No time for usability testing is one of the most common complaints on design teams. Booking a formal test lab, recruiting a dozen participants, and running the whole thing over several weeks understandably feels overwhelming. But usability testing doesn’t need to be that heavy. It’s a well-established finding in the field that just five people … 더 읽기
A design decision log keeps a newly merged teammate from squinting at a screen that shipped six months ago and asking, “Why is this button here? Wouldn’t it feel more natural on the left?” Even the person who made that call often can’t recall the exact reasoning. Multiple options were weighed at the time, and … 더 읽기
If the words design critique alone are enough to make someone on your team tense up, the critique culture at that company has probably already drifted into something closer to a personal attack. A simple “I don’t think this works” can land as an assessment of the person, not the screen. Go too far the … 더 읽기
A user persona is usually born in a kickoff workshop, pinned to a conference room wall, and taken down again the day the project ships. “Min-jun Kim, 32, drinks iced Americanos, scrolls Instagram on the subway” sounds vivid and specific, but when a real decision is on the table, almost nobody goes back to reread … 더 읽기
Right after a user interview wraps, there’s a strange confidence that every hypothesis going in was correct. Read the transcript back, though, and it often turns out the questions themselves were doing the leading. “You’d say this feature is convenient, right?” isn’t a window into what the user actually thinks — it’s a tool for … 더 읽기
