How UX was proclaimed dead (again), what do AI and Elon Musk have to do with it, and what poses a real threat to the discipline of design. — tl;dr: UX is a young discipline in flux, which many have pronounced dead, thanks to incompetent leadership diminishing its importance, common misconceptions about its role, and the ever–changing scope of responsibilities. In this article, I attempt to dissect the role of UX in the world dominated by AI and rockstar…

Outstanding write! It's truly a shame that designers are busy finding ways to increase revenue at any cost (at user's expense), and that design ethics turned into a pirate code. The practices that Amazon, SiriusXM, and others employ to deceive the user should be made illegal. Customers have a right…

Why Open Source is ugly (it isn’t), developers don’t like designers (they do), and we’ll never see a decent FOSS Figma alternative (we will). We love attractive things. Not only do they look good, but they tend to work better as well. We buy clothes that look good on us…

The short answer is no. The long answer is “yes, acquiring some basic coding skills might be a fun experience, but isn’t mandatory”. This article originally appeared on my website, openux.cc. We often come across job openings for UX Designer position with ridiculous requirements — some ask for exceptional coding…

How our creative engineering hackathon team attempted to come up with a simple and elegant solution for micro-businesses in emerging markets in 5 days. COVID impact on developing markets Coronavirus has crushed emerging markets: GDP in developing regions is to shrink by 2.5% this year, millions of people lost their jobs, and even the poorest…

How companies bridge the technological gap and deliver digital services for developing markets. Technology taken for granted How fast is your Internet at home? On mobile? Are you able to stream Netflix in 4K and watch YouTube in 8K? If you’re reading this article, I assume you’re not one of the 0.01% …

How to adapt your mindset and your product to digital life beyond the Great Firewall. Let’s begin with a quote from the research article by Jean-Claude Usunier and Nicolas Roulin published in the ‘International Journal of Business Communication’ in 2010: When companies have a definite home-country, with homogeneous employees in…