Author Paul Olyslager

 

We tend to go around money a lot less rational than we might think. By using some practical examples, behavioural scientists Dan Ariely and Jeff Kreisler analysed those wrong thought-patterns we have about money. And now they explain what we can learn from it. In their book, titled Dollars and Sense: How We Misthink Money… continue reading

A big part of what I do as a UX Designer is trying to understand the user. What goals do they have in mind? How would they like to achieve those goals? How do they achieve them now and does the feature behave as expected? Understanding your users is key to defining the problem. Only… continue reading

As a designer, you’ve probably already heard of Sketch. Sketch is a design tool for Mac, created by and intended for UX, UI, mobile or web designers. Although the tool has a good amount of features, you can extend its functionality with Sketch plugins and speed up the design workflow. The Sketch plugins Plugins are… continue reading

Uber users do not like to wait for their ride. The service should act very quickly. But that’s not always as easy as it sounds. Drivers are not employed by Uber; they drive whenever it suits them. Uber can not instruct drivers when and how long they should be driving. So how does Uber guarantee… continue reading

Measuring the success of your optimisation efforts is essential to keep improving progressively. But how do you measure your efforts of optimising the usability? With the help of the System Usability Scale (SUS). In this post I would like to share my personal experience. As you might know, I work as a UX Designer for… continue reading

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- Paul