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.
Video, Conference, Chat & Collaboration Tools Roundup
Updated July 29, 2020. See this twitter thread for details. Yes, there are alternatives to Zoom I often joke that people spend the first few minutes of any online meeting discussing usability oddities of the collaboration tool itself. There are many solutions out...
Survey & Form Builder Tools Roundup
Updated August 5, 2020. See this twitter thread for details. Sometimes people will ask me about survey tools, or I'll see a solution that I want to keep an eye on. Therefore, I've created this list of survey and form building tools that I will keep updated. Most of...
Buoymoji Rainbow is Third in Series of iMessage Stickers
Buoymoji Rainbow is our 3rd release of Stickers for Apple iMessage on iOS. It's available now on the Apple App Store. This latest addition to our buoy themed emoji series includes whimsical buoys turned maritime emoji characters, with rainbow stripes and a blue-tinted...
A Roundup of Product Management & Development Project Tools
Updated July 10, 2020. See this twitter thread for details. 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...
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: July 10, 2020. See this twitter thread for details. 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...
An Unopinionated Roundup of Current Prototyping Tools
Updated July 26, 2020. See this twitter thread for details. 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...
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 design thinking 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...