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Applying Design Thinking Principles for Career Development | Simplilearn

In the product design and development field, everyone has a distinct role to play. Some focus on product functionality, some on the user interface, and yet others on how to continu...

What critical thinking means for senior designers (and how to apply it)

Re-designing mocks is slowly becoming the bulk of design workContinue reading on UX Collective »

Two gears, one compass: designing at velocity while sustaining quality

How to build an AI-augmented design practice by leaning on 2 mindset shiftsIllustration by Roberlan Borges ParesquiDesign process isn’t dead — it’s conditionalThe claim “the design...

Design That Solves Problems

要件定義の停滞を具体像で突破　開発を着実に推し進めるプロトタイピングの実践

新しい価値を持つ製品開発では、要件定義の段階で議論が停滞しがちだ。本連載では、83Designが実践する「直感」と「論理」を使い分けるデザイン手法を紹介する。第1回は、具体像を用いたプロト...

Are you solving the wrong problem?

I cut my teeth getting grounded in principles of design thinking when I launched a strategic design MBA during my university teaching years. Design thinking is essentially a proble...

How to Think and Work Divergently – 4 Ideation Methods

[[video:78]] We can all become stuck when we need to think divergently and come up with lots of new and fresh ideas. Maybe you know your area so well that it’s hard to see it from...

How thinking and making shape the next gen of creatives

Choosing a creative career can feel overwhelming, but combining critical thinking with hands-on practice can help students prepare for the realities of the creative industries, wri...

The Unexpected Fields Where Design Thinking Is Becoming a Leadership Skill

Most designers have had a version of this experience: you’re explaining why a colour choice matters, why the hierarchy on a page guides the reader’s eye before they even register i...

Why Product Teams Need Rapid UX Research, Not Just Testing

Forward Deployed Designers: From FDE to FDD

Forward Deployed Engineers (FDE) can build powerful AI systems, but enterprise transformation requires more than technical deployment. Organizations need Forward Deployed Designers...

Can ‘Applied Creativity’ be the next ‘Design Thinking?’

In a January 2025 podcast episode, Open AI CEO Sam Altman was asked what the most important skill would be in the age of AI. His answer was—in simplest terms—the ability to ask cre...

Systems Thinking in Design: Uliana Salo, Platform Design Leader

Uliana Salo approaches design less as visual craft, and more as systems architecture. Having worked on creator ecosystems, large-scale consumer... The post Systems Thinking in Desi...

Discovery is a capability, not a phase

The judgment layer most discovery practice leaves unexploredImage created by Author using DALL-E 3You can measure what happened with a product after you released it. What most disc...

Designing in regulated industries

How to ship meaningful, human-centered design when the legal team has as much say as the userWhen compliance is part of basic anatomy of design. Co-created with AI by the author.Th...

Why systems thinking is becoming the most important UX skill

As apps become more context-aware, the designer’s job is shifting from shaping screens to shaping systems.Systems thinking — going beyond the screen. Image generated by AI.Apple ma...

Designing With Uncertainty: How AI Supercharges Probabilistic Thinking

In a world where AI is informing more design choices, it’s easy to mistake predictions for certainties. This article introduces Probabilistic Design, a mindset that allows UX and p...

User Focus Overview: Understanding Users

Somewhere between bulk demographic analyses and detailed anthropological studies lasting months or years lies the important and challenging area of user research. It’s challenging...

Design as a function

The future of design isn’t about pixels. It’s about function. And the organisations that figure that out first will be the ones that win.Continue reading on UX Collective »

From Research Recommendation to Clickable Mockup

Designing how designers master AI

Mastering an AI tool isn’t learning its correct use. It’s learning to bend it to how you already think — and that kind of mastery is personal, divergent, and never finished.Diagram...

Value creation: She spent 3 years as an old woman, your product team spent 3 hours

In 1979, a 26-year-old designer at Raymond Loewy Associates in New York raised her hand in a meeting and said something inconvenient. She had watched her arthritic grandmother stru...

Learn the lingo: Participatory Design

Participatory Design || What is it? Participatory design, also known as co-design, is an approach to design that brings customers and/or stakeholders and/or subject experts tog...

I Turned My Home Into a Design Lab and You Should Too

When you experiment with product designs at home, you receive invaluable feedback.