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I always loved conceptualizing and visualizing processes. And working with systems. All those have some effects for true collaboration.

The design profession has a critical job and that is to transition itself. We need to adopt a radical worldview that takes into account current world trends that disrupt our professional and personal lives in ways we cannot fully grasp just yet.

How to lead teams with care and trust. Recently I got to think a bit about design and leadership. I mean, to be totally honest I think a lot about design and leadership…

How design could evolve after the pandemic and why holistic design matters? With the pandemic disrupting our daily routines, many parts of our lives changed overnight. Actions and experiences once performed without much thought, now invoke fear in people’s minds as social distancing became a norm.

What is your purpose? Imagine this question in a job interview! It would pose a big WHAT(?) moment and make people think for some time before answering. However, every human being has a purpose. The thing that is a higher goal. To save the world? To do good? No matter...

Understanding the need for a multi-angled view of design in business. What is the value of design? This question is overwhelmingly bounced around, not only on social media like design twitter, but also in meetings, in product teams, and in companies’ strategic...

A research guide when starting a design system. Design systems are a hot topic right now. Everyone talks about them and wants to build them. It is evident that software has eaten the world, and design has a major role in this. Undoubtedly, design systems are a much...

Invision Studio is just around the corner. I got the early access, but I am supposed to keep it hush-hush for now. I have seen what it can do, and what it could potentially also be in the future. Last week I read an article on Fast Company, about Figma and their...

Everyone is talking about it. At the same time whenever everyone is talking about it, there is a lot of buzz and hype around it. That is great. But it should not take us away from the prime reason of Design Systems. They are here to serve as the single source of truth...

There are a lot of articles out there that will tell you how to become the best designer in the world! Some of them are probably pretty good. However this one… Well, this one is mine. Starting off, I will give you a bit of TL;DR. You will not learn here today the holy...

Every once in a while, the conversation about Everyone being a designer is bound to happen. This conversation reboots in uncertain patterns of time, but it sure frequents the lively Slacks, Twitter feeds, Medium articles… You name it. Then the crusaders of both sides...

2016 was the year where User Experience, and more generally Design, took a big fat seat at the C table. Yeah, of course it was not the first time this has happened ever, however this year everyone went crazy talking about design. Design thinking, user experience,...

User Experience is by far the best career choice I have made in my life. Sure, I am only 30 and sure, there is a big buzz around it, but is it all that bad? I mean, I see a lot of things around the digital product sphere that make me go meh(!) but there are some...

We can all agree that by definition and principle -at least theoretically, design is about solving problems. Specifically, User Experience strives for that human touch in complex technological advances. It is the extra detail that makes a product a bit more fun for...

The web has evolved exponentially since the ugly pages of the 90s. A website at a time, companies and designers figured out that hey, I can do this differently. Let’s try. We did try a lot, we still do. UX has not come into any final stage. Nor will it ever. It is a...