Experienced design leader collaborating on successful products & services
Hi, I’m James Young and I strive to work with diverse groups of talented people around the world on business initiatives that include: Research, Strategy, Ideation, Technical Exploration, Creative Problem Solving, Testing, Iteration, and Design-to-Development Implementation.
A Roundup of Product Management & Development Project Tools
There are a variety of tools available to help product teams manage the process of conceiving, defining, planning, executing, and delivering products in an and agile manner. What works for your team will have a lot to do with factors such as: Team sizes and...
Code-centric Design Tools on the Rise?
Coded components will finally become the source of truth in UI design In 2018, I wrote about an emerging trend of tools that mingle visual design and code in ways that are notably different from typical "screen design" tools for drawing pictures of screens and...
An Unopinionated Roundup of Current UX Research & UI Testing Tools
Updated: June 4, 2020 Whether you call it user experience, customer experience, human experience, or simply 'trying to understand if anyone wants-or-can-use the thing we're making' - if you're reading this, you probably appreciate the importance of iterative user...
An Unopinionated Roundup of Current Prototyping Tools
I've shared various lists, roundups, and reviews of different prototyping tools in the past - usually on Twitter. Sometimes, people will point out that a particular third-party roundup review has overlooked a specific product or seems biased. I've created a running...
On-Demand Design Companies Offering Agency-like Services with SaaS-like Pricing
The design services landscape has undoubtedly evolved in the last decade. Regardless of size or model, there's been a rich history of graphic design services being a "relationships businesses." Firms typically became known and trusted for their leadership, teams, and...
Podcast Turf War is Inspiring Some Awesome A/V Editing Tools
Big streaming players and upstarts alike are driving the next phase of popularity in Podcasting. These players want to control that coveted position of the go-to Podcast app on people's devices. The ongoing demand is also inspiring some innovative tools popping up to...
Digitizing Your UX Sticky Notes
Sometimes the analog approach is a quicker and easier way to achieve a particular task. A classic example is the appropriately stereotypical use of sticky notes by User Experience designers to facilitate various workshop exercises such as card sorting and other...
Mobile Data-visualization has a Y Axis Problem
There is a 'trendy' design pattern, many years in use, of not displaying the Y axis on a chart in some financial mobile apps. I first noticed this in the app Robinhood. But I’ve also seen it in apps such as SoFi. Sadly, despite advocating for a change, these apps are...
New Presentation Tools Breaking Boundaries
Updated 05/29/2020 to include additional services. See this twitter thread for details. What is a "Presentation" in the post-PowerPoint era? There's a subtle shift in the Presentation tools landscape that's been emerging lately. Products like Google Slides, Zoho Show,...
Buoymoji Colorways is Second in Series of iMessage Stickers
Buoymoji Colorways is our 2nd release of Stickers for Apple iMessage on iOS. It's available now on the Apple App Store. This latest in the series is an expanded set that features emoji in three different colors (green, white, pink) plus a few extras. The mariners...