A story about embracing uncertainty, which is essential in any innovation process that not only doesn’t avoid it but requires it. A story about the rising north star of intuition. Narrated through a Gestalt therapy perspective. — After a couple of years of active blogging (hah, I would like to think so, to be honest primarily passive), I can say that there is something special in the EOY times, with winter slowly ascending, that I feel inspired to sit down and put a few words together in…

How to approach and ultimately scale a proper interaction between a product and its users — Some time ago I was challenged with the task to enhance the product I was working on and make it more personalized for its users. The first thing that came to my mind was obvious — let’s build a dashboard and pull all custom data for each user there. That…

November and December passed in the good old spirit of wrapping things up for the passing year and planning activities for the upcoming one. On couple of occasions while trying to define the “next steps” for our pulse.eco initiative, we weren’t fully aware of what we wanted to focus on…

How to create better realistic use case scenarios by asking the question of “how” instead of “why” — As an active practitioner of many design methodologies, while trying to understand why people behave in a particular way, over the years, I came to the conclusion that I haven’t asked the right question. I gradually started to understand that it is more relatable when we talk about people instead…

While working on a product that needed to be branded in different colors, I took on the challenge which approach to follow to make the files easy to maintain with time. One approach would be to duplicate the master file each time I wanted to create a new instance of…

Design system theming based on Material design, that will work with both shape and text styles at the same time — We all have experienced the endless debates about how many colours we should have and use in our design systems. We start with the minimum number, and as we create components, we easily lose track of how many colours we end up using. Some might argue that we need only…

1. You are not designing for the bank, but for the end users of the wallet When it comes to designing mobile wallets, significant number of stakeholders are included in the decision making process. Therefore, due to many opinions, preferences and business goals being involved, it might get difficult in time to decide what is best for the user since the focus becomes slightly adjusted…

How negative space and line spacing are a key for a good design. — When it comes to UI design the easiest way to understand one is by identifying its components and how they visually appear. Many times, though, interfaces look very similar, but with a simple glimpse we could easily agree that some are just better and others leave the impression like…

When Material design updated their style of the text field I took on the challenge to update it on our already existing project as well. While there were already existing tips how you could create the new outlined text field I wanted to take…