📰 3 DESIGN ARTICLES
GET BETTER FEEDBACK: A NEW APPROACH
- Author Tanja Hohenstatt lays the framework for a novel feedback approach, coined the CCROQ method. Through promoting open questions and active dialog, CCROQ seeks to create more effective cross functional communication.
- The CCROQ method considers how to give design feedback more critically. This can help promote understanding from all sides of a project, and avoid confusion or future roadblocks when work moves forward.
- “In an ideal world, feedback not only helps us improve a piece of work, a behavior, a skill, or competence, but most importantly, it helps us uncover blind spots.”
UNDERSTANDING DESIGN IN THE ATTENTION ECONOMY
- In this meditative article, designer Rachel Murray examines the ways that media and technology command our attention—often, in their opinion, at a detriment to our digital autonomy.
- From the Apple Watch to AI workplace surveillance, Murray questions how designers can create a digital landscape that is more responsible when it comes to collecting and using our data… while still doing their job.
- “If this system diverts attention and creates engagement to profit those in power, how can designers prevent that engagement when our work is centered on creating engagement?”
13 CONVERSATION DESIGN PIVOTERS SHARE THEIR STORIES
- Through a series of interview questions, 13 career changers from a range of backgrounds share how they made the move into conversation design, a field that shapes how humans engage with AI.
- While the designers came from vastly different prior paths, they all shared common keys to success: highly transferable skills, a deep interest in human interaction, and a commitment to learning something new.
- “I liken job hunting and the interviewing process to dating. It can get grueling and discouraging real fast. But the right role is worth waiting for.”
PORTFOLIO INSPIRATION 💜
UX Academy graduate Viktoria Mosijchuk uses a bright color palette and unique creative choices within her portfolio work. One example shows her revamp a site for a tattoo parlor, employing exciting font choices and a bold color scheme to bring the brand to life.
Got a portfolio you love that you’d like to share with our audience? Email your suggestions to hello@designlab.com.
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Design is intelligence made visible - Alina Wheeler
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