When to test and when to leap: How I learned to trust my UX intuition

How to make good UX decisions quickly, even if you don’t have all the answers.

Slava Polonski, PhD
UX Collective
Published in
7 min readNov 5, 2023

--

A woman trusting her gut feeling finds a new way (illustration)
Trust your UX intuition (Source: Brandon Land for Dropbox Design)

Daring decisions in UX

In the vast world of UX and product design, we often find ourselves balancing on a tightrope. On one end, we have the plethora of research tools at our…

--

--

UX Research Lead @ Google Flights | 20% People+AI Guidebook | Forbes 30 Under 30 | PhD | Global Shaper & Expert @WEF | Prevsly @UniofOxford @Harvard