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Overconfidence vs. User Testing

As designers we may sometimes fall in the engineering mindset of solving multiple issues with the least elements possible. This is actually not a bad practice. …

Design

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Overconfidence vs. User Testing
Overconfidence vs. User Testing
Design

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Aug 11, 2021

Design Systems. Coherence vs. Consistency

I was presented with this nice dichotomy recently, and after having browsed around to get a glimpse of the online debate I must say that I can't take any sides on it. Let me elaborate. Consistency in a design system is what you would see in a system that is…

Design Process

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Design Systems. Coherence vs. Consistency
Design Systems. Coherence vs. Consistency
Design Process

6 min read


Feb 23, 2021

Boosting confidence around the UX Process with the help of Heuristic Evaluations.

One of the things that comes with experience in any profession is identifying flaws in things without having to think about “why” it’s flawed. Oftentimes this leads to solving those issues without following any established process. This is quite common in a startup scenario and small organizations. Let’s take the…

Design

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Fix it the right way
Fix it the right way
Design

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Feb 21, 2021

UI Component Libraries, a common language for designers and devs.

As part of the growth of the design team within CEMEX we had made important progress in reaching a basic stage of maturity. Our todo list kept getting shorter. We developed the software application style guide, created a design language around it, and then we created our symbol library. The…

Design

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Easing the disconnect between designers and developers.
Easing the disconnect between designers and developers.
Design

5 min read


Feb 20, 2021

Designing Healthcare Software for the Department of Veterans Affairs

While working at Accenture, I was given the opportunity to lead Visual Design for the new version of the Enterprise Health Management Platform of the Department of Veterans Affairs​​​​​​​. Healthcare software has many intricacies that have to be taken care of. Patient Safety and HIPAA regulations make it pretty difficult to create a loose and open User Experience. Then, there's the fact that all government software has to be 508 compliant, which adds a new layer of complexity atop of the strict rules already present.

Design

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Designing Healthcare Software for the Department of Veterans Affairs
Designing Healthcare Software for the Department of Veterans Affairs
Design

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Feb 19, 2021

Speeding up Design execution while keeping consistency. Creating a Symbol Library

One of the most gratifying projects that I have made at CEMEX was the creation of a Sketch symbol library. A unique reference for creating visual compositions. The fundamental problem we were having that triggered the creation of it was that the team members were copy/pasting from the Master Style…

Design

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Symbol Libraries for Design Systems
Symbol Libraries for Design Systems
Design

6 min read


Feb 19, 2021

Style Guides and Design Systems. Aligning designers for enterprise design

This is a chapter of the evolution of the design team at CEMEX to serve the entire company and create digital products for both employees and customers by adhering to the user experience process. A design office is of course constituted by designers mostly, in our case, there are at…

Design

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Getting your designers on the same page to serve an entire organization
Getting your designers on the same page to serve an entire organization
Design

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Oct 12, 2018

Gravity Always Wins. Best practices for mobile app interaction.

You might find interesting the correlation on gravity and mobile navigation. The thing is that some aspects of nature have to be taken in consideration when developing UI for mobile apps, and gravity is one of them. Well, not exactly gravity, but gravity's implications on how we hold our handhelds. …

UX

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Gravity Always Wins. Best practices for mobile app interaction.
Gravity Always Wins. Best practices for mobile app interaction.
UX

3 min read


Oct 12, 2018

App feedback while loading data

The implications of loading data via AJAX are crucial in the way we interact with the user. There was a time when we didn’t care about the feedback a website gave to us, essentially, presenting new content to the user translated to a page jump. …

UX

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App feedback while loading data
App feedback while loading data
UX

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