Hello #Design network! I’m looking for my next design leadership role and would love to connect w/folks in product design.
20+ yrs in design, 4 in leadership. I've successfully helped early-stage, growth-stage, and enterprise tech clients build product design practices, scale their teams, and level up cross-functional collaboration. I've led discovery, vision, assessments, and transformations, empowering designers to be impactful partners in their orgs.
I've worn many hats while working in #ProductDesign, and I'm looking for a collaborative environment focused on learning with space for career development.
If you have opportunities, advice, or are open to chatting about what you've been up to, I'd love to hear from you. Thank you!
Does anyone have a good working definition of what an "intuitive interaction" a means? Not academically as such, think something usable as design principles.
I currently working with:
"An interaction is intuitive when it is learned and understood through the act of doing it once"
The key for me (I think) is in the "act of doing it" bit. Learned by doing and simple enough that's it's understood as you do it.
Here’s an interesting #keyboard I spotted. It’s a membrane keyboard for use in medical facilities. It’s completely flat and likely waterproof, and even includes a dedicated switch to disable the keys so you can wipe down its surface.
But here’s the thing—it features a flat image of a keyboard with raised keys. It’s a pure #skeuomorph. I’ve never seen anything like it.
🍕🚀 Your browser experience, just like your favorite pizza, should be fully customizable to suit your tastes. And at Vivaldi, your feedback is the secret sauce that makes it all possible! 🌟
But like any great recipe, sometimes the ingredients don't quite blend as intended.
After the release of Vivaldi 6.6 on Android, our efforts to unify menus and toolbars led to unintended consequences.
📝 Get a rundown of what happened after the release of Vivaldi 6.6 on Android, where we turned your feedback into meaningful action. 👇🏻
And by the way! When will I be able to disable this extremely inconvenient for many (on the forum wrote) update with a swipe? And at the same time, so I don't have to write twice, when will I be able to disable the side gestures "forward" and "back"? They overlap with system-wide android gestures and it turns out to be uncomfortable.
I could talk about expirience for hours. But... it wouldn't be a fun conversation.
For example, viewing, copying and exporting passwords in the browser is not locally protected in any way. All it takes is for a smartphone with an open lockscreen to fall into the hands of a clever crook for 10 minutes, and he will steal everything. And I won't even know it. Is it difficult to encrypt access to any password with a master password? Much less a full export of passwords in unencrypted form. I'm afraid to use such a password manager! It looks like a wallet with lots of holes in it.
When it comes to the growth of a company or product, it's both crucial and beneficial to remember the lessons learned from past blunders.
Take one Tech Giant's finger-pointing incident, for instance, where blaming their product users for a design flaw backfired spectacularly.
With Vivaldi, we take a different approach. Dive deep into how we prioritize feedback from people using our products and empower you to tailor your browsing experience to your unique preferences.
We believe our tech shouldn't dictate your browsing experience; it should adapt to you.
So, whether you're a minimalist or a power user, Vivaldi has something for everyone.
In any organization, many people share what they’d like to see as the intentions of the design.
As these people use their influence to define the outcome of the design, they are, in effect, designing. There’s an old saying, everyone thinks they are a designer. Well, everyone who participates in the rendering of their intention is a designer, using this definition.
Much like late-stage capitalism, late-stage UX is characterized by its market saturation, heavy focus on financial growth, commoditization, automation, and increased financialization. Corporations exert significant influence over the economy and society, and designers can only push so far when advocating for user needs. How can we navigate this landscape as designers in 2024?
So many Apple first-party apps with accidentally rounded corners revealed in screenshots. Such a weird property to get wrong. I wonder if it's truly an oversight or something to help with screen transition animations.
Throwaway prototyping is a software development approach that involves rapid creation of a prototype with the understanding that it will be discarded after use. The primary goal of throwaway prototyping is to provide a tangible representation of the app functionality early in the development process, allowing stakeholders to visualize and interact with the proposed system.
Love how the instructions for this Gotega USB cd drive say to plug directly into the back of the computer, but it has the shortest cord in existence... I can't even reach to put the drive on top of the tower or on the ground 🤬🤬talk about sh**y #productDesign
Warning: Rant
My husband and I are both left-handed.
There are approximately 708 million left-handers in the world.
Over 9% of people are left-handed.
Apparently these numbers do not meet the threshold for inclusion in product design.
My former Mr. Coffee coffeemaker had ambidextrous functionality. The flap over the water reservoir opened to the back, allowing someone to pour water easily from either side.
My new Mr. Coffee coffeemaker includes a design change. The flap over the water reservoir opens to the left, making it almost impossible for me pour water into it.
I just bought a new electric water kettle. The first time I filled it with water, I guessed at the fill limit because I saw no markings inside.
Then I read the instruction manual that referenced the maximum fill line. What? Turns out, I can only see the fill line markings if I fill the kettle while holding it in my right hand. 🤦♀️
If you are a product designer, you commit design malpractice if you fail to acknowledge the existence of left-handers.
Users are like kids at Christmas. They say they really want this one thing, but that one thing won’t keep them happy for long.
What will make them happy? Solving their unspoken problems, the problems they can’t quite articulate. And the best way uncover them is to ask really good questions.
Aww man, InVision is shutting down. Pour one on the ground for this design pioneer 🫗
Yes they stood still while Figma ate their lunch but I still remember how awesome it was back in the day to walk clients through clickable and shareable prototypes. Would totally blow their hair back. Gamechanger.