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The design thinking and user research that turned into Microsoft Loop By Rachel Romano and John Roach Try the Loop app now: Microsoft Loop “Paradigm shift,” “revolutionize the future of,” and “sea change” are terms often heard in technology circles. Currently, this chorus is focused on innovation driven by large…

How to triage stakeholder feedback for better design outcomes — Ah, feedback — the necessary evil of the design process. Like a gift from your well-meaning grandparents, you have to accept it with a smile, even if it’s not quite what you were hoping for. While “how to ask for feedback” and “how to give feedback” have been done to…

Exploring the unique challenges of making changes within an open-source, volunteer-led environment. Plus: the importance of prototyping. — Hey, I’m Alex Hollender. For the past 5 years I’ve worked as a UX designer on the Readers Web team at the Wikimedia Foundation. Each designer at the foundation is part of a product team, and focuses on a different experience/platform (for example: there’s an Apps team that works on…

Three bitter truths and three recommendations for beginners — Let’s be honest: the life of a newbie designer right after university or courses is no fun. You are confused and repeatedly rejected. No one warned you about it while advertising the fantastic design world, but here you are. Of course, all the nice things will come. Later. I…

Your BAE might not give you space but after reading this article you will definitely give your UI objects some well-deserved space :p — When we start out as designers, spacing is often the most neglected aspect of the design process. Various objects are spaced based on what we, at that point, believe looks good. Well, I went through the same drill and a couple of years later, I see that it isn’t that…

Imagining an automated and intelligent system for the administrative team of North America’s largest hospitality union Note from UNITE HERE: UNITE HERE is excited to be selected as a partner organization to Carnegie Mellon University’s Human-Computer Interaction Institute and thrilled to work with CMU students on this project to modernize…

Sure, you know about consumer design (think social media, marketing websites, travel apps), the things you learned to design for in that school or boot camp and now have showcased in your portfolio. But there’s another design world focused on the enterprise, business to business, where products are crafted to…