Jake Causby: Flow, Feedback and Fast Iterations
Here’s the third of our series of UX Australia interviews. UX Australia is a conference about user experience that’s on in Brisbane this week. Jake Causby is speaking at the conference; here he gives...
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What Does a User-Centred Design Process Look Like?
We’ve discussed on this website before the importance of following a UX process in order to achieve a consistent outcome that delights our users and delivers them a memorable experience. But what does...
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UX Snapshot: An Interview With Ben Tollady
Lately we’ve been spending time interviewing UX Designers who we admire and respect, to get some insights into how they do what they do. Here’s an excerpt from our chat with Ben Tollady, from Thirst...
View ArticleSpeed Up Your Workflow With A UX Template
Ever feel like you’re reinventing the wheel on each project that you tackle? Perhaps you need to make use of some UX templates. Whether that’s a set of skeleton documents you’ve refined yourself over...
View ArticleHow To Apply UX In An Organisation New To User-centred Design
I once was subcontracted by a large corporate as the sole user experience designer in a team of designers and developers. This isn’t an unusual situation for a UXer, but this role came with unique...
View ArticleThe Story Behind the New UX Mastery Logo
If you’re reading this on the website, you may have noticed that today we completed stage one of rolling out the new design for UX Mastery. Other than a new logo, not a lot has changed—we still have a...
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“I went looking for a UX job the hard way, but won in the end : Ask Me...
If you’re struggling to find your way into a UX job, then I think you’ll find that Doug Collins is an inspirational guy. Ever since he crossed my path on the UX Mastery forums I’ve been fascinated by...
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7 reasons you should come to UX Australia 2016
Charge your tech and get your sketchpads ready because it’s not long now until UX Australia kicks off in Melbourne. It’s one of our favourite events on the UX calendar; for four days, user experience...
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The importance of being humbly confident: Learning to own your mistakes in...
Are you willing to admit to your mistakes on the job? It’s a complex dilemma when it comes to your UX career. The history of product design shows countless examples of misguided decisions. Apple’s...
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Transcript: “I went looking for a UX job the hard way, but won in the end” :...
Are you having a difficult or stressful time breaking into UX? If the answer is yes, I hope you didn’t miss our Slack AMA session earlier today. If you did, you missed Doug Collins dishing out some...
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Ask the UXperts: Using emotion and storymaking to build user experiences. —...
“Great customer experiences start with a story – the right story.” Donna Lichaw knows how to tell a good story. She’s built a business around helping organisations to optimise their digital products by...
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How UX designers can make work meaningful (and get paid well)
A commonly held belief is that ‘making meaningful work’ means slaving away at a non-profit and being broke all the time. The opposite of that is working at big tech company on projects that are well...
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Transcript: Ask the UXperts:Using emotion and storymaking to build user...
Storymaking (or storymapping) is cool. So is Donna Lichaw, as it turns out. They made for a killer combo in our Slack channel today, for the latest in our Ask the UXperts series. Donna did a bang up...
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“I use my strengths and weaknesses to add value to my team : Ask Me Anything.”
In today’s diverse landscape of work places and situations, finding a team that is a good cultural fit is as important as finding a job. Being able to define achievable team goals that work for every...
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The Harmony of Teams: A considered approach to making meaningful work...
At the end of 2012 Jo and I were professionally stuck. We were faced with a stark question about Apogee’s consulting work and the direction of the business going forward; What if UX was not really our...
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This job does exist: Persist to find your way in your UX career
During August, we started a conversation about making meaningful work. It kicked off with a thought-provoking ATU session with Dan Szuc, and continued throughout the month on our blog (catch up here,...
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Transcript: “I use my strengths and weaknesses to add value to my team : Ask...
In the latest of our signature Slack “Ask me Anything” chats, we talked about forming a cohesive team, personality traits, introverts, and remote working, among other things. We had the opportunity to...
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“I teach UXers how to create a persuasive portfolio” : Ask me Anything.
How to create a persuasive portfolio is a very popular topic in our UX Mastery community, so I have no doubt that our next Ask Me Anything session is going to be a busy one. Perhaps the most frequently...
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How to write participant screeners for better UX research results
One of the best ways to guarantee quality results from your user experience research is to recruit the right kind of people for your studies. While most websites and software products should be easy...
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10 Inspiring UX Portfolios
We have a lot of discussions about UX portfolios in the UX Mastery community. They range from debates over whether or not portfolios are important, to requests for feedback on portfolios-in-progress,...
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