Ed Orozco – Medium

Ed Orozco

Pinned

Published in
UX Collective

Why most products today are meh

Lack of differentiation and over-optimization are running rampant. Here’s what designers can do about it.

Mar 4

A distribution chart in the style of an old radio dial. Image by Ed Orozco.

Mar 4

Pinned

Published in
UX Collective

Strategic UX research doesn’t need fancy tools

How to align your startup around what matters to your users

Sep 18, 2024

A mock of a Notion database entitled Customer Conversations, with fields for company name, person and conversation date.

Sep 18, 2024

Get an email whenever Ed Orozco publishes.

By signing up, you will create a Medium account if you don’t already have one. Review our Privacy Policy for more information about our privacy practices.

Medium sent you an email at to complete your subscription.

Published in
UX Collective

Maintaining a growth mindset

How the challenges of the design industry can fuel our passion for learning new skills

Oct 31, 2024

A Venn diagram where the left circle says “challenge” the right circle says “passion” and the intersection says “motivation”

Oct 31, 2024

Published in
UX Collective

How designers create alignment

Alignment is a design superpower that keeps teams focused and projects on track.

Oct 7, 2024

3 large dots aligned horizontally traversed by a dashed line.

Oct 7, 2024

Published in
UX Collective

Designing for velocity

The engine of product-market fit.

Aug 24, 2024

A black circle with an arrow pointing right to an orange circle.

Aug 24, 2024

Published in
Bootcamp

Design Principles for Complex Technical Products

3 Things I learned from a decade designing technical products

Mar 3, 2024

Design Principles for Complex Technical Products

Mar 3, 2024

Published in
Bootcamp

Why Default Settings Matter More Than You Think

People don’t change their default settings

Nov 12, 2023

A skeuomorphic icon with 3 slides and the words “default settings”

Nov 12, 2023

This is so true. IMHO most of these repetitive work should be automated.

It is unlikely that we'll be asking AI to "build me an onboarding. Rather, we should be asking the machine for 3 options to arrange this…

Apr 28, 2023

Apr 28, 2023

Fighting cognitive noise

Noise makes it hard to get stuff done

Mar 18, 2023

Fighting cognitive noise

Mar 18, 2023

Idea-to-action time (ITA)

A lot of things have to happen for an idea to make it into the real world.

Feb 20, 2023

Idea-to-action time (ITA)

Feb 20, 2023

Published in
UX Collective

In-file UX documentation

In-file, UX documentation is a layer of information that isn’t part of the design itself but helps everyone to understand it better.

Jan 29, 2023

In-file UX documentation

Jan 29, 2023

Fixing Font Issues in macOS

Getting rid of the annoying ‘name’ table usability error.

Jan 18, 2023

Fixing Font Issues in macOS

Jan 18, 2023

My Favorite Google Chrome Shortcuts for Mac

This is a collection of shortcuts and tricks I’ve gathered over the years. I use most of these on a daily basis to speed up my workflow.

Jan 15, 2023

Hand-drawn logos of Apple’s Finder and Google Chrome together with the symbols for Command, Shift and Alt

Jan 15, 2023

Published in
Prototypr

Why put dots in a virtual canvas

Why is it such a common design decision to use dotted canvases? And what is a digital canvas anyway?

Aug 23, 2022

Examples of grid layouts. Dots, squared and ruled — Ed Orozco

Aug 23, 2022

Published in
Bootcamp

Balancing cognitive load and discoverability

When less is usually —but not always— more

Apr 24, 2022

A comparison of flat vs staggered information architecture models — by Ed Orozco

Apr 24, 2022

Published in
Bootcamp

Speed, Consistency, and Scalability: The 3 Pillars of Design Systems

One of the most essential parts when trying to get organizational buy-in for a design system initiative is articulating the benefits it…

Mar 23, 2022

A cursor selecting screens an turning them into components — Illustration by Ed Orozco

Mar 23, 2022

Published in
UX Collective

Design dependencies & reusable flows in Figma

Modular flows that can be shared and reused across teams.

Mar 17, 2022

A sketch demonstrating the concept of reusable flows where separate modules combine into a single flow — by Ed Orozco.

Mar 17, 2022

Speed Up Your Design Workflow With Alfred

Alfred has some fantastic features for quickly searching files and launching apps, yet it can do so much more.

Mar 16, 2022

Speed Up Your Design Workflow With Alfred

Mar 16, 2022

Published in
UX Collective

About risk in product development

The further you’re into the product development cycle, the less you can affect its outcome

Mar 10, 2022

A line chart representing how capacity to reduce uncertainty and risk are inversely proportional — image by Ed Orozco

Mar 10, 2022

Build Your First Website Without Losing Your mind

It’s never been easier to build a website. It’s also never been more confusing to get started either.

Feb 27, 2022

A drawing depicting a website on a desktop window and a mobile phone. – Image by Ed Orozco

Feb 27, 2022

Ed Orozco

Ed Orozco

Design products people brag about using. · https://edorozco.beehiiv.com/

Lists

Workflows

2 stories1 save

Product

UI

2 stories1 save

Help
Status
About
Careers
Press
Blog
Privacy
Terms
Text to speech
Teams