Using AI in design, questions designers should be asking, storyboarding, and more UX this week
Here’s what’s trending in UX this week.
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How AI has started to impact our work as designers →
“The end is near”, according to specialists in robotics and artificial intelligence. Not really the end of the world itself, but the fact robots will be taking over a portion of jobs currently occupied by humans.
Uber’s self-driving cars, Amazon’s delivery drones, chatbots that replace customer service representatives — the robotic revolution is only getting started.
But what about designers? Are we in trouble? How are robots, artificial intelligence and machine learning technology going to affect our careers as designers in the near future?
Questions UX designers should be asking →
The ability to ask meaningful questions is a fundamental yet often overlooked skill in the UX Designer’s toolkit. By Garrett Kroll.
Super normal UX design →
In a world that becomes increasingly complex, simplicity is a quality which more than anything else is sought in design. By Thomas Schinabeck.
An analysis of the interactions on iOS 11 →
A design critique of the new gestures and interactions on the newest iOS. By Adhithya.
Beyond the cult of human-centered design →
The design industry’s reigning paradigm is in crisis. It’s time to evolve from human-centered design to humanity-centered design.
Storyboarding in UX design →
To come up with a proper design, UX designers use a lot of different research techniques. Here’s a deep dive into storyboarding.
The ignored obvious of UX design interviews →
Following these steps could partially eliminate surprises during a UX interview and establish practices that result in a smooth process. By Nishant Panchal.
Applying human-centered design to emerging technologies →
When you dream of the future, what do you see? Do you fantasize about hot words and utterance capture? Probably not. By IDEO.
How to make paper prototypes →
There are no rules for making paper prototypes — that is what’s great about it. By Ben Coleman.
A closer look at Google Calendar’s new design →
The Google calendar team’s approach to new feature discovery: a strategy for promoting new features without disrupting workflows. By Vivienne Kay.
News & Ideas
- Square just launched their own point of sale hardware
- Walmart will soon have robots roaming the aisles in 50 stores
- Google Poly is a free marketplace for 3D assets
- This startup offers a personal training lab for e-gamers
- Sony’s dog-robot Aibo has a new site
- This moving facade by Foster+Partners is a thing of beauty
- Project Disrupt: five days to create three brands people will love
- Here are some agencies that are turning into design schools
- How much consumers will use voice tech in the near future
- Muji’s anti-branding strategy, in 15 images
- New Digital School: a student-centered approach to digital design
Tools & Resources
- Talebook: an interactive UX research framework
- The Better Email: a guide to HTML email design and development
- Framer for web: resizable artboards for responsive designs
- Proto.io lets you prototype realistic apps for the iPhone X
- Wordmark lets you preview words with fonts on your computer
- Zeplin ↔ Figma integration is here
- Responsive Screenshots with the touch of a button
- Designer Lynx: tools, blogs and resources you should know about
- UX Deliverables: a comprehensive overview
- Oak app: meditation, breathing and wisdom
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Let’s talk about design portfolios →
Being always up to date on what’s produced by other designers in the industry is not only a unique opportunity, but a task I take very seriously, as I get to look at portfolios from all skill-sets and experience levels.
And yet… I would be lying if I said this task isn’t frustrating as well. Many portfolios have presentation or formatting issues that make evaluation harder and may entirely disqualify candidates, even when their design delivery is solid. By Daniel Fosco.
