UI/UX without the mystical nonsense
A beginner’s guide to what UI and UX actually mean, how the process works and what makes a portfolio useful when you’re starting out.
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THINGS I’VE WRITTEN DOWN
Not pretending this is a publication. It’s a place for guides, useful resources and thoughts I keep coming back to while building things.
LONGER STUFF
Design, AI and learning tools
A practical list of things worth trying. Not 400 links. Just enough to get moving without spending three days choosing a tool.
Open the listGamified ranking and social behaviour
A short abstract looking at how rankings inside digital challenges can shape participation and social dynamics.
Read abstract ↗LinkedIn, unfortunately
Shorter notes, studio updates, product thoughts and whatever I was convinced was worth posting that week.
Open LinkedIn ↗QUICK NOTES
Good UI survives average copy
If the whole interface collapses because every sentence isn’t perfect, the structure probably wasn’t doing enough work.
Real constraints are free research
Budget, latency, old habits, weird users, bad Wi-Fi. Annoying, yes. Also usually where the product starts becoming real.
Automate the boring middle
The best AI workflow is often not replacing the expert. It is deleting the fifteen repetitive steps around the expert.
Show the decision
Pretty screens are evidence that you can make pretty screens. The interesting bit is why this screen exists and why it looks like this one.
Consistency beats cleverness
One brilliant launch idea is nice. A hundred small interactions that all feel like the same company is harder and more valuable.
Ship the ugly internal tool
If five people use it every day and it saves them ten minutes, it can earn the redesign later.
ONE BOOKMARK I KEEP OPENING
Nick Kolenda’s resource library is still one of the better rabbit holes for marketing psychology, behaviour and design. Take the useful bits, ignore the urge to turn every cognitive bias into a growth hack.