UX / Product Design

by Nick Babich

This is how I actually do design quality assurance as a designer who never has the time to do it.

Forget Fancy Software, Empathy is Your Secret Weapon

Leaders from Stripe, Linear, and Figma explore how craft and beauty are core to product and business growth.

The technology we interact with daily should fold so seamlessly into our regular lives that we don’t know it's there.

The most valuable contribution product designers can make to software is making the core value of a product clear to the people using it. Yet over and over agai...

The concept of MVP is so ambiguous it leads to confusion in product design conversations.

What’s next when everything works fine?

I was drawn to Industrial designing because I wanted to solve everyday problems I encountered with daily objects. Though I’m still…

How the culture of dogfood shapes UX and fosters genuine user understanding.

The more you polish, the less you see

Some users abandon checkout if a site clears their credit card data when displaying form errors. Learn how to remain PCI compliant while retaining sensitive credit card data during checkout.

Creating a solid design foundation that won’t crumble as a product evolves

Lessons from Loom, Canva & Otter.ai.

User-friendly design is a fundamental aspect of UI and UX design, driven by a desire to make technology more accessible and usable for everyone. Over the years, designers have developed methodologies, best practices, and design principles to create interfaces that prioritize user needs and enhance usability. As technology continues to evolve, user-friendly design remains a

This approach to productivity allows you to build toward your goals little by little.

Dealing with non-design stakeholders can be tricky, I’ve outlined my take on the sweet spot between adapting and level-setting…

Explore the debate on coding for UX/UI designers, weighing pros and cons to decide if it’s a skill worth adding to your design toolkit.

How to keep UX maturity when discussing something that you stand for, and not slam the door after another useless meeting.

We get it, you live and breath UX, but you don’t need to be a party pooper 24/7

People blame copy when landing pages aren’t converting, but they forget about the design. Don’t make the same mistake.

Every day, product designers make lots of small decisions, from micro-decisions pertaining to minor design details to overarching project…

...to arrive somewhere more interesting

After finalizing and polishing their work in Figma, designers often expect developers to magically make sense of it. However, as that's not usually the case, things can end up looking pretty grim. What's going wrong?

Startup Humane has debuted their Ai Pin, an $800 wearable AI assistant meant to be something like a smartphone without a screen. First-wave tech reviewers are all over the thing, and the reviews have been damning. There's two main issues with this first-of-its-kind device. The first problem, according to

A multi-year design journey to rearchitect Teams from the ground up

10 ideas I’ve learned from Thinking Fast and Slow

To be a good designer, you must enhance your inner artist and showcase it in your proposals through emotional and visual design to connect and infuse soul into your proposals.

People claim to want unconventional solutions, but really, what they want is a sure thing that feels familiar

Don Norman explains gaps in human-centered design, throws shade at Apple, and believes we will save the world.