A Foundation for Designing User Experiences

Ryan Nance
User Experiences
Published in
2 min readOct 22, 2015

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Designing for Other People

In this our inaugural letter, we have some old foundational pieces that I’ve been sharing lately when asked for UX reading lists, as well as a couple new ones.

But before all that, let’s start with the Experience Design Question for this issue:

What is the biggest obstacle to creating fantastic experiences?

Leave your answers as responses.

Experience Is The Product

by Peter Merholz

The Five Competencies of User Experience Design

by Steve Psomas

Death to the Hamburger.

Or, how obvious always wins.

by Jeff Doan

What can Gordon Ramsay teach us about user experience design?

by Jason Coudriet

Designing By Hand in the Digital Age

Pencil first. Pixel later. The tools and tips for great sketches.

by Ryan Nance

As always, I write to connect, so please let me know how I can do better.

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Design leader. Poet. Polyglot. Painter. Yogi. Big heart, big hope. Love to learn how good stuff gets made