5 ways to warm up your brain

When we do workshops or co-creative sessions, we basically become meeting-room athletes that want to perform at their best. And just like athletes warm up their muscles, we can warm up our brains to ensure better or optimal performance. Of course a good night sleep, drinking…

Information Architecture: What Is It and Where Did it Come From?

The 4x4 Mini-Design Brief

A quick method to build a creative brief for small projects

I’m a huge fan of creating design briefs for every design project I do. It helps to focus efforts, clarifies different perspectives and if I work together with…

Lessons in Prototyping from Game Design

As a User Experience Designer, it’s required that I refer to prototyping and user testing at least 7 times a day. However, when it comes to building prototypes, it’s always a challenge to figure exactly what to prototype. Or even if the prototype will even be…

My product management toolkit (15): Storytelling

Storytelling is an important tool to have as part of your armour as a product person. This doesn’t mean that we should go around making stuff up, telling lies or sharing fables. In contrast, storytelling can be a very useful tool in any of the…

Learning about the highs and lows in user research

Sharing my key takeaways from the User Research for Everyone conference

User research continues to be an underrated practice within organisations. Organisations want the…