Desi Reuben-Sealey, UXMC

Two Key Components To Levelling Up In User Experience (UX)

The Takeaway: To level up in User Experience (UX), two key components are curiosity and mindset change. Both mental skills are crucial for UX professionals. How? Let’s talk about it. Many will tell you that you need to increase your skill level and breadth of experience, as well as soft skills. All this is 100%

Many cars lined up beside each other. The cars represent different design processes.

What is more important Master: Many UX Design Processes or UX Methods and Activities?

What is more important Master: Many UX Design Processes or UX Methods and Activities? If you're trying to learn, double diamond, the IBM method and a whole lot more at the same time, I welcome you to read on.

UX design and COVID-19

Companies attitudes toward UX design and COVID-19 has changed. So has customer behaviour. Are companies keeping up? What can they do?

Is it OK to burn professional bridges?

Even though it depends on which bridge you may be burning I believe you should live by your professional principles most importantly. Sure some personal principles crossover but let’s call them professional principles for now. These are the principles that you live by, the principles that build or form your character. The things the people

UX – Good User Research and UX doesn’t always win

Even the best and most convincing User research doesn't always get a project moving in the right direction. There is a point where you have to realise that those companies, groups or people have to go through the process of failing before being ready to be helped.

The power of routine – which is best for your creativity?

I recently had a fellow professional on LinkedIn ask me this question “what would you say is the best preparation/routine in the morning in order to have a creative day? What are your thoughts on the power of routine?“. By the time I finished typing the response I realised that I really should be sharing

UX – Web Form Design mistakes not to make

The usability and design of web forms is not a new topic but it remains a relevant one. Why? Because there are still many sites out there that make the user experience that much more difficult for a web visitor. To strike a balance between a good and bad user experience when it comes to web forms is

UX – 5 Good User Experience Techniques for User Interface Design

Everyone has their own approach to User Interface Design (UID) and it can be very subjective. Technology, current trends, a targeted audience and more can have a strong influence on what the eventual design ends up being. Many designers (let’s flippantly put everyone all in the same hat for a brief moment – in advance I ask for

Techniques or Definitions User Experience Professionals should know and use

UX – Techniques or Definitions User Experience Professionals should use

What I mean by that is the techniques used by User Experience Professionals to gather the research and data that the deliverable is based upon. For example, individual interview techniques are not well suited for medium to larger groups of people. It’s not an effective use of thought process energy or time and it would take too

UX – Wireframes, Mockups and Prototypes

Unless you work in a purely creative environment such as a web agency you may have experienced this at some point in your career in User Experience. One of the biggest misconceptions and challenges fellow professionals can have in the office, in general, is how they incorrectly reference the tasks a UX designer does. Many times I’ve had people