Sitemap - 2024 - Data-Informed Design by Kai Wong
If you want to make progress with complex design problems, try creating hypotheses
Creativity lies in the constraints: why small-scale design innovation is best
Here's a free resource from my Maven course (next cohort January 6th)
Why asking questions is a vital part of growing as a designer
To design great products, you need to experience them firsthand early on
How to use grayscale: a quick way to check accessibility and visual design
How to help your team navigate Product Discovery and work with executives
Why simple UX stories are best: the power of clarifying ambiguity
How to use competitive evaluation to influence decision-makers
ROI isn't the best way to talk about the value of UX; behavior change is
Why building credibility is a critical part of growing as a designer
Why you shouldn’t be too eager to share your work
Don’t just drop design projects: The importance of aftercare as a designer
To communicate user insights more effectively, use the framework of pain relief
To persuade your team to look past quick wins, you need to understand the funnel
Life after Tech: Why Being a Design Imitator is Better
The Curse of Knowledge in design: a bias that distorts communication
Written communication is often the best thing for Junior Designers to learn
Focusing on your Design process is one of the worst strategies for your design portfolio
How Data-Informed Design can help you navigate these turbulent times
How to drive meaningful change with your user research presentations
Complex web design is an overlooked opportunity that needs designers
If you want to test the fundamentals of your design, take off your glasses
How writing advice helped me create a more focused design portfolio
How to deal with an Engineering team that is outpacing your designs
Want to learn how to get started with UX Storytelling? Learn Problem-Agitate-Solution
Design job seekers often fail to talk about impact. Here’s why that matters
The best way to use AI effectively as a designer is to delegate
How incorporating AI-based tools into your design process makes you a more efficient designer
The #1 skill I've needed to work in startups: jargon-free communication
How to survive the tricky design situation of the product vision change
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In Media Res: The best way to make your portfolio stand out
How to archive your design system effectively
One of the Easiest Ways to Improve as a Designer is to Get Better at Writing
Friction: The most essential time management process for designers
The Most Important Question in this Rough Job Market is "Who is Your Design Goal?"
The most critical lesson about Data: think indirectly
Why (Design) Iteration will become the most valuable skill in the age of AI
How to lay out your design portfolio to make your work stand out
Saying more with less: how designing maps helps you understand use cases
How to survive suddenly becoming a UX team of one
How translating user stories into value stories can drive action
How the king of usability became vulnerable to naive tech optimism
How to ensure your designs work if you can't access sample data
Want to convey how bad a user experience is? Talk about the user's emotion
To get interviewers to engage with your design portfolio, tell a story
How to make your design stories focused on your user's perspective
Benchmarking: how to provide valuable comparisons around UX research
How to avoid designing for current users at the expense of future ones
We misuse the term "user insight" a lot—here's how to actually use it
Are you boring your interviewer by over-explaining context?
Are you stopping one step short of driving change through user insights?
How effective Data Storytelling can allow you to design meaningful changes
An introvert designer's survival guide to how to work with Sales
How to grow as a designer if you're not getting good feedback
Show, not tell: How to make use of restricted or scrapped design work
Three small steps to ensure that your personas are kept up to date
To make the most out of user research, learn how to preserve your findings
How to pitch user research if your organization seems reluctant
How pre-testing questions help uncover user motivations for adopting a product
How junior designers can use ChatGPT without risking everyone’s trust
How to leverage storytelling to engage audiences with empathy quickly
Create growth experiments to persuade teams to invest in user-requested features
Get better responses from ChatGPT with example-based thinking