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The Ambitious Designer

Random design, product, and AI musings from @richard.ux

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Designing AI with Purpose: The AI Intention Matrix

A powerful framework to help AI product teams build with clearer intent.

Unlocking the Power of Design Tokens to Create Dark Mode UI

Learn how to create multi-themed products using the three-tiered design tokens.

Designers Beware: Common Pitfalls to Avoid When Handling Feedback

How to triage stakeholder feedback for better design outcomes

Navigating New UI: How to Ease Users into Major Changes

Three techniques to help users transition: 1) progressive change, 2) highlighting benefits, and 3) tutorials and tour-tips

Interaction Costs Explained (Republished)

How to evaluate physical and mental interaction costs and improve user experience.

Ethical Alternatives to Revenue-Generating Dark Patterns

Avoiding Deception and Building Trust: The Power of Ethical Revenue Generation with Light Patterns

From Overwhelming to Intuitive: Effective Data Table Design

Designing the four goals of data tables: a comprehensive guide

The Future of User Interfaces: AI at the Forefront

Examining the current and future possibilities of recommendation AI, predictive AI, and adaptive AI.

How to Make Your Product Irresistible to Customers

Practical examples of creating more value through the components of the value equation

Jetpack to the Top: Advancing Your Career as a Product Designer

How to Master Product Thinking and Tackle Complex Projects

Unlocking the Power of Perceived Progress: Motivating Users Through Design

A list of UX concepts and examples for improving onboarding, checkout processes, and low-converting user flows.

How to Design Ethical Status Games on Social Platforms

How UX designers can leverage status games, social capital, and network effects in the design of social platforms.

How to Remove Features Without Pissing Off Users

Let’s talk about Feature Bloat, Time to Value, Aha Moments, Hyrum’s Law, and the Sunk Cost Fallacy

Intuitive UI = good feedback mechanisms

Understanding the importance of feedback and states in user interfaces.

Performance Design: The Illusion of Speed

Learn how the labor illusion and benevolent deception works to improve our perception of interface loading times.

The Most Practical Color Model for UI design: HSB

Part 1: An introduction to HSB color models - hue, saturation, and brightness.

How to Use the Hook Model for Maximum Stickiness (Retention)

Four elements to consider when evaluating product concepts part 4: Stickiness

How to Reduce “Time to Value” in order to Improve User Retention

Four elements to consider when evaluating product concepts part 3: Time to Value

How to Write a Headline that Hooks Customers

Four elements to consider when evaluating product concepts part 2: The Hook

Branding a New Product

How to create the minimum viable brand for a new startup