It’s exciting to look at the possibility of incorporating AI into a product, but remember that the mere existence of AI will not automatically make everything better…
Here’s what we’ve learned so far about designing products for the FinTech world, including common challenges and our tips to overcome them.
To achieve truly great UX and see the ROI, you need to get many people on board with the UX mindset. This includes those closest to the product like developers, product managers...
Design debt and technical debt often go hand in hand, which can really throw a wrench into your team's speed. Even if you are rolling out new features quickly, you might find yourself in a tangled mess of inconsistencies, where different screens require a whole new mental model or interaction style.
In this article, we’ll go over the different artifacts of an enterprise-grade design system you may want for your organization. We’ll also review real scenarios that will best leverage a design system and how these artifacts can play a role in building your product.
In this article we’ll review pain points you might see when working without a design system, the ways a design system can help deliver products customers enjoy using, and some things to consider when starting a design system for your team.
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In our work at P&P, we need to adapt to different external teams and work within a wide variety of contexts and design maturity stages. This means we’ve got to have a robust system for selling and providing UX value, no matter the situation.
While we often associate "generative" to "creative" and the multimedia, music and art domains, generative AI is part of the much broader field of machine learning and actually encompasses a variety of less artistic use cases.
As a knowledge worker navigating complex and creative environments, you need a range of ways to communicate your ideas and collaborate effectively with your team.
Here at P&P, we talk a lot about our obsession with collaboration: how we work...
There are more ways to make UX design weird than there are ways to make...
While you might be new to this wide world of UX design, you’re likely not...
Fostering a positive and supportive company culture is a hot topic lately. Time and time...
Enterprise software runs the world. Take a moment to consider, nearly every aspect of your...
A new era of search is upon us! Let us designers and product folk move...
An investment in user experience represents a level-up from good-enough-to-release standards which has lasting effects...
As a UX designer, you’ve probably done plenty of specs and redlining, but you might...
Dashboards are the mother of all screens. In data-heavy industries, it’s easy for software to...
We talk a lot about how to grow as a UX designer, develop your skills...
Users should not have to wonder whether different words, situations, or actions mean the same...
The term User Experience (and its abbreviation “UX”) is a relatively new...
Spend your time and life force on actually working on your heuristic evaluation (instead of endless fiddling)!
Is it just us, or do all resources about filtering UX revolve...
Here’s a quiz: what’s the kind of UX that’s not web, mobile apps or things...
So you have a shower thought. Instead of the usual pizza vs pasta debate, you’ve...
Breadcrumbs in the UI sense are fascinating. On first inspection, breadcrumbs seem easy peasy, but...
Building a design portfolio is probably one of the most critical yet most time-consuming and,...
The user should have the ability to always undo actions, change their mind about decisions...
Tables tend to have a somewhat (undeserved) bad reputation...
The design should speak the users’ language. Use words, phrases, and concepts familiar to the...
When you talk to someone in real life, a multitude of cues inform...
Remember when we shared that “we embrace and are obsessed” with collaboration back in our...
In UX, ‘navigation’ includes all functionalities and visual cues that people use to orient themselves
This, my friends, is one of THE most involved and spiciest interaction challenges in the...
User interfaces, by and large are focused on the experience users perceive with their eyes...
These 10 usability heuristics are well-established in the design industry and form the basis of ...
Call it whatever you want, enterprise software AKA complex software AKA SAAS products, whichever is...
In the absence of positive success feedback people are at risk to assume the worst...
Is this product broken? Or have you just forgotten to put in an informative empty...
Consciously or unconsciously, you’re being influenced right this second. Taking in information and processing it...
Our job as designers, developers, QAs and product people is to make sure that the experiences...
While doing some research for this piece, I was barely...
Our team relies heavily on user research to validate workflows and iterate on features. During...
They say there’s nothing new under the sun, which is a bit of a downer...
On the Internet, loading is inevitable. There are so many factors at play that you...
We’re striding ahead at breakneck speed in all aspects of life these days. Maybe every...
Make no mistake, errors matter. What’s the most famous bad UX out there? An inscrutable...
Here in the P&P universe, we feel it’s important to be just as creative about...
A sub-optimal user experience was hindering this startup from scaling. They needed to find ways not just to improve the flow that was...
American author Fran Lebowitz once said: “Think before you speak, read before you think.” Around...
When we sat down with Amara Graham, Head of Developer Experience at Camunda, for a...
In our latest fireside chat with Miriam Suzanne, founder of Oddbird, we talk about the...
“Pixel perfect doesn’t mean it’s ‘done’. Things will feel different to use, look different in...
This article is part of a series that highlights some of the common challenges...
We all know that building enterprise software is hard – building excellent user experience...
Acme Co is a company much like any other. Its business revolves around software—...
Acme Co is a company much like any other. Its business revolves around software— ...
Acme Co is a company much like any other. Its business revolves around software—
The agency model for design, may or may not be ‘broken’, but...
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