5 things UX professionals need to know about working for startups

Design handoffs are inefficient and painful. They cause frustration, friction and a lot of back and forth. Can we avoid them altogether? Of course we can! Let’s see how to do just that.

Anyone who has remotely worked in the digital product landscape must have heard some version of the phrase “design for stupid users.” On calls, in meetings and in our daily conversations — the idea of simplicity is propagated using dumbed-down phrases like these. But what does it mean to design for ‘dumb’ users and is it worth following this flavour of product design?

AI won’t replace designers, but designers who use AI will replace those who don’t.

Microsoft’s Notion competitor has futuristic Lego-like Office documents and its AI-powered Copilot assistant.

In this article, I will share my top 7 podcasts for Designers and one essential takeaway from each that has helped me.

It seems there is an exodus on the product market: product managers, product designers, data scientists, user researchers were let go en masse. As of this writing, there are more than 250.000 people let go from these roles, including Head Of User Research and similar positions of the biggest players.

Getting a job in UX design is tough, but one particular case study helped me stand out from the crowd. I designed a non-traditional learning app that teaches the Korean language using Korean media such as K-pop, K-drama, and K-webtoon with an emphasis on building a habit.

I have a lot of nostalgia for the era of blogging that I grew up with during the first decade or so of the 2000s.

In this three-part series, we’ll focus on the unique challenges (and opportunities!) people managers face today, and provide tips and tricks on how to solve them. For this installment, we’ll look at some simple tactics and tools to organize and motivate teams.