Finding the right design partner can mean the difference between a company who acts, innovates (and thrives) and a company who stagnates and dies in this rapidly changing landscape.
Wondering if a UX Audit is right for your B2B product? This will help!
Complex fiannce products are unique! Here’s what we’ve learned so far about designing products for the FinTech world, including common challenges and our tips to overcome them.
In data-heavy industries, it’s easy for software to feel overwhelming. Dashboards play the crucial role of congregating key information in a streamlined place. Whe...
A strong design culture is crucial for companies to stay relevant within ever increasing competitive pressure.
From adjusting wording to improving the flow and interactions, UX improvements aren't as far away at you think
If your tech product a perpetrator of bad UX? Examples of poor user experience design, and tips to make it right.
Error handling UX requires special thought, especially in enterprise software. They may take a variety of modalities, such as toasts, banners, modals, or in-line messages, and may even be mapped across multiple screens in a multi-faceted flow…
Visibility of System Status exposes cause-and-effect so that we can understand what the system is doing, and decide how we want to respond. The most basic ones look...
Enterprise UX has been defined here and there; mostly, this field as being focused on software people use at work. We use the term ‘software’ when describing what enterprise UX applies to because...
How do you know when it's time for a UX redesign? We dive into key indicators from a product, organizational, and user perspective that could be a sign that it's time...
Documenting your design rationale is the practice of writing and logging decisions related to the product or feature you’re working on—it works best for complex feature...
We as humans are too often in a rush, don’t read things through, or insist on knowing the way. I think we can all relate to at least one incident where we...
The design should speak the users’ language. Use words, phrases, and concepts familiar to the...
The design process uncovers many opportunities for businesses, whether that’s cost reduction or seizing new opportunities. In UX, discovery involves doing as much...
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...
While doing some research for this piece, I was barely surprised to see that the first page of results is exclusively about e-commerce filtering. Lots of...
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.
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...
In the absence of positive success feedback, people are at risk to assume the worst (a classic human move). Success, high fives, and affirmations are the...
Consistency is a crucial aspect of design because it addresses one of the main goals of design: reducing cognitive load and helping people complete their task. This is...
Spend your time and life force on actually working on your heuristic evaluation (instead of endless fiddling)!
In this article, we’ll go over the different artifacts of an enterprise-grade design system you may want for your organization...
Is this product broken? Or have you just forgotten to put in an informative empty state? Empty states are relevant across your UI at key moments throughout...
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...
Basically every consideration in interaction design happens for a drag and drop interaction. Not only do we have to effectively convey the interaction exists...
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...
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...
We often set out to design interactions with an idealistic mindset—we imagine users passing through our interface as we wish they would. We focus on the ‘happy...
Here at P&P, we talk a lot about our obsession with collaboration: how we work together is just as important as the work itself. We want to spotlight a fundamental rel...
Enterprise software runs the world. Take a moment to consider how nearly every aspect of your life is fuelled, behind the scenes, by complex domain-specific software...
Search deserves attention and care. Given that data is getting bigger and bigger and enterprise software is getting more powerful around serving up AI-generated insights...
An investment in user experience represents a level-up from good-enough-to-release standards which has lasting effects...
While it might seem like snooze-worthy work, prioritizing the practice of writing stuff down is well worth the effort. Design documentation is especially crucial when...
We talk a lot about how to grow as a UX designer, develop your skills...
Today, UX refers to an expansive field that covers both digital and analog experiences and whose practitioners can be involved in a wide range of activities across...
Is it just us, or do all resources about filtering UX revolve around e-commerce? It might be “easier” to document the ins and outs of an interaction where you have control over the...
So you have a shower thought. Instead of the usual pizza vs pasta debate, you’ve come up with a brilliant idea for a product that could really make its mark in..
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,...
Enterprise software companies regularly serve up large quantities of data to their users, making well designed table experiences are a priority. Before embarking on...
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
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...
Our team relies heavily on user research to validate workflows and iterate on features. During...
In the real world, when loading happens, you get the chance to reduce the perceived wait time for your user and increase the perceived value of your system...
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