Rob Cowie

Dungeons & Dragons & Design Thinking

The role that facilitation plays in a design thinking workshop completely mirrors the same type of role that DMs play…

7 years ago

2019 UXD302 Teaching Module at Open Window

Completed my second teaching module over seven weeks at the Open Window Institute for Arts and Digital Sciences. The curriculum…

8 years ago

How to Incorporate UX and Product Design into Agile

Your customers only see your user experience (UX). They don’t see how many developers you had or if you were…

8 years ago

2019 Interaction Design Foundation Pretoria Talk

Presented on the Role of UX in Project Success, as well as debuting a Design Way of Work framework.

8 years ago

The art of war in UX: Performing a full site audit

Towards the end of our 10 week program at General Assembly, we were again allocated into groups and this time,…

8 years ago

The Usability of Cryptocurrency

With everyone talking about cryptocurrency in the technology sector, you might think it would be more popular, but only a…

8 years ago

Why Redesigns Don’t Make Users Happy

It’s easy to think that users hate redesigns because they don’t like how the new design looks like. While users…

8 years ago

Designers Are Defining Usability Too Narrowly

To our own detriment, designers prefer to think about “how” much more than “why.” This was demonstrated in my blog…

8 years ago

How To Make A Dashboard That Doesn’t Suck

“We need a dashboard for this product! Make it pretty! Something that will WOW in the sales cycle!” It’s a…

8 years ago

How I got to Facebook’s design team

From zero real world experience to designing for billions at one of the world’s renowned hi-tech companies in 5 years.…

8 years ago