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Photo Credit: pelican via Compfight cc Product Manager vs. UX Designer I always advocate in favor of broad definition of User Experience Design practice. The one that contains not only UI design, but whole set of activities that lead to creation of a great product. Here’s the definition from my recent ebook UX Design for

Not so long ago (though in pre-UXPin times), I was working as UX Manager. That’s a great position to be. Taking care of interfaces intertwined with taking care of the team of talented designers. I was constantly thinking about skills great UX designers possess and ways of enhancing these skills among my people. Let me

Photo Credit: star5112 via Compfight cc Cloud App working, even if you’re offline Imagine this super scary situation: You’re working in you favorite cloud app (let say it’s a wireframing app). Suddenly…. BAM, you lost your Internet connection. The app stopped working and most probably you lost your data. That’s scary, right? We thought so.

Lean UX vs. Agile UX – in the kingdom of buzz words and acronyms User Experience Design world is a well established kingdom of acronyms and buzz words. UX, IxD, IA, UCD, CX, agile UX, lean UX, guerrilla research, strategic UX, Emotional design… we’re swimming in the sea of strange words risking catastrophe of miscommunication

2012 meant a huge increase in the number of customers for us, so it was by all means a very successful UXPin year! But with success comes responsibility*. Our customers have a wide range of needs and send more feedback than ever before (thank you!). However, we in the UXPin team hasn’t had the manpower

We’re dead serious about our plans of revolutionizing User Experience Design and to make it happen we need the best people to work with us. This month two great, experienced, advisors joined our Advisory Board. Big applause and warm welcome for Irene and Hiten! Irene Au – is a VP of Product and User Experience

UXPin is a revolution. We want to popularize responsible* approach to UX Design and empower web&mobile product teams with extraordinary force of dedicated UX tools. This is so exciting! Happily, you share this excitement with us. In just six months UXPin grew 500%! Thank you! UX Design App accelerates growth thanks to Lean Startup As

The growth of the User Experience Design field is breathtaking but well deserved. Thanks to UX Designers all over the world, the quality of products has increased dramatically. Design really does matter now. It’s a user-centric world in which there’s not only Apple on the scene anymore. Samsung gizmos look better than ever. Google has

We’re here to provide the value for the UX community! We believe – that’s the right thing to do and… we’re just starting. Below you’ll find first free course that we’ve created with DesignModo. The basic idea behind the series was to provide: solid (101 style) introduction to User Experience for beginners knoweldge refreshment for

Philosophy of Design The Design industry is a kingdom of philosophers. Our meta discussions are endless. We constantly try to define and re-define our own field. Decisive response to environmental change (like Agile and Lean) takes us literally years. And I love it. Meta discussions show that we deeply care about our jobs and give

UXPin was started by UX Designers and we deeply care for our field and community. Therefore from time to time, you’ll find on this blog our opinions on most important UX topics. Back in 2010 question „Can User Experience be designed?” became strangely popular. User Experience field, which really had just started to grow worldwide,

Liz Hubert wrote a blogpost on the bad role misunderstood Agile plays in a product development and in fact, why it’s wrong for User Experience (both as an outcome of UX Designer work – the product and as a community of UX Designers). This is a subject that I tried to address several times (including

“This is decade of User Experience Design”, we’ve heard that many times during meetings with inspiring people such as Dave McClure, Paul Singh, Hiten Shah, Brandon Schauer… The questions is though how to accelerate the good design. Most appropriate answer: by teaching people how to design. Who is supposed to teach them? You are. Start

You wouldn’t believe how surprised we were at the end of April in huge conference room at Ergo Arena in Gdansk. We thought UXPin is way too hermetic, rooted in the design world, to get any serious awards. Suddenly the hosts shouted out our company name: „The winner is UXPin!!!” and jaw-dropped or not we’ve

Soon after launch of first UXPin notepads, Bruno Figueiredo, contacted us to discuss sponsorship of the UXLX 2011. We were extremely surprised. UXLX? The conference that we couldn’t afford to go the year before? Wow. We were just starting with UXPin and we didn’t know back than that we’ll not only sponsor UXLX 2011, but