Process: Tools

This is a sample chapter from Daniel Schwarz’s book Jump Start Adobe XD. 2017 SitePoint.

Chapter 3 continues a tutorial that began in Chapter 2, “Learning the Basics with Low-Fidelity Prototyping.”

Chapter 3: Prototyping User Flows and Receiving Feedback

Now we have two screens in our design—a welcome screen with a search function and a location-filter screen with a list of recently selected locations. Let’s demonstrate how the user would flow from one screen to the other. This is the first time we’ll be switching to the prototype workspace, but it won’t be the last.

So we have more screens to work with, I’ve once again added another low-fidelity screen to the design. This is the screen that the user sees after selecting a type of food and a location where they’d like to eat—the Search Results screen. I’ve also downloaded and copied some temporary icons into the mockup. (We’ll learn about using vectors and iconography in Chapter 6.) Read More

When you’re participating in large stakeholder meetings, using analog UX strategy tools can often be a helpful and fun means of clarifying and working through a product, problem, user goals, or business goals. In this article, I’ll explain some benefits of using analog tools during large meetings and workshops, as well as how to encourage people’s participation and develop a shared understanding among everyone who is involved.

Discovering Analog Tools

From concept to execution, using hands-on tools throughout the UX design process can improve collaboration, communication, and the organization of your ideas in ways that digital tools cannot. For example, when kicking off a project, using simple sticky notes to post your ideas on a wall can offer huge benefits. In his book Change by Design, Tim Brown, CEO of the design and innovation company IDEO, recommends using sticky notes because they allow a group of people to agree on solutions when many possibilities exist. People bring their unique knowledge and expertise to the table, and using sticky notes lets you organize large amounts of information concisely, while keeping a meeting fun and interesting. Read More

More than 200 global UX professionals completed UserZoom’s second annual State of UX in the Enterprise survey. Overall, our research findings show that the state of enterprise User Experience is strong and growing stronger. Nevertheless, many enterprise organizations still face common challenges. The good news is that there are lots of opportunities for companies and their leadership to grow and drive User Experience in the enterprise to the next stage.

While other surveys over the past few years have looked at the state of User Experience as a whole and at UX design in particular, the state of User Experience in the enterprise had not yet been analyzed in depth or tracked longitudinally—particularly in regard to understanding how enterprise companies are conducting UX research. That’s why, in 2018, we conducted our first survey with hundreds of UX professionals at some of the largest global organizations to better understand the culture of UX research and state of User Experience in the enterprise. In 2019, we’ve conducted our survey again.

Now, let’s dig into the survey findings. Read More