The 60–30–10 rule is one of the simplest guidelines for creating visually appealing and balanced designs. It provides a clear structure for colour distribution, making it easy to apply to any interface or design layout.
https://uxplanet.org/the-60-30-10-rule-a-simple-way-to-creating-catchy-user-interfaces-e9e2cf957213
Design, at its core, is user-centric, creative problem solving. A great design leader applies their knowledge and experience to the advantage of their organization, identifying and meeting the needs of its customers. The design leader must understand how the organization works, and have the ability to tie design initiatives to business strategy.
As the design landscape changes, the traditional Head of Design role is evolving to meet new challenges. Today’s design leaders aren’t just delivering products; they’re amplifying team impact, shaping an innovation-focused culture, and working closely with business leaders to align on strategy. This article unpacks the shift, illustrating how design leadership is moving from tactical execution to strategic influence, bringing fresh value to growing organizations. Explore what this means for the future of design teams and how these changes drive long-term success.
Our problem today is that there is no cohesive design strategy for business services delivered across digital channels. Digital products are designed for effectiveness, but the journeys that customers take across the digital-channel ecosystem are not. This is not just a customer-experience problem; it’s a business-value problem.
https://www.nngroup.com/articles/journey-centric-design/?ref=refind
There is no such thing as a universal product design process. Every org is different and uses the process that works best for its needs. Yet, it’s possible to establish a general set of actions that (with some alternations) work for many companies.
A North Star metric is essentially the single metric that every team in your entire company strives to achieve. It’s a customer-focused metric and should be one that if you hit it, you’ll be able to drive revenue growth and product success. It’s the key measurement that guides a company’s product strategy by clearly connecting customer value to business growth.
It's the job of a manager to know what their reports are up to, and whether they're doing a good job of it, and are generally effective. If they can't do that, then they themselves are ineffective, and *that* is the sort of thing that is the responsibility of THEIR manager, and so on up the line.
When it comes to digital product design, the goal is often to create an experience that guides users to make informed decisions efficiently and without unnecessary stress. The principles outlined in the article are important to achieving this objective.
One of the study’s more surprising findings was the link between HRV and brain connectivity, particularly during periods of rest. Higher heart rate variability, which typically indicates a better capacity to handle stress, was associated with more efficient communication between brain regions, especially in areas related to attention and memory.
Daily behaviors like sleep, exercise, and mood appear to affect brain connectivity for up to 15 days, suggesting that short-term habits have prolonged effects on brain function, with potential implications for personalized mental health treatments.
Whether you're aware of it or not, you have your own – it may be all in your head, in screenshots scattered around your desktop and phone, or collected in a shoebox under your bed. But these kinds of haphazard methods will only get you so far. A more intentional approach will quite simply help you generate better ideas.
Giving up, in other words, is usually thought of as a failure rather than a way of succeeding at something else. It is worth wondering to whom we believe we have to justify ourselves when we are giving up, or when we are determinedly not giving up.
https://www.themarginalian.org/2024/05/17/adam-phillips-giving-up/
