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Developing UX/AI thinking for a new design world

Steven Spielberg’s movie reminded us of how far AI will bring us. UX/AI designers will remind us of our humanity in the designs of the…

Nov 21, 2023

Steven Spielberg’s movie reminded us of how far AI will bring us. UX/AI designers will remind us of our humanity in the designs of the future (image source: Yeo)

Nov 21, 2023

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The dark side of Figma’s Dev Mode

A cautionary tale of Figma and the series of events that led to its latest release at the Config23 Conference. Read to the end to see the…

Dec 8, 2023

The dark side of Figma’s Dev Mode: A cautionary tale of Figma and the series of events that led to its latest release in the Config23 Conference

Dec 8, 2023

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It’s time for design to think less and feel more

By embracing sensitivity over logic, designers can learn from old masters and create new solutions that reconnect to us being humans.

4d ago

We see a caricature of emotions as 5 faces in a customer satisfaction survey, missing out on an entire vocabulary of feelings, sensitivity, and emotional meaning. (Yeo, 2024)

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What UX can learn from 2024 Olympics fashion

The 2024 Summer Olympics is finally over, but we can apply contextual design into our practices.

Aug 18

Winners for best outfit at the Summer Olympics 2024: Mongolia, Haiti and Canada

Aug 18

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The evolution of attention

It’s not about designing alerts, but redesigning attention, resulting in 8 features capitalised by Duolingo.

Aug 1

Companies that deliberately learn from nature with radical observation can derive new features and innovation. Duolingo may have learned how to seize attention by learning from canaries. The Duolingo owl, Duo, is none other than our modern canary in the gold mine of education, where he does many tricks to get you to learn a new skill (image source: Yeo)

Aug 1

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Figma AI is going to change your design job applications

And it starts with your design portfolios.

Jul 12

The official release of Figma AI at Config 2024 in San Francisco. It is probably the start of a new era of how we think about creating UI. What will now matter to design managers when it comes to hiring. (image source: Figma)

Jul 12

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From small-c to big-C in creativity

Why creativity needs to happen across systems.

Aug 2

The Creative Systems Canvas is a tool that helps organisations identify where different types of creativity could exist to achieve a whole-system approach. At the centre of the canvas is culture, where norms of creative behaviour are formed within individuals and groups. (Yeo, 2024)

Aug 2

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Design fables: Bird in hand principle

Who you are, what you know, who you know.

Aug 2

The Bird in Hand Principle, part of Saras Sarasvathy’s effectuation theory, emphasizes leveraging one’s traits, knowledge, and networks to create opportunities. Success in design and entrepreneurship often arises from collaboration and utilizing immediate resources, as shown by the founders of Airbnb and Pinterest. (image source: Yeo, 2024)

Aug 2

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Design fable: the ducks in AI

About imposters, supercycles, debugging, and frameworks.

May 18

As designers, we need to steer into the skid in our lives. We need to navigate the currents, regardless how turbulent the waters are. We need to recognise that everyone is going through the same chaotic environment. Therefore, do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. (image source: Yeo)

May 18

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The power of story-making in Star Wars, Apple and AI

Storytelling has been around for a long time, but story-making is now grabbing our imaginations for the future.

Apr 25

From top left clockwise: Jensen Huang showcasing AI training with robotics; Steve Jobs unveiling the 1st iPhone; Sam Altman showing the audience how his first startup, Loopt, worked; the Industrial Light and Magic team creating special visual effects for Star Wars

Apr 25

Darren Yeo

Darren Yeo

Design Innovator | UX/AI | Humanity-Centered Designer | SystemOps | Rethinking Design, Redesigning Thinking | Living, Breathing Experience

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