New year — new project: “Life You Deserve” brings fun activities to 55+ in the UK 🇬🇧. I feel that a certain generation have been a little bit neglected, especially during these strange times 😷. I want to change that. They’ve been working hard and looking after their loved ones for many years. It’s time for them to have some time for themselves and enjoy plenty of hand-picked activities at lifeyoudeserve.co.uk

Do you know how many principles of good design Dieter Rams has defined? 80/20 rule in UX research? Or when the first GUI prototype was created? See how many design-related questions you can answer in The Design Quiz 🧠 — thedesignquiz.com

Remember Skeuomorphism was the coolest kid on the block back in 2000s. Having adopted Flat UI in 2010s it seems to be wearing off in 2020s. Is Neumorphism going to pick up? Visual design is like fashion — it comes and goes. Meet my new project — User Interface Museum — a collection of UIs of popular desktop and mobile apps showcasing how they’ve changed over numerous years. Plenty of examples of design successes and mistakes to learn from: userinterfacemuseum.com

We all like to critique design of websites. Yet we struggle to give many examples of what well-designed ones look like. Surely things aren’t all that bad, and Apple’s website isn’t the only one to look up to? I’m really excited to launch my new project — UXmeter —…

I am excited to share that the 5-day User Experience design course I’ve developed at The School of UX is now officially certified by The CPD Certification Service — an initiative to increase standards of career professional development provision to professionals. Looking forward to welcoming you at the next course and helping boost your career!

In UX industry it’s your portfolio that’ll do the talking for you rather than CV and certificates. Here are a few tips on how to design one that’s informative and relevant — all to boost your job prospects. Target your portfolio for each role There’s nothing worse than a UX designer’s portfolio that’s got a ton…

Having a process in UX and UI design helps to set a solid foundation for your work as a designer. — Here’s a brief breakdown of each of those steps, which you can implement within different organisations, from small startups to large corporations:

We creatives generally don’t seem to be too confident to talk about money. Yet we want to make sure we get rewarded for our hard work fairly (hey, those MacBook upgrades don’t come cheap, do they?). Market rates Rates in the UK vary from region to region (with those in London generally…

Sometimes you may need to take a full-size screenshot of a website (yours of your competitor’s). That’s useful for design reviews, or when you want to make a few design changes, see how they’d look (and A/B-test these versus the original) without changing the code. Yes, there are quite a…