As a product designer, my first inclination was to start drawing up thumbnail variations that we could test with our users. However, there was no clear taxonomy of pipelines because every team within Pivotal has a drastically different pipeline configuration. We needed a quick way to test this design with “realistic” pipeline configurations at scale.Designing a Dashboard for Concourse
People can behave differently in user research than they do in real life. We need to be conscious of the way we design and run user research sessions and the way we interpret the results to take real-life behavior into account—and avoid interpretations that lead to a lot of unnecessary work and a negative impact on the user experience.What the Failure of New Coke Can Teach Us About User Research And Design
And that’s the end goal for biomimetic design: making products, systems, and cities functionally indistinguishable from the natural world. Life has been around on Earth for 3.8 billion years and designers are starting to realize that represents a lot of research and development time. The people who design our world have a lot to learn from the natural world — all they have to do is take a look.Biomimicry: How Designers Are Learning from the Natural World
Users don’t read web pages, they scan. Z-Shaped Pattern For Reading Web Content
