Learn about 4 ways to avoid and minimize your organization’s design debt, based on the experience of Design Team Lead and Senior UX Designer, Michał Mazur. Design debt is, in simple words, all the good design concepts you skip in order to reach short-term goals for your product that will…

Rethinking Engage — a comprehensive analytics solution for HR in large companies. A brief story on how we approached the redesign and did not get lost in almost 130 screens. — The story was originally published on the EL Passion Blog. So, what is the product we redesigned? Betterworks Engage (back then known as Hyphen) is a successful product, which had been developed over 3 years of focused work from distributed teams. …

Part II of the story of how we designed a tailor-made PIM system for an Enterprise. In 6 weeks. — In PART I, we focused on the Strategy and UX Design phase in the process of designing a Product Information Management Platform (PIM). Our work triggered digital transformation on a company level. Now it’s time to connect the dots and unveil the full picture of what we actually managed to…

A story on how we designed a PIM system for an Enterprise. In 6 weeks. And in a user-centered way. — Digital transformation — where shall we start? No revolution starts without a spark. Especially a digital one. One of our clients, a leading clothing retailer from Norway, needed something special to excite the key stakeholders and the whole organisation at the dawn of the digital transformation. The retailer’s problem was fragmentation of systems they used for operations…

A few thoughts on how to avoid wasting time in remote collaboration. — Online meetings can quickly get out of control — in the end it’s something new to many of us (at least in such density). Standard meetings are short, however, there will be situations when you need to work through some bigger decisions together and host a remote workshop. …

After using the app in several projects, I want to share my personal favorites with you. — The role of workshops (actionable, highly structured meetings) in product development processes is essential, especially in cross-functional teams. Online workshopping is now more relevant than ever, for obvious reasons. When running a workshop in the office you can just grab a bunch of post-its and prep a room, but online……

A brief story on how our team approached a conceptual UX and UI redesign project for HBO’s primary VOD service. — HBO Max is an upcoming video on demand streaming service, set to release in the spring of 2020. Based on the two available HBO services released prior to Max, we decided to create a visually stunning concept design of our own, backed by user research and usability tests. The whole…

Leverage the power of collaboration to make strategy and design more efficient. — Many professionals are scared of meetings and I can fully understand that. Many meetings in corporate environments are run without a proper agenda and end up without any concrete outcomes. Essentially, a waste of time. Workshops, on the other hand, are structured meetings that serve a very specific function and…

Tips for a successful co-creation workshop for your next design project — Many business environments suffer from unproductive, toxic meetings, that last for hoooooours. If you’re just waiting to punch the clock at the end of the day, it’s probably a blessing when 5pm rolls around. …