I think, especially after the recent initiatives by the big tech companies, no one is really asking whether it will happen or not... Meta (aka Facebook) has been pointing out for years in their annual Connect events that it is a matter of when and not if.

The successful play with history and legacy is apparent in the Office apps, but I fail to see that in Windows 11, apart from the remaining legacy features.

When business goals clash with user needs — In Agile software development, features and functionality planning is usually documented in the form of user stories. Ideally, a user story represents a user goal and an outcome, and is told from user’s point of view. This helps Agile teams to keep users at the center of the development process. …

A case study of worldbuilding using design fiction films — In my master’s thesis I submitted back in 2014, I explored the emerging creative practice called design fiction for the first time and questioned how design fiction artifacts can be used to spark and facilitate discussions about the future. With that purpose, I set up a roundtable and invited four…

How user stories can help — When committed to creating detailed prototypes in Figma, things can easily get messy, especially if you have all your frames within the same file. While I was designing a complex web app for managing annual salary reviews, I avoided this problem thanks to user stories.

Is platform exclusives the next big thing? — As the smartphone platforms have gotten closer in terms of customer experience and hardware capability over the last few years, we have arrived at where gaming consoles had arrived many years ago: platform exclusives. A brand new Instagram app It seems Apple has a new trick up its sleeve. Joining forces with Facebook, the tech…

Do you remember? — You launched your product and people seemed to have adopted it. The positive feedback have started to pour in, along with new feature requests here and there. Then the number of requests started to increase, because your users simply want to do more with your product and they can’t be…

Because there’s no such thing as UX design. — It did not occur to me until I read James Mingardi-Elliott’s article “There is no such thing as UX Design”. He brilliantly explained his reasoning behind why the term “UX design” doesn’t make sense and it resonated with me. UX Design as the name for Product Design made total sense…

How I designed a maglev train/Hyperloop hybrid when I was 12 years old — When I was a little kid, I used to be quite a scientist. I worked on ideas ranging from firefighting drones, smart car user interfaces to sci-fi dreams of teleportation and hoverboard. …