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Design & UX — Fewer Ideas: An Unconventional Approach To Creativity — Smashing Magazine

Fewer Ideas: An Unconventional Approach To Creativity — Smashing Magazine

Remember that last team brainstorming session where you were supposed to generate a long list of brilliant ideas? How many of those ideas actually stuck? Did leadership act on any of those ideas? In this article, Eric Olive challenges the value of exercises like brainstorming and explores more effective methods for sparking creativity to improve design and enhance the user’s experience.

EOEric OliveEric Olive·May 15, 2025Design & UX
Design & UX — Designing Better Tooltips For Mobile User Interfaces — Smashing Magazine

Designing Better Tooltips For Mobile User Interfaces — Smashing Magazine

Tooltips are powerful design patterns implemented to enhance the design experience by providing additional information precisely when users need it. The key to designing tooltips that fit seamlessly into the overall design is to plan for them early in the design process. Specifically, designing useful tooltips requires proper timing and proper implementation. In this article, Eric Olive will show

EOEric OliveEric Olive·February 3, 2021Design & UX
Design & UX — Reducing Design Risk — Smashing Magazine

Reducing Design Risk — Smashing Magazine

The pressure to rush market and usability research carries risk. In this article, Eric Olive will offer four practical techniques to mitigate this risk and create designs that better serve customers and the company: context over convenience, compromise, better design decisions, design reduction.

EOEric OliveEric Olive·May 7, 2020Design & UX