Design Review

By: Sofia Cababa Wood Depending on your perspective, I’ve been cursed or blessed with the eye of a designer. The curse is feeling terrorized by poor design (a bad type hierarchy will make me grumpy). But the blessing is that I have an ever-changing library of references of good customer…

25 Questions Concerning the Developer Experience (DX) — This post lists 25 questions to ask when reviewing the Developer Experience (DX) of an API. It groups them by the four DX pillars (functionality, stability, ease of use, clarity) from “What Is DX?” …

A proper Design Review is not based on the personal and subjective impressions or wishes of a particular Designer or Product owner/manager. Good design is based on a complex opinion of the target audience of the application and their wishes: whether the current design helped to achieve their goals and…

First and above all, it must be clarified that the Proper Design Review is not based on personal (or subjective) impressions influenced by a specific designer’s feelings, tastes, or opinions. A good design is defined by specific rules and opinions of the application’s target audience. These rules and UX research…

As UXers we are encouraged to solicit feedback as much as possible during the design process. Sometimes this doesn’t go down well. Loads of great designs go down the drain because we don’t structure our sessions thoughtfully enough. You’ve booked a design review and everyone is on the call. You’re…

⭐ The Bad, the Good, and the Learned Design reviews can be painful. I’ve been in design reviews where there wasn’t anyone moderating the feedback. It was unhinged, unfiltered, unproductive feedback that came from every direction where they asked the designer to explore everything except what they were trying to do. …

Product development is a complex process of bringing new products into the market. It involves making multiple decisions and choices by doing continuous market research, testing, product concept planning, etc. …

Announcing product reviews and design support for startups building on Celo — We’re excited to announce our partnership with the Celo Foundation to offer design reviews for startups building digital financial services on Celo. We want to help you build design thinking fluency, and brainstorm together on product design challenges you’re facing, to improve the overall user experience for new internet users — ultimately in service of designing web3 experiences that are inclusive, accessible and intuitive for last-mile users.

Have you ever experienced the disappointment of realizing you could have avoided a bug in your code had you known something earlier? I am guessing you have. We all have. Bugs are an inherent part of software development, but you can avoid some of them through the practice of Design…