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What is my infinite game?

I have a vision of the future I’m building. It’s not follower counts. — What are you driven by? What makes you wake up each morning with a smiling face? Sadly, not as many people have that opportunity, as many are forced to struggle to just survive in this new world and new economy. I worked hard over the last 20 years and I’m…

Motivation

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What is my infinite game?
What is my infinite game?

Aug 9

Most designers fail at this.

One crucial skill that a lot of juniors are not learning. — Mobile is the future! It sure is, but some junior designers take that a little bit too seriously. They start by learning mobile app design and then … stop there. The web is still here and it’s not going anywhere, even if it’s accessed more often on smaller displays. Most junior designers really struggle…

Web Design

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Most designers fail at this.
Most designers fail at this.

Jul 24

The UX of are you STUPID?

It’s more real than you think. — Become a UX designer they said! Make the world a better place for your users they said! and we believed them! Then reality hits you in the face like that bully at dodgeball in Junior High. You get selected for your first real UX job. Quite an achievement given how…

Design

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The UX of are you STUPID?
The UX of are you STUPID?

Jul 11

Will AI take your UX Job?

Can AI do UX better than humans? Can it learn? — For years there has been a joke floating around of a mythical “make design button” that project managers would press and boom, a design would instantly appear before their eyes. Of course the reality was that they did press a button, usually a send button in an angry email demanding…

UX

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Will AI take your UX Job?
Will AI take your UX Job?

Jul 7

Figma is using dark patterns to charge you more.

Are you being tricked and overcharged by them too? — Here’s how they do it! Let me start with stating that at hype4.com we use Sketch as our primary design tool for all our professional projects. However, because one particular client insisted, we purchased a paid Figma plan — just for that one specific project. We invited the three designers from hype4 that are going…

Figma

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Figma is using dark patterns to charge you more.
Figma is using dark patterns to charge you more.

Jul 4

Junior designers are f***?

Massive layoffs and paused hiring is sweeping the tech scene. — Recession. The recession has started, but for a while there the job market looked better than ever. Companies like Coinbase hired thousands of people in 2021 just to fire them in 2022 — someone had overestimated or are we heading into bad times for jobs? “What do you mean wages are…

Jobs

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Junior designers are f***?
Junior designers are f***?

Jul 1

Google UX Course 5 — Redesign the UI

I redesigned the Google UX Course’s Dog Walking app high-fidelity example — Last year I reviewed the Google UX Course on YouTube and the videos got quite popular. While I found some issues with naming conventions and a bit of unnecessary filler I quickly realised that even with all its flaws the Google UX Course is one of the best values for…

UX

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Google UX Course 5 — Redesign the UI
Google UX Course 5 — Redesign the UI

Jun 30

Heatmaps are a great research tool.

Exploring a new UX research and analytics tool. — Many designers are often struggling with the research part when writing their first case studies, or even working on their first real product. While there’s a lof of ways to do research, let me tell you about one we do every single time at hype4 when working on real, client…

UX

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Heatmaps are a great research tool.
Heatmaps are a great research tool.

Jun 8

Build out your designs yourself.

How Readymag can help designers transform ideas into reality. — I often talk about how freelancing is a great way to work, but it’s important to have an offer that solves the problems of your clients. That means that if they’re looking for a website design, they are likely also looking for someone to code it. Today I want to…

No Code

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Build out your designs yourself.
Build out your designs yourself.

Jun 6

Apple just challenged Figma.

A Free, built-in, multiplatform whiteboarding that can kill FigJam. — I wasn’t planning on writing anything about the WWDC Apple event this year, but near the end Apple dropped a true bomb. Something that’s relevant to all designers out there. So here we are. Apple has hinted on some collaborative features across their platforms before with SharePlay, first challenging companies…

WWDC

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Apple just challenged Figma.
Apple just challenged Figma.
Michal Malewicz

Michal Malewicz

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