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Design for Emotion with Mindsets
Design for Emotion with Mindsets
How we used mindsets to design for emotion and meet our users’ needs
Workday Design
May 20, 2022
The ABCD of Systems Thinking
The ABCD of Systems Thinking
With the arrival and evolution of design systems, we discovered a new way of approaching business, engineering, and design problems.
Workday Design
Nov 5, 2020
Priority Guide with Intent: Analyze with Content Early
Priority Guide with Intent: Analyze with Content Early
Part 2 on how a priority guide can add value at any point in the design process
Workday Design
Oct 13, 2020
Priority Guide with Intent: Alignment through Content Early
Priority Guide with Intent: Alignment through Content Early
Part 1 on how infusing intent into a priority guide is a catalyst for effective design
Workday Design
Oct 6, 2020
Effective Design Communication in the Time of Zoom Fatigue
Effective Design Communication in the Time of Zoom Fatigue
A case for a design-led asynchronous communication evolution.
Workday Design
Sep 3, 2020
Optimizing Canvas Accessibility For a Changing World
Optimizing Canvas Accessibility For a Changing World
Canvas, Workday’s design system, enhances user experiences through promoting accessible design and code accessibility.
Workday Design
Aug 20, 2020
Building a Design System? Start with a Map
Building a Design System? Start with a Map
When building complex systems with many dependencies, a map is a great starting point for better understanding, alignment and optimization.
Workday Design
Aug 6, 2020
Baking Accessibility into Design at Workday
Baking Accessibility into Design at Workday
Workday has made strides baking accessibility into our products, starting with design. See what we’ve accomplished and where we’re going.
Workday Design
Jul 28, 2020
Play UX Games with Your Stakeholders, Win Empathy
Play UX Games with Your Stakeholders, Win Empathy
Learn how to engage non-UX stakeholders and build user empathy through game design
Workday Design
Jul 9, 2020
UX with Intent Frames: Design and Analyze with Content Early
UX with Intent Frames: Design and Analyze with Content Early
Shouldn’t everything in a wireframe have a purpose? Infuse intent into your designs with using a wireframe with no content, just…
Workday Design
Jun 2, 2020
Content Early Design: A Riff on Content First
Content Early Design: A Riff on Content First
Check out how language-based methods help you to design in lofi or analyze your designs to improve them.
Workday Design
Apr 21, 2020
3 Lessons from 100+ Design Interviews
3 Lessons from 100+ Design Interviews
What Workday’s Media team learned from filming a video series that took the time to listen to every member of Workday Design.
Workday Design
Mar 24, 2020
Visual Storytelling in UX with Storyboards
Visual Storytelling in UX with Storyboards
How to turn user stories into storyboards to make them more emotional, authentic, and clear.
Workday Design
Mar 10, 2020
Productizing Your Design System
Productizing Your Design System
Workday designer Mele Hamasaki and Creative Director Jesse Spencer discuss how to successfully turn your design system into a product.
Workday Design
Feb 25, 2020
Accessible Designs Make Better Products: Workday’s Story
Accessible Designs Make Better Products: Workday’s Story
How Workday’s Productivity Technology Design team learned to use accessible design practices to ensure we were designing fantastic…
Workday Design
Feb 11, 2020
Sketchnotes for Conferences: How to Stay Awake and Engaged
Sketchnotes for Conferences: How to Stay Awake and Engaged
A Workday UX designer talks about using sketchnotes to stay engaged during conferences.
Workday Design
Jan 9, 2020
The Special Sauce of UX Design Team Culture
The Special Sauce of UX Design Team Culture
What makes a UX great design team culture? A UX manager talks about the ingredients that make Workday’s design culture so special.
Workday Design
Nov 21, 2019
Researchers Managing Designers, Part 2: Insights on UX Design Management
Researchers Managing Designers, Part 2: Insights on UX Design Management
A researcher turned design manager offers insights on her journey and tips on how to manage a design team.
Workday Design
Oct 29, 2019
Design Systems are Everybody’s Business
Design Systems are Everybody’s Business
Workday Designer Alex Nichols encourages you to build design systems with your multiple audiences in mind.
Workday Design
Oct 24, 2019
How to Design the Ideal UX Meeting
How to Design the Ideal UX Meeting
How to pose great questions, offer solutions, and present your designs in just the right level of fidelity.
Workday Design
Aug 13, 2019
The UX of Currency Display — What’s in a $ Sign?
The UX of Currency Display — What’s in a $ Sign?
There’s more than meets the eye when it comes to how currency shows up in your UI. Symbols, codes, and values matter in a global product.
Workday Design
Jul 9, 2019
Unexpected UX Journeys: Interview with Taiwanese Animator Turned UX Designer Luping Yeh
Unexpected UX Journeys: Interview with Taiwanese Animator Turned UX Designer Luping Yeh
Learn how to break into UX from a Workday UX designer with a nontraditional UX background.
Workday Design
Jun 25, 2019
Researchers Managing Designers, Part 1: The Road Less Traveled
Researchers Managing Designers, Part 1: The Road Less Traveled
Transitioning from UX Researcher to Design Manager
Workday Design
Jun 18, 2019
How to Use Children’s Book Storytelling Techniques in Presentations
How to Use Children’s Book Storytelling Techniques in Presentations
How to use storytelling techniques in presentations to showcase your design work creatively
Workday Design
Jun 11, 2019
Establishing a Product Vision
Establishing a Product Vision
Creative tools to help you and your team create a thorough, useful UX product vision
Workday Design
May 28, 2019
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