10 Safe And Effective Ways To Test Your New Tech’s UX
User experience (UX) design—how the user feels about using a product—is an absolutely critical aspect of any tech a company produces. If the UX isn’t seamless, fast and intuitive, then…
How to Become Ridiculously Self-Aware in 20 Minutes
Four years ago my sister got me something that would dramatically alter the direction of my life. In fact, it was probably the most influential gift I’ve ever received. It…
Design Thinking for Challenges of Modern Businesses
While innovation is the key to staying competitive in the industry, this supposed “innovation” is too often only a reorganisation of an existing offer that sometimes fails altogether. Some would…
Airbnb Taught Me About Building a Company
In 2012, shortly after Airbnb acquired our startup, I overheard one of the co-founders (Joe Gebbia) giving guidance to a designer tasked with redesigning the home page. He said, “Build…
AI and Mobile App Experience
Imagining Artificial Intelligence in situations and use cases where there are a massive number of data in picture makes perfect sense. But what happens when the situation is entirely based…
Here’s How they did it, Black Hole
Of all the enigmatic phenomena in our universe, there’s perhaps one that has captured our attention and imagination the most, even though we had never actually seen one: the black…
Mistakes, We’ve Drawn a Few
At The Economist, we take data visualisation seriously. Every week we publish around 40 charts across print, the website and our apps. With every single one, we try our best…
If Screen Product Designers Designed Physical Products
In the past, when someone asked me what my profession was, I would usually say Product Designer. They would immediately ask me what kind of product. Furniture, airplanes, radios, headphones,…
Always Ask Why Five Times
Five Whys is a method used to look into the cause-and-effect of a problem. It consists of repeatedly asking the question “why?” until you get to the source of a…
UI/UX Patterns You Literally Cannot Design
Have you ever been in a situation where a product manager comes up to you with a seemingly new and fantastic product idea, that sounds something like, “…so then you…