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Lines of code for a Svelte app testing performance.

We built an app with Svelte. Here’s what we learned.

By Fabio Nobre Apr 8, 2021

Svelte, an open source Javascript framework, has both pros and cons when it comes to frontend development.

Designing digital products for Africa? Consider this first.

By Kelly Pedro Apr 1, 2021

The product development team must change their approach to create an experience that blends well with Africa’s population.

Topics: UX Design Our Craft UX Research UXWaterloo

Ren Navarro sitting on a counter surrounded by beer.

Reimagine, rebirth: How Ren Navarro took Beer. Diversity. digital

By Kelly Pedro Mar 25, 2021

In part two of our series, Ren Navarro talks about going from delivering in person talks about inclusion in the beer industry to serving it up in an app.

Topics: News Reimagine, Rebirth series

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How to share bite-sized user research highlights

By Jesse Hoek Mar 19, 2021

Sharing short snippets soon after a user interview or testing session is powerful. Here are some useful tools to share user research highlights remotely.

Topics: UX Design Our Craft UX Research

Reimagine, rebirth: How businesses are changing a year into the pandemic

By Kelly Pedro Mar 11, 2021

In our series kickoff, design ethnographer Kelly Goto talks about how she has been reinventing her approach to UX research in a remote world.

Topics: News Reimagine, Rebirth series

A hand holds a book open to a page about building a minimum desirable product.

Why ignoring survival metrics can kill your new product

By Kelly Pedro Mar 4, 2021

Survival metrics focus on product development and need partnership and speed, product consultant Adam Thomas said at the most recent ProductTank Waterloo.

Two silhouettes with purple LED light beams around them.

Duet: An app built for slow connection

By Kelly Pedro Feb 25, 2021

At the February uxWaterloo, design consultancy Quicksand Studios and interactive arts studio Invisible Flock talked about building the Duet app.

Topics: Our Craft UXWaterloo

Fluxible 2021 brings fresh faces, new experiences to the UX festival

By Kelly Pedro Feb 19, 2021

The 2021 edition of Fluxible, Canada’s UX Festival, will build on the success of last year’s Fluxible TV but expand to a week.

Topics: UX Design Fluxible

How a premortem analysis derisks a project, helping your team succeed

By Jeff Fedor Feb 11, 2021

When projects go wrong, we waste time figuring out what happened. But what if we did that first with a premortem analysis and assume the project fails?