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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…