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The Metaverse: How It Can Be Shaped by UX Designs
Metaverse became a buzzword as Mark Zuckerberg made the announcement that Facebook would be renamed as Meta. All of a sudden, everybody is talking about the Metaverse, and everyone is looking forward to the new era. UX Connections is no exception as we are keen on tech and design. However, we as a UX design agency, would like to place focus on how UX can help in the development of…

Consultant Profile: Mae Foster
As a continuation of our series where we interview our own consultants, we recently spoke to the UX Connections team member who has worked on a multitude of projects for UX Connections. We spoke for a while about her journey to UX, where she finds inspiration, and her growing expertise in user research. Introducing, Mae. UX Connections Consultant Profile: Mae Foster from UX Connections on Vimeo. Where did your interest…

SEO and UX: A Brief Overview
In recent years, it has become increasingly clear that SEO is a ranking system that is constantly evolving. What was once a practice that involved using a never-ending amount of links, or making a dedicated keyword page, now involves a long list of factors to be taken into account – one of which is user experience. The UX of a website involves not only how it looks, but also how…

BT Skills For Tomorrow: The Customer Journey
On March 29th, our Managing Director, Chris Sainsbury, will take part in a LinkedIn Live in association with the Skills For Tomorrow video he made in collaboration with BT (watch that here). In the lead up to the exciting event, we want to share some of the key insights he gives, specifically those to do with the customer journey. The customer journey is defined by Chris as a way for…

BT Skills for Tomorrow Interview Featuring Chris Sainsbury
London – 18 February 2022. Chris Sainsbury, the founder and managing director of UX Connections, is featured in the latest interview of Skills for Tomorrow from BT, talking about customer journey with an eye to providing practical advice and helping businesses from a UX perspective. Skills for Tomorrow is a platform of BT that offers free courses to people who look to enhance their digital capability. It aims to assist in…

Life at Sea: The User Experience
UX Connections is proud to sponsor our advisor Guy Rigby’s attempt to row the Atlantic in the Entrepreneur Ship, in support of UnLtd helping social entrepreneurs. Although you may think of UX as a digital product and computer-based process, it can actually be applied to everything, even physical experiences. It exists in every aspect of our daily lives, and thus of course, in life at sea! As we are in…

Consultant Profile: Lisa Nordgren
As a continuation of our series where we interview our own consultants, we recently spoke to the UX Connections team member who has been part of the creation of our Gothenburg office. We spoke for a while about her journey to UX, how she is always improving as a designer, and much more. Read on to see what she had to say. Meet Lisa. UX Connections Consultant Profile: Lisa Nordgren…

UX Connections: Business Achievements 2021
As a final goodbye to 2021, we thought we would do a roundup of our biggest achievements over the past year. Sometimes, you don’t realise how far you’ve come without processing everything that you’ve achieved, and so we thought we would compile a list of some of the standout moments of the last twelve months. We can’t wait to see what 2022 will bring us, but we also see it…

UX Highlights 2021
When the world changed back in 2020, there was a shift in focus for a lot of us. Things that brought us so much stress and worry no longer mattered in the grand scheme of things, and it was more about using our time to learn new skills, find new hobbies and rediscover that childlike joy of our favourite things. Since a lot of our time is still spent inside…

Windows 11: The New and The Familiar
Microsoft’s new Windows upgrade is bringing a major interface redesign—but there’s more going under the hood than meets the eye.

Network Rail’s epic fail: come back when you’re not greyscale
Sometimes the most well-intentioned of acts can backfire. A poorly judged comment, taken out of context; a failure to ‘read the room;’ or simply being at the wrong place at the wrong time. All of these things can mean a person, or a brand, is left exposed or humiliated.

The Sounds of a Good UI
The ebullient tri-tone of a notification piquing curiosity. The swoosh confirming a sent email.

Google’s Mystery Operating System Gets Developer Access
The Silicon Valley giant brought its emergent operating system, Fuchsia, to GitHub under an open-source license

What are Best Practices in User Experience Design?
In this article we talk through core UX best practices to follow when working as a UX Designer

The Entanglement of Product Thinking and Problem Solving
Putting products first, and building meaningful solutions—is product thinking the essence of great UX design?

Augmented Reality in the Aerospace Industry: Setting Key Trends
Augmented reality (AR) is offering phenomenal opportunities where users can communicate with visually impressive overlays, merging the real world with digital data. The technology is tipped to disrupt the aerospace industry.

Combining Service Design and UX
People are the heart of services – Service Design is a multi-disciplinary methodology that enables a more holistic view of the design process. At UX Connections, we use a variety of design and research methods in our process to unveil ubiquitous actions to improve relations and the delivery of services.

How to conduct research for useful user personas
When executed correctly, Personas can offer a valuable insight into your product’s requirements, outline the behavioural patterns of your users and in some cases even change the trajectory of a project. In this two-part series we explore the process we recently used at UX Connections to create useful user personas for a multinational client. “Having gone out into the wide world to understand your users’ lives, motivations and environment, a big…

3 Handy UX Design Tips for Bloggers in 2020
A guide for bloggers to maximise their impact and wow readers

Understanding Service Design
In an age where customers are well aware of what good user experience is, how can Service Design help build services that match their expectations and are profitable for businesses?

Innovations in Voice Design
We recently attended the Innovations in Voice Design event, here are our main takeaways.

How to stop yourself becoming a ‘smartphone addict’
How can we move away from the smartphone and back to the real world?

Graphic Design: who is doing it well and how?
This short list of graphic design tenets will make sure you avoid some of the most unforgivable mistakes and discover who your graphic design icons should be when trying to deliver a clean, crisp and engaging UX.

What makes good UX design?
From apps to websites, devices to software: user experience can make or break a product. But how can you ensure your UX is good? Here’s our top UX tips.

UX Design of the Week – Pixel’s Always On Display
What is Pixel 2’s Always On Display and how will it help you be more productive? Small features can make a huge difference to user experience…

Messenger Lite: Does less equal a better user experience?
Connor James Ibbetson, Journalist Facebook Messenger is packed full of features. Stories, gifs, games, food, reactions – you name it, Messenger probably does it. But for those who just want to talk – could there be a better way? Facebook, like it or loathe it, it is a part of all our lives in one way or another. But a little known alternative Facebook app may offer respite to those…

UX Design of the week – the art of digital book browsing
This week, we found ourselves enchanted by the ease in which HAWRAF’s new design project made reading long passages online enjoyable.