Do UX Designers need a portfolio in 2021?
Spoiler alert, the short answer is yes, I think most UX designers need a portfolio to get recognition from potential employers or gigs. However this is an aging technique and hard it is becoming harder to stand out in all the noise.
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The first 'All-in-one' Design Sprint tool.
Facilitating Design Sprints is tough work. It is a delicate balancing act between keeping the design sprint team's rhythm. to capturing everything in one place, and making sense of everything at the end of the day.
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What happens after a Design Sprint?
This is a very commonly asked question on the interwebs as well as by anyone I have ever spoken to about design sprints. What happens after a design sprint is determined by how the validation or invalidation of the prototype went, and what user feedback you got out of the test.
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How to become a product designer in South Africa
I recently did a podcast on "How to be a Product Designer in South Africa". This has been something I have been meaning to talk about on the podcast and the blog. With all the UX/UI job descriptions I see every day and how they are just glorified graphic design jobs, the question is how do you make out the difference in UX/UI and Product design roles.
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What is a design sprint?
A design sprint is a 6 stage step by step framework for solving big problems as a team in just one week. The sprint helps teams answer critical business questions through design, prototyping, and testing ideas with customers.
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Why run a design sprint.
Design sprints are a great shortcut to gather qualitative feedback from customers fast using real prototypes. This approach works for any type of product, physical and digital products even business models and strategy.
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