Tag: design

Real design thinking: the value of keeping a reflective journal

Keeping track of your thinking processes across research and design projects may give you insights that will help you meet new challenges more effectively. (Previously published in UX Collective, May 17, 2021.) The philosopher George Santayana famously said that “those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” That’s perhaps the most useful and practical […]

Top twenty design books

Those clever people over at SMAPLY have put together an interesting list of ‘top twenty design books‘. I don’t agree with all their choices (where’s ‘Don’t Make Me Think’ by Steve Krug, for example?) but there are some crackers and some absolute classics here… Good to see the list includes Victor Papanek’s inspirational Design for […]