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Jun 23, 2021

The fight against Dark Patterns is gathering steam

Update on what I’m doing which is basically a no update — I still haven’t progressed much on how I can contribute to the fight against Dark Patterns in a manner that’s more dedicated. However, since my last write-up regarding Dark Patterns significant work has been done on many levels and the movement is gaining steam. Here are some updates: Non-profit orgs: …

Dark Patterns

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Dark Patterns

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Published in UX Collective

·Updated May 27, 2021

UX’s role in the uniform state of web design

How it was like In the early to mid-2000s, back when I just starting to learn about the web and web technologies, the amount of new and creative websites that I was seeing was at its all-time high. Flash (and Dreamweaver) was all the rage back then, providing website designers a tool that was…

UX

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UX’s role in the uniform state of web design
UX’s role in the uniform state of web design
UX

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Published in Bootcamp

·Apr 29, 2021

Utilizing an assumption stack in product development

During a product’s development life-cycle its developers make a lot of assumptions — understandably so. There are many principles that we understand to be true, ideas we think that are true, and biases we want to be true. All of these are mixed in together on how a product is…

Product Management

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Utilizing an assumption stack in product development
Utilizing an assumption stack in product development
Product Management

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Mar 30, 2021

A simple change to familiarize your non-UX teams with your users

Ever since I learned and started creating User Personas for products I’ve wondered what are the most useful and efficient ways to have them integrated into development cycles. Note that there are many ways to do this — print-outs, wikis, etc. which works fine depending on the context. However, what…

User Personas

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A simple change to familiarize your non-UX teams with your users
A simple change to familiarize your non-UX teams with your users
User Personas

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Published in MLearning.ai

·Feb 24, 2021

The importance of UX in AI

Artificial Intelligence has captured our imagination since the invention of computers. Since its early days, we’ve put high expectations as to what it can do for us (think Jetsons) and to us (think Terminator 2). …

UX

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The importance of UX in AI
The importance of UX in AI
UX

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Published in UX Collective

·Jan 31, 2021

Reduce mental shotguns in your product’s experiences

What is a mental shotgun? we often compute much more than we want or need. I call this excess computation the mental shotgun — Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow Daniel Kahneman’s states in his book that we don’t have much control over how our brain makes sense of things — that it is pretty…

Product Design

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Reduce mental shotguns in your product’s experiences
Reduce mental shotguns in your product’s experiences
Product Design

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Published in UX Collective

·Sep 28, 2020

A “Good UX” does not simply impose a “Happy UX”

When we started as UX practitioners some of us had a notion that a good UX is something that provides a beautiful experience but just visually. Many of us came from designing UIs and frontend development which is likely a reason for that perception. Sometimes, this expectation does not only…

Ux Strategy

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A “Good UX” does not simply impose a “Happy UX”
A “Good UX” does not simply impose a “Happy UX”
Ux Strategy

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Published in UX Collective

·Aug 25, 2020

A practical view and application of psychographic segmentation in UX

Psychographic segmentation is a method that puts your audiences in categories that relate to their personalities and characteristics. This method is different from demographic segmentation because its data is not based on “hard evidence” e.g. age, place of birth but is based on subjective factors. …

UX

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A practical view and application of psychographic segmentation in UX
A practical view and application of psychographic segmentation in UX
UX

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Published in UX Collective

·Jul 20, 2020

My favorite books on UX, Product Design and Product Management

I majored in Computer Science and had Solaris and Java Tech as my elective specialty back in university but my love in the tech world started when I designed and developed my first website with just HTML and CSS using notepad. My first jobs were mainly web development work, mostly…

Product Design

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My favorite books on UX, Product Design and Product Management
My favorite books on UX, Product Design and Product Management
Product Design

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Published in UX Collective

·Jun 18, 2020

Our design assumptions and misconceptions

Tabula rasa — is the theory that individuals are born without built-in mental content and that therefore all knowledge comes from experience or perception. If you’re reading this, you are likely not a newborn individual. That implies that your mental content all came from your experiences and your histories and…

Design

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Our design assumptions and misconceptions
Our design assumptions and misconceptions
Design

7 min read

Yel Legaspi

Yel Legaspi

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UX & Product Designer. Santiago, Chile. www.yellegaspi.com

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