7 steps to achieving flow in UX design

I checked the time about 3 times today. First at 12:31pm to see how long the Monday meeting would last, the second time around 4:43pm (realizing that I normally take my break a lot earlier but I wanted to keep working), and the end of the day at 5:20pm. By then I compiled a bunch of sketches, got valuable feedback, completed both the low and high fidelity design, all of which was ready to be tested.

Ironically, I was told at the end of the day that the task got deprioritized and there it goes again — to the Backlog. I’ve learned early in my career as a User…