Future-Proofing Your Product Strategy: Will It Stand the Test of Time?

You’ve scheduled a video conferencing call with 3 individuals from your client’s team, based in different locations around the world. It’s time for the call, and you join in. Suddenly, there is a barrage of notifications. Your phone rings – one person’s phoned to tell you that you’d shared a desktop link, and they couldn’t … Read more

From Ideas to Breakthroughs: How Continuous Discovery Powers Digital Healthcare Innovation

Digital healthcare products have been notorious for their suboptimal UX owing to their complexity (individually and as a part of the platforms and interconnected systems), the demands of industry standards, cascading dependencies, the expected resistance to change, and not to forget, this – So, how can healthcare product leaders make sure they’re taking decisions in … Read more

Breaking Free From UX Debt: 6 Ways to Improve Your Product’s User Experience Now

Picture this: You have been hearing a lot about the dysfunctionality of your system’s filters. You know they are not working for your users. But fixing them across the products will be costly and time-consuming. Meanwhile, you’re working on a new feature that is strategically more important to your business. So you make an exception … Read more

OOUX Example: A Simple Process for Designing Complex Products Using Object-Oriented UX

What do you do when you enter a hotel room for the first time? You find the card key slot to switch on the lights, then get inside, place your bag, and do a quick scan of the room to see what’s where. What you don’t do is jump right into the shower or immediately … Read more

6 Pieces of Advice to Help PMs Handle Team Burnout

“Ugh, Monday’s here already!”“I just can’t wait for this project to end and finally take a break.”“I’m tired of being tired all the time.” It’s startling how often we hear these things being said all around us but are too immersed in a whirlpool of our own tasks and to-dos to even notice. Sure, we’re … Read more

6 Strategies for Effective Collaboration between External UX Teams and Internal Product Teams

To hire or not to hire an external UX design team, is a conundrum. It’s like having your cake and eating it too – a tantalizing thought, but can it actually be done? Plus, the buzz around the strategic benefits of UX design has created a hunger for design-focused companies with UX expertise. It has … Read more

How to Make Your Organization UX-friendly

“Design creates culture. Culture shapes values. Values determine the future.” — Robert L. Peters It’s no surprise that large organizations are ushering in a radical functional change by inching closer towards a design-centric style of management. Mind you, the ‘design’ here transcends aesthetics, touching upon applying the principles to the way people function. Design thinking … Read more

Everything You Need To Know About Affinity Mapping

Quick question – what is the one thing that immediately tells you that you are in a UX design company’s office? Here’s the easiest one – you’re sure to see a wall or a whiteboard full of post-it notes affixed, maybe in some sort of a pattern. What you’re looking at is an Affinity Map … Read more

[Infographic] Quick Guide to Constructive Feedback

Creative jobs have an undeniable cool edge to them. Whenever someone asks the age-old question, “So what do you do?” And the answer is a creative field like UX UI design, product design, graphic design, film making, or motion graphics, the reaction is often a mix of amazement and envy. People love working in creative … Read more

3 Enterprise UX Challenges We Conquered in 2021

That enterprise UX is challenging is perhaps the understatement of the year. And, we at Koru UX have been fortunate enough to tackle a variety of UI and UX design challenges in our projects over the years. While it is true that enterprise systems are highly complex and mission-critical behemoths, human needs and requirements form … Read more