Restart Your UX Efforts Quickly, Reliably and Remotely

Catalyst UX On Demand Retainer  Due to COVID-19, many organizations have been forced to keep employees working remotely. This creates new challenges such as: communication, collaborative work processes, recruiting, and more.  As a result, developing applications across multiple devices can be more difficult.  In these times, setting up a proficient internal UX team with a proven approach is a tall order. User experience (UX) requires multiple skills including UX architects, UX designers, UI developers, and user researchers, which can be [...]

Remote Work Tips for COVID-19

As a design consultancy competing for talent in the Bay Area, finding our niche has been a crucial factor in determining our brand and value offering to our employees. Initially, we primarily interviewed designers that lived in the Bay Area who were willing to commute to our office in San Mateo. While it is beneficial to have everyone in the same office, this meant we were competing with every other Bay Area tech company. Now, we seek seasoned designers with [...]

Mobile Apps During Coronavirus

Mobile App Growth Coronavirus is undoubtedly changing our lives in many ways. One of its biggest side effects is its large-scale disruption to business and consumer behavior. However, if you are a company that delivers a service using the web, a digital solution, or an application, now may be the time for you to invest in and improve your application. […]

11 Signs You Need a UX Design System

What Is a UX Design System? What is a UX design system, and why is it important?  If you have a style guide is that enough? The answers to those questions: yes and no. First, a UX design system is the single source of truth for the building blocks of your design.  It includes not only foundations (like brand colors, typeface, icons, etc.) but also components (buttons, form fields), patterns (common layouts), assets, AND rules, constraints, principles and code so [...]