Recently I had an article about how you can explore colors on your own by starting with a subjective base color and step-by-step getting to an eye-pleasing full palette. That article was experimental and pure pleasure for some, but still many people reached out to me, mentioned being without access or knowledge of any design software. 🙃 I had to do something!!!

So I had a second thought about the topic and I decided to write an article about free color palette generators for those who want less methodology and dive straight into action, or simply doesn’t have the time…

I see you, you’re on nitro 🔥 Your brain is full of design thoughts about how you’re going to pull this project off. You’re energized to get started the brand, the platform, the poster, the website, the… but then you quickly realize, you have no colors yet. So how to pick some?!

Often in the design world we mention the jargon of ‘choice paralysis’ and probably — besides choosing typefaces 😂 — the color selection process is a daunting one, which makes the overwhelming situation so tangible to us. To ease this, I wanted to write an article about my…

I definitely suffer from the ‘new shiny object’ syndrome, it’s enough just looking at my side projects folder on my MacBook 😱. I’ve learnt through the years that I’m very impatient with these projects and I would like to see some results quickly, so I often fight with myself how far I would like to push them before showing the MVP to anyone.

Luckily to fulfill this, I’ve found many years ago the platform called ProductHunt — which became a household name for now — but I mostly used it for hunting down early projects about technology or business optimization…

Have you ever looked up ‘find UX jobs’ in Google image search? Well, surprisingly you can get images like this:

Unless you’re living under the rock or haven’t watched the news / social media in the last couple of weeks, then possibly you’ve heard about the new app craze called Clubhouse. This -currently- invitation-only beta app is built around the phenomenon of podcasts, but instead of inviting only one or a few guests on the stage, the various rooms within the app can “host” anybody to talk about a specific topic to share knowledge.

The clubs and rooms are originally organized around with heavy focus on the tech scene, funding, VC intros and entrepreneurship, but as the time passed new…

A couple of weeks ago I’ve published an article about UX salaries in Europe, and it was only a matter of time to finish my research to do the same, focusing on the US landscape this time.

After the first article I got bombarded with excitement and both disappointment, and I completely understand often the job market and the pandemic is not in everyone’s favor. I also made some mistakes which were all (mostly! 🤞) fixed to present the data, so dear reader you get a more refined piece thanks to all 10K+ eyes on the previous one.

Bear in…

The pandemic has put a lot of pressure on the job market and I’ve realized it myself by getting more messages every week through LinkedIn from unknown, but friendly people asking me about resources or simply opinion on their career situation. People trust me with their details — which I extremely appreciate — seeing that I’m on the UX field for years on my profile and also mentoring people at Designlab. …

As we’re still living the pandemic times and also because a lot of people took the lay-off as an opportunity for a career shift 💪, I got motivated to put together a little overview about UX salaries of the Old Continent to help others navigating through salary ranges and different cities.

Bear in mind this guide will not able to cover the ever-growing number of UX job titles, but I’ve picked the ones which are more generic everywhere or I could find a related data from Amsterdam to Warsaw back and forth.
Oh talking about data…

Methodology

Yes the elephant in…