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Critique vs Feedback: Knowing the difference Might Just Save Your Life™

Critique vs Feedback: Knowing the difference Might Just Save Your Life™

When I took over the Open Web Apps Ecosystem UX team at Mozilla, my team had lots of feedback and no critique. It lead to a lot of…
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Tony SantosMar 4

Real Designers Test

Usability testing is often considered the purview of “the research team” but if you’re designing things you should be testing them too. I’m…not saying that usability testing isn’t in the domain of a user research team, however I have heard many user researchers I respect complain that they are often bogged down with so much testing they rarely get to do any research. While I was running the Mozilla Open Web Apps Ecosystem UX team I worked with our fantastic Head of User Research to put in place a system that let the designers on my team, and later the designers on other teams across Mozilla, take the reigns of usability testing as…
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Tony SantosMar 4
You’re a better designer than you think

You’re a better designer than you think

Hey you. Yeah, you with the screen in front of your face. I want to tell you a secret…
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Tony SantosDec 19, 2015
Code like a designer

Code like a designer

Let’s put an end to this stupid argument, shall we?
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Tony SantosJun 16, 2015
You can learn a lot of design from a sandwich

You can learn a lot of design from a sandwich

You’re in your kitchen, making yourself a grilled cheese sandwich. A grilled cheese sandwich is more than just cheese and bread though, and…
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Tony SantosOct 30, 2015
Three ways to test your design’s blind spots

Three ways to test your design’s blind spots

The same way we do QA testing before we send things into the world, we need to test our designs to make sure we aren’t totally off the mark
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Tony SantosSep 23, 2014
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