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Articles by Andy McErlean
Design Process is a Myth - Marvel Blog
Typically, when a product design falls flat, people want to insert a design process to fix the bad design. However, much like the Ancient Psychic Tandem War Elephant, a one-size-fits-all design process does not exist. Don’t force a process on a design team that everyone must follow. Every designer has their own unique way of solving design problems.
Don’t let bad process or structure kill great design - Marvel Blog
Encouragement for UX Designers lost in bad process and structure. “Bad design is seldom caused by bad designers. Most often it’s bad organizational structure.” – Don Norman at DMI Conference Through several years of being a UX Designer in consulting/agency and in-house teams, I can confidently say I have seen great design be shut down because of bad structure and bad process.
Data-informed Design: Design Sprints at Shopify - Marvel Blog
Over the past few months at Shopify I’ve been running weekly design sprints to kick off new projects and features. If you haven’t heard of a design sprint before, it’s a 3–5 day collaboration of designers, developers, UX researchers, and content strategists where we work together to build several high-fidelity prototypes.
Designing User Interfaces for My Mother - Marvel Blog
It happens about once or twice a year. I travel over to my mother’s house for a visit and, about two or three hours in, she says something like “Hey, can you take a look at my computer? I just want to make sure everything is okay with it. You know I don’t know what I’m doing.” She wants to, though. And that’s what brings her and millions of people like her to the websites we create every day. They fumble frustratedly through signup forms, hidden gestures, and confusing interfaces.
Finding Your UX Mantra - Marvel Blog
It’s any given day. Your inbox is full of newsletters telling you about the fresh new ways to improve your forms or that a new UX technique earned loads of money for someone and so on. You’re excited right? You read the article and can’t wait to find a way of implementing it in your next project/sprint/meeting. But how does that tie in with the overall UX of the site?
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