This morning the song "This Magic Moment" by The Drifters popped into my head for no apparent reason. Those restless neural networks in our brains do funny things. They make seemingly unrelated, unconnected thoughts and concepts connect. Slapping my forehead I said to myself: "But, of course..."

Airbnb recently came out with Experiences, which are activities designed and led by hosts. I encountered some problems when using the newly redesigned app, so I conducted a usability test to: See if other users were experiencing similar issues Identify user pain points / priorities and Make the user experience more frictionless and intuitive.

Ask yourself a simple question and create a product that people love. An elementary school teacher of mine once assigned us an exercise that seemed simple on the surface, but turned out to be surprisingly complex. It also wound up informing my entire philosophy on creating software.

Existing state of clipboards Clipboards have been around on mobiles ever since one has been able to select text on screens. And since then, the way they function have been the same - we select a text, move to the desired application and paste it wherever required. Simple, easy and it just works.

Here's a problem I've encountered over and over again during my 5 years as a UX designer at Melbourne agencies: no budget. "We would love to do user testing, but we can't afford it." It can be hard to sell user experience design.