A quick design challenge to design a recipe for a mobile application — The Brief While I have a certification in UX Design, I wanted to challenge myself and learn UI design as well. One of the best ways to learn is to do and I started to take on weekly Design Challenges. At first, I was scared at still tackled them as UX Design…

With a background in Interior Design & Architecture, I can’t help myself but to look back at architectural greats to pull inspiration. These following quotes relate to design across many disciplines. — “Form ever follows function” ― Louis Sullivan

Five sources to jumpstart your design — Pantone Connect We all know Pantone, the leaders in color trends, so this was an obvious pick. But I recently found out about Pantone Connect. A website, along with a mobile app, to help you create color palettes by working with premade or creating your own. The benefit of using the app…

A product designer’s look into why this app is so successful — As we all know, TikTok blew up over the last couple of months. Whether you heard about it through friends, other social media or the news (did people not know all social media collects your data? Whatever, that’s a whole other story), you can’t deny it’s popularity. It currently sits…

1. Peak-End Rule This heuristic evaluation states that a user judges their experience based on their feelings at two specific moments, not on their average feelings throughtout. The two key moments that they judge on are the most extreme (peak) and the end. 2. Fogg’s Behavior Model Motivation, ability and a successful trigger must all be aligned…

I am a User Experience Designer so I can’t help myself but to question antiquated systems. From the job seeker to the people on the hiring side, this process is a UX disaster. — let’s start from the job seeker’s perspective Right now job seekers have not been blessed with a booming economy we’ve seen in prior years. The competition is higher and the remote landscape allowed companies to expand their talent pool.

A book discovery app for foodies — Brief

I know, I know, I know… Snapchat gets a lot of slack already. With every redesign, there are articles after articles on how they got it wrong. I don’t want to sit here and bash it; that wouldn’t make much sense since here I am still using it every single…

What I learned after I started to treat it like a UX Design project first iteration Or let’s call it the first pancake. We all know that the first pancake is always your tester… and usually not the prettiest. My first attempt at designing my portfolio was a hurdle. As part of a bootcamp, we had a 5-week phase at the end to develop our own…