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Data Informed UX design: 21 data tweaks to improve your UX design process

Data Informed UX design: 21 data tweaks to improve your UX design process

Data is an increasingly vital part of how we work. Here's 21 tips on how designers can incorporate it into their design process

2022

Christopher K Wong

Christopher K Wong

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in
UX Collective

How to use grayscale: a quick way to check accessibility and visual design

Using grayscale is a way to keep both accessibility and visual design in mind

23h ago

A twitter post that shows 4 different types of verification badges: legacy, business, government and affiliate. In grayscale, they look nearly identical.

23h ago

Kai Wong
in
UX Collective

How to help your team navigate Product Discovery and work with executives

It’s often tough to speak up during Product Discovery. Here are three questions to help.

Sep 3

A venn diagram where there are three circles overlapping: “Desirable” which emphasizes users, “Feasible” which emphasizes technology, and “Viable” which emphasizes busienss

Sep 3

Kai Wong
in
UX Collective

Why simple UX stories are best: the power of clarifying ambiguity

Why going back to basics can often be the best approach

Aug 27

An audience of adults sitting down, enraptured, listening to a child speak while standing

Aug 27

Kai Wong
in
UX Collective

How to use competitive evaluation to influence decision-makers

How comparing designs with competitors can persuade stubborn stakeholders

Aug 20

A diagram with two different things. Competitive Reviews shows an expert reviewing several different competitors in front of a desktop. Competitive Testing shows that same expert with a keyboard, watching a regular person use the desktop with competitor websites

Aug 20

Kai Wong
in
UX Collective

ROI isn’t the best way to talk about the value of UX; behavior change is

Justifying the value of your work through money isn't helpful

Aug 13

A graph that shows “Cost to Change” at 3 stages. At the definition stage, it costs 1x to fix. At Development, it costs 1.5–6x to fix, and then after release, it costs 60–100x to fix.

Aug 13

Kai Wong
in
UX Collective

Why building credibility is a critical part of growing as a designer

How to Influence without Authority, the Soft Skills that Will Advance Your Career

Aug 6

A small cub pointing in a direction and getting the large lion to look that particular way

Aug 6

Kai Wong
in
UX Collective

Why you shouldn’t be too eager to share your work

Designers often overshare when it’s not in their best interests to

Jul 30

A man holding up a finger to his lips and going “shush” to quiet a person

Jul 30

Kai Wong
in
UX Collective

Don’t just drop design projects: The importance of aftercare as a designer

How to grow as a designer and avoid portfolio headaches

Jul 23

A doctor talking with a smiling mother who is holding a baby that’s looking in the opposite direction.

Jul 23

Kai Wong
in
UX Collective

To communicate user insights more effectively, use the framework of pain relief

Show, don’t tell, how your design relieves user pains to influence decision-makers

Jul 16

A woman who’s slightly miserable, holding up an ice-pack to her cheek in an effort to relief pain

Jul 16

Kai Wong
in
UX Collective

To persuade your team to look past quick wins, you need to understand the funnel

How RICE prioritization and Funnel Analysis can help you re-prioritize design problems

Jul 9

A 2x2 matrix with the Y-axis saying User Value from low to high and the X-axis saying “Effort by Organization” going from High to Low. There are dots around some post-its to show people have voted on certain ideas.

Jul 9

Kai Wong

Kai Wong

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7xTop writer in UX Design. UX, Data Viz, and Data. Author of Data-Informed UX Design: https://tinyurl.com/2p83hkav. Substack: https://dataanddesign.substack.com

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