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

Mike Kuniavsky and me (Marcin Treder, UXPin CEO) at UXLX. User Experience is a lucky field and community. Our heroes are truly inspiring people. I had this impression for the first time when I’ve met Don Norman. I was impressed by his general wisdom that transcends knowledge and passion for great design. Every minute spent

You might have heard that our background is in user experience design and usability. We’ve spent years improving other companies products and damn… we love it. We’re obsessed with perfect experience and perfect products. No wonder that we started improvement of UXPin with classic usability study. Oh, we’ve learned a lot about our own mistakes.

After couple of very busy weeks, finally I have time to tell you next part of our San Francisco Story. I started to miss recalling UXPin’s awesome startup mission in USA and sharing it with you guys! Let’s go back to March 20th. Excited after meeting with Brandon Schauer (Adaptive Path) we were rushing through

Surprisingly sunny (good weather hardly happened during our stay in California) Monday morning. San Francisco was still rather sleepy after the weekend, but we were rushing through downtown in super-excited moods. We were about to meet Brandon Schauer – one of the most important people in the User Experience world. Experienced designer and manager, CEO

Great designers create many more artifacts and drafts of ideas that they actually use. Don’t ever stop at the first version of whatever you do. It came back to me with the great Bento Box no. 1 by LUXr. I’m trying out the box working on Customer Development for UXPin. First step in the LUXr

“Crap jobs are created by other people. Dream jobs you make yourself.” – picture above, originally from co-working space Rackspace is held by Jason Fraser, founder of LUXr (future of Lean UX). I love it, but as every rule it has certain exceptions. We had great jobs (UX folks at important eCommerce company). Nonetheless we

User Experience requires solicitous care and a thoughtful design process. Attention and emotions of people are fragile. Designing for them forces us to use sophisticated techniques. Let’s discuss today architecture of our design processes. Are wireframes, paper prototypes, cognitive walks through, qualitative studies, site maps, conceptual diagrams, etc. essential? Are you trying to sell as