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5 Signs Your Product Strategy Is Broken—and How Designers Can Help Fix It

A good product strategy aligns team efforts, cuts costs, and encourages long-lasting conflict resolution. Three Toptal product design experts discuss how product strategies get derailed and what designers can do to help get things back on track.

Now is not the time to cut corners on customer experience

As an economic downturn looms, companies are cutting back on CX design teams. That’s exactly the wrong move.

What Designers Can Do to Ensure a Smooth Design Handoff

If you are close or are finishing up your design after a series of iterations, then you are probably anticipating the next step—the design handoff. There are many ways to unsuccessfully pass along your designs to the development team.

Designing with Empathy: How Inclusivity Enhances User Experience (4 steps)

Inclusive design is the practice of “intentionally including the needs of users who likely experience exclusion in many aspects of their daily lives due to being part of an oppressed group or a statistical minority.”  

Designing the Overlooked Empty States – UX Best Practices

Empty states are a pause, not a dead end. Whether a user stumbles across an empty state due to first-use, accomplishment, or error, your product needs to guide them to the next logical step.

My favorite UI design books & why I love them

A curated list and review of my favorites

Amplify Your UX Research Impact Using Ideation Sessions

A senior UX researcher shares concrete tips for activating findings as a team, plus templates and resources to get you started.

Mind the AI gap*

UX keeps learning and working with AI tools to recognize any opportunity.

The UX Design Case Study That Got Me Hired

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.

Modern iOS Navigation Patterns

This page collects all the familiar navigation patterns for structuring iOS apps, like drill-downs, modals, pyramids, sequences, and more! Think of it as an unofficial bonus chapter for Apple’s Human Interface Guidelines, written by someone who cares deeply about well-crafted user interfaces.

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