A UI engineer to me: "Can you teach me UX?"
— Vinish Garg (@vingar) December 15, 2021
Me: "Be prepared to learn journalism, politics, art, and be more difficult to work with."
When teams get into the mode that they are waiting for the instructions.
— Vinish Garg (@vingar) October 25, 2020
They: We have a design team of 40+ and we are designing incredible experiences for global enterprise solutions, and for growing startups.
— Vinish Garg (@vingar) December 26, 2019
Me: It is a myth.
They: Why?
Me: You cannot do it because you do not have a single content strategist or content designer in the team.
As if a life.
— Vinish Garg (@vingar) February 20, 2020
Many new products have a busy interface. Too many icons and inline actions to edit, assign, move, fix, reorganize, restructure!
There is a trade-off between "what they may need" and "what they need". #UX is all about identifying the small margins in trade-off.
I see many teams who talk about 'UX maturity' without a single content strategist around. One or two UX writers in the team is a such a one-dimensional way to process the UX maturity. Sorry. #design #uxdesign #contentstrategy
— Vinish Garg (@vingar) January 24, 2021
Build confidence to build conversations by being available, and by reaching out to others to understand, discuss, and then *document* the operating principles for how the org works, how the team works in core or certain situations, how the decision models shape up.
— Vinish Garg (@vingar) January 29, 2022
They: "Why we call it content design if it is about the words and language?"
— Vinish Garg (@vingar) January 17, 2022
Me: "Send me your project report, the plan, analysis, and steps in a single text file. Can you?"
Content is message, framing, communication. It needs to be structured and packaged. Content design.
Design for moments.
— Vinish Garg (@vingar) December 30, 2020
In design, users' goals are overrated. We design for
(a) what the customer might want to do
(b) what the org wants the customer to do
(c) what the customers might actually end up doing
Users live and interact for the moment, the goal is the natural outcome
When designers try to get into systems approach of designing, for strategy, leadership, or communication, I guess they need to get more into business side of design for a wider perspective of why org exists as a system. To communicate it to junior designers is a bit of challenge.
— Vinish Garg (@vingar) May 20, 2021