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A product designed to satisfy everyone is not enough to create a memorable experience. The concept of peak experience highlights the importance of designing specifically for a target audience.The term "peak experience" usually describes the best part of an experience. Something like "the tarte tatin was to die for" in relation to a meal or "I was completely blown away by that reunion scene" as mi…

Great design starts with great understanding—if you know the real problems people have, you can build solutions that they love. So, how do you communicate who these people are, their needs, and the challenges they face? You can’t empathize with a 100-page research report. But you can empathize with a persona. When done right, personas don’t just represent your users—they unite your team, sharpen …

Learn from the best—design experts reveal exactly what they look for in a portfolio. Get ready to transform your career from aspiring designer to in-demand professional!In this video, design experts and hiring managers from across the world share their portfolio advice. Experts include the Creative Lead of Smashing Magazine, Vitaly Friedman, and Netflix’s Product Design Lead, Niwal Sheikh. Hear w…

Do you always end up being the person who sees the downside in other people's suggestions? Or perhaps you’re the one who has lots of ideas, and then must suffer when they are dissected and rehashed? In this video, you’ll learn how to use Edward de Bono’s six thinking hats method to try out different roles to see new perspectives in problem solving and creativity. The effect of taking on a role ca…

Are you struggling to showcase your best projects in your design portfolio because of NDAs? It's a common dilemma for designers. Let's look at some practical ways to talk about your work without breaking the rules and still highlighting your skills.In this video, Morgane Peng, Design Director at Societe Generale CIB, defined what Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDAs) are in the design industry.[[…

[[video:103]]Do you ever find yourself apologizing for an aspect of your personality, such as "if only I were more tidy" or "if only I were better at time management"? You often treat yourself in ways you would never treat your users―or anyone else for that matter. For your users, you try to design something which matches their needs and what they’re capable of doing. You should do the same for y…

[[video:113]] To-do lists are useful to help you prioritize and achieve goals you set out to reach within the following days or weeks, but they can also be daunting. They’re a constant reminder of what you have not yet done! In this video, you’ll learn how to re-imagine to-do lists: as a way to clear mental space, to celebrate what is already done or pinpoint what you don't need to worry about un…

[[video:84]] You might still wonder why it’s a good idea to spend your valuable time thinking about bad ideas? In this video, you’ll learn the three major reasons as to why it’s such a great idea to focus on bad ideas when you want to develop creative results and nurture a truly creative work environment for yourself and for your team.

Cognitive maps in UX show how users think about a product or service. Designers use these visual representations so they can understand the user's mental model—something that helps them make intuitive designs that match the user's expectations and improve their overall experience.Think about the last time you found yourself trying to use a confusing app or website—how frustrating was it? Maybe, y…

[[video:100]]To be creative, you must ensure you’re in an environment which nurtures your creativity. This goes both for personal creativity and for teams that do creative ideation work. The people who surround you and the space where you work have a major influence on whether you feel relaxed and free to ideate or stressed and scared to make a mistake. To ensure your environment supports creativ…

Working code now sits at the other end of a natural language prompt. AI is blurring the lines of your role, and that's a good thing. Master it now and expand what you can deliver: stronger deliverables that command higher freelance rates, or strategic contributions that make you indispensable to your team.While AI-generated code doesn't make you a developer, it does make you a designer who contro…

[[video:95]] Have you ever struggled to explain something which you easily know how to do? Performing the action is so familiar, and yet so hard to put into words. Or perhaps you’ve experienced the opposite phenomenon: you sketch and write to make a design problem clear to yourself… and you end up with a crystal-clear description of a solution which you didn’t think you had the knowledge needed t…

Today’s world relies on technology more than ever. Think about it: we use apps to order food, websites to book travel and smart devices to control our homes—and how we interact with these technologies has become a massive part of our daily lives. And the winds of change keep blowing as yet more sophisticated products continue to emerge to keep up with tech advancements and users’ expectations. Us…

[[video:102]] When you’re having an inspired moment where a wealth of ideas come to you, how do you capture them before you forget them? Before you think “Well, that’s what the voice recorder on my phone is for!”—let’s go a little deeper and look at “how” in another way as well. In this video, you’ll learn how to capture your ideas in a way that works for you and why it’s important not to elabora…

Are you an architect, or do you have a degree in architecture, but you feel that architecture may not be the right career path for you? If you’re in search of a new direction, UX design may be the career for you. There are countless paths to get to UX design, and architecture to UX is one of the most popular ones.In early 2022, we asked UX professionals from around the globe about their journey i…

At its core, UX design is about fulfilling user needs — whether by solving a problem or offering enjoyable experiences. Each deliverable you create contributes to these larger goals. The whole, however, is greater than the sum of the parts. In order to succeed as a UX designer, you’ll need more than the “hard skills” to churn out deliverables. The “soft” skills aren’t merely an optional add-on to…

Think about the last time you played a game you loved. You weren't trying to "complete a task" or "finish efficiently." You were playing for the pure pleasure of it. That's the fundamental difference you'll learn as a game UX designer: Designing not for productivity, but for joy.Imagine telling a traditional UX designer that you're going to deliberately slow users down, add obstacles they don't n…

You press jump. Mario soars through the air with perfect responsiveness, lands with a satisfying bounce, and you feel like you ARE Mario, not someone pushing buttons on a controller. That seamless connection between your input and the game world is physical presence, and when your players feel it, they forget they're playing a game at all.In this video, Celia Hodent, PhD, Game UX Strategist and A…

You haven't played Street Fighter in years. Someone hands you a controller and asks you to execute that combo you used to nail every time. You can't remember the button labels. You couldn'texplain the sequence if you tried. But your fingers? They remember. They execute the combo perfectly without conscious thought.That's the difference between explicit memory (facts that can fade fast without use…

UX design is a relatively new profession. You won’t find many 10-year-olds who respond “I want to be a UX designer” when asked what they want to be when they grow up. Fortunately, you don’t need to begin your professional career as a UX designer. The field of UX design is, funnily enough, like a cheesecake — ubiquitous, but there’s so much variation within it. There isn’t just one direction in UX…