UX Archives - Desi Reuben-Sealey, UXMC

Shawshank Redemption - Perfect storytelling

Posted in Personal Development, Strategy, User Experience

UX Storytelling: Skyrocket Conversions (Do This Now!)

UX isn't just about wireframes and user flows; it's a mindset, a way of approaching the world. And surprisingly, the core principles of UX can be powerful catalysts for personal growth, ultimately leading to a more fulfilling and successful UX career. Let's explore 6 life lessons gleaned from UX that can help you level up both professionally and personally.

Posted in Personal Development, User Experience

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%

Posted in Research, User Experience

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.

Posted in Design, User Experience

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

Posted in Design, Mockup, User Experience

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

Tough UX Challenges in User Experience you can overcome

Posted in Professionalism, User Experience

UX – 4 Tough Challenges in User Experience you can overcome

Ask anyone proficient in User Experience what they think the biggest challenge they face in their role is and you’ll get a myriad of different replies. User Experience of course focuses entirely on the user. Without the user, User Experience (UX) effectively becomes irrelevant. However with the insurmountable amount of products that are on sale today, they all have

Posted in Big Data, User Experience

UX – Quantifying Big Data with User Experience

This has long been a subject of mystery in the Big Data and Business Intelligence (BI) industry. How can you apply User Experience Design to Big Data? How can it be quantified? Almost all applications are created for a specific purpose. Openoffice, Microsoft Office and other similar programs are for creating different kinds of documents or