If design principles are for designs, then design values are for designers
Design principles. They are the essential ingredients behind the execution of every good design. Each designer and design team establishes…
Atomic design 2022: what we can learn from Eames and other design giants
As designers, we stand on the shoulders of giants, looking down at the marvelous works they have created. One giant of our times is Brad…
Faith by Design
The logo you see above was a design I did for my former family church, Hope Baptist Church, about a decade ago. The visual inspiration…
The slap UX: Will Smith, Chris Rock and behavioural design
The drama. The debate. The depravity. These are 2 well acclaimed men, who had every achievement on their belts. One of them happened to…
An overview of Spaceship Earth
When was the last time you felt a sense of awe? Better known as the Overview Effect, astronauts have reportedly experienced a mental…
Start designing user trails instead of user journeys
A user journey map is the bread and butter artefact to any designer, whether they are in UX/UI, service or systems. Packed with…
Writing UX pilish poem on π day
Pi day, which is held on every 14th March (3.14), is a day to let the inner geek out. One particular activity is to write Pilish or Piem…
3 new roles of designers in non-design teams
As a young design student, I was exposed to the world of design where it took a design maverick to come out with wonderful designs from a…
5 other ways a UX team can use their Kanban boards
It was like a Coffee meet Bagel moment when I approached Kanban for the first time. I knew of its existence, but did not take the…
6 learnings as a UX Chapter Lead in a world leading airlines
Someone once said to me that working in the airlines was “magical”. I couldn’t agree more. But what made it stupendous was the opportunity…
9 reasons why designers ought to take up a good dose of design challenges
It was late July 2020 as I looked at the OpenIDEO email, calling for entries to the new design challenge to redesign the single-use…
UX designer, you’re not listening
If what I say sounds unfair, insulting or offensive to you, then perhaps you have misunderstood. This has been a mental note for me not to…