelising User Research — the Never-ending story

“I don’t care about User Research”.

From 226 to 10 — my favourite 10* Design reads of 2016

In a quiet moment last week, I took a moment to wade through my browser tabs (all 226 of them) and reflect on the articles from 2016 that I had read over and over again. These are the ones that have stuck in my mind, that have helped…

Why my design team meetings never start on time

Late last year, the UX team at SEEK took the rare occurrence of having all our SEEK employment designers in the office at the one time as an opportunity to head out for a team offsite, and I kicked things off late, as usual. There’s a good reason…

The dark side of efficiency

In the tech industry we pursue the elimination of waste as a modus operandi — it’s even been codified in the Lean Software Development movement. Inefficiencies hinder the cost-effective delivery of goods and services; certainly the pursuit of reducing these — making those goods…

In design, context is king

How two identical designs resulted in -37% and +257% change respectively in volume of link visits on the same site.

Four Chrome design tools I can’t live without

These are the four Chrome extensions any designer could…