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Effective UX Design Strategies: A practical guide to human-centered design and agile UX implementation

Effective UX Design Strategies: A practical guide to human-centered design and agile UX implementation

Effective design is a strategic approach to creating useful, usable, and accessible products

2025

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AI + the age of choice

How AI should be used for less noise and more quality.

Aug 17

An illustration of a grid of lips in different shades of lipstick. Each pair of lips has a different phrase under it, playing off the color. The phrases are “Republic Ruby,” “Marriage Mauve,” “Catholic Coral,” “Ballot Blue,” “Pro-Life Peach,” “Liberty Lime,” “Autonomy Ash” and “Protestant Plum.” by Linda Huang

Aug 17

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UX scenarios + GenAI

Using AI for ideation, UX scenarios, and the value of world-building in UX design

Jun 6

A screenshot of figjam workshop board— Showing a User Persona along with a ux scenario followed by a couple of sketchs of smart mirror. Image were rendered by Visual Electric genAi and show a woman in her 50’s curly black hair standing infront of a smart mirror.

Jun 6

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AI + Hermes (speed) worship

Tech’s obsession with speed and how it has the potential to strip quality and craft in Design.

Apr 11

A screenshot of a sketch of Hermes running with 32 AI-generated versions of from the prompt “Greek God Hermes running through a busy new york city street during sunset with boots that have wings holding a caduceus staff.”

Apr 11

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A comprehensive list of human-computer interactions

A review of the opportunities with humans, computers, and software.

Apr 11

A comprehensive list of human-computer interactions

Apr 11

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Failing fast with AI

Why failing fast is essential to the era of AI-assisted design/dev prototyping.

Sep 26

Failing fast with AI

Sep 26

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Back of the TV (?) UX

Why Information Architecture (IA) and Sitemaps are essential to designing great user experiences and not always sexy artifacts.

Jul 24, 2024

An exploded technical diagram of the back of television (LG)

Jul 24, 2024

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Resources for improving your design leadership skills

Design leadership reading guide.

Apr 11

An illustration diagram of an Eames lounge chair and a bookshelf with design leadership titles. The learning happens through books but is applied to individual design work, teamwork, and organizational work.

Apr 11

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UX and the Feynman technique

How a teaching framework is valuable to UX.

Mar 19, 2024

A Procreate illustration of Richard Feynman standing in front of a whiteboard where he liked to lecture.

Mar 19, 2024

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Why lives in the deep

Using the Laddering Technique to deliver on the “Why” in User Research/UX/Product Design

Apr 11

A black and white illustration of the San Francisco bay and an underwater diver going deep in the water for a treasure box of “why”. The Why treasure is on the ocean floor 20'000 leagues beneath the surface. Ocean includes fish, an giant squid and the Nautilus from Jules Verns 20'000 leagues under the sea book.

Apr 11

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Facilitating fun

How UX helps teams collaborate and have more fun from the UXPA International Conference 2023.

Jul 7, 2023

André Breton, Jacqueline Lamba, Yves Tanguy ca. 1938 Courtesy Estate of Yves Tanguy- An assemblage / collage style exquisite corpse.

Jul 7, 2023

Chris R Becker

Chris R Becker

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Sr. Product/UX Designer, Educator, Author, Mentor, Parent, surfer, maker.

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