Thoughts on User Experience

From CEO of UXPin and UX Manager at Nokaut.pl

Christmas Gifts for UX designers. Guideline.

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Nick Finck creates great Gift lists every year. This year I've decided to create additional list with some more personal choices. You can check whole list on UXPin Blog and here's graphic guideline made entirely for fun. Enjoy!

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Simplified UX Design Process

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UXPin App is finally in beta and soon will be launched as a part of complex UXPin System. Dream comes true. Tools for UX design created by UX designers! Hopefully that will amplify design processes all over the world.  We, UX designers, tend to have different approaches...

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Apple design philosophy and the great iMac

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This is something that I can't stop thinking of. Simple, though emotionally powerful solution. Read on and enjoy. "Topping off the design was the handle nestled into the iMac. It was more playful and semiotic than it was functional. This was a desktop computer; not many...

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Design Centered Organization Manifesto

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Principles for software development of well designed products In the time of high competition and overwhelming need to optimize business, focusing on design become weapon of rational choice. People expect products to provide the best user experience and we, designers...

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How to make valid design decisions?

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Design is a fragile thing. One change in the wrong direction and whole machine might stop working properly hurting user experience immediately. On the outside though design seems to be easy (in contrary to enginering). Anybody can do it right? Let's make all the decisions...

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Why UX designers love documenting?

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Old (ten years!) Agile Manifesto was aiming for destruction of documentation in creative projects. Or rather it was misread as a call for burning all the documentation. In fact Agile Manifesto only says that "comprehensive documentation" is worse than working software...

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UX design thinking - framework

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UX design seems to be often confused with 'making documentation for developers'. It's something completely different. I prepared this graphic to frame the idea of UX design thinking separated from 'the drawing part'. Design itself consists of the thinking part and the...

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Recession in the UX world?

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Recession is spreading all over the world. Most economists agree that the second part of this drama is already on and it won't get any nicer in the nearest future. Sounds pessimistic, right? We all know that recession happened in the past and it will happen in the future...

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Wirify and the problem of wireframes without content

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Recently Volkside - user experience studio based in Melbourne, introduced Wirify - nifty way of creating wireframes from existing websites. The idea is fresh and enjoyable, but the basic tenets are not something I could agree with. There are at least two fundamental...

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Marcin Treder

Marcin Treder

CEO of UXPin, UX manager, philosopher and almost-psychologist by education. On this blog I will give you, surprise, surprise, some thoughts on User Experience as a craft, work field, community and state of mind.

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