Articles

Kim Flaherty

Kim Flaherty is an experience design and journey-management consultant working independently through her consultancy, Resonant XD.

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Articles and Videos

  • The Best Things About Working in UX

    We surveyed 126 practitioners, uncovering 8 things practitioners love about working in UX, from problem-solving to accessible design.

  • Create Your Own Research-Participant Database

    Make user research and recruiting more efficient by keeping your own database of research participants. What’s important when choosing tools? What data should you store, and how should you govern the use of the database?

  • The 3 Competencies of Journey Management

    Managing journeys requires a continuous practice of 3 interdependent competencies: collecting insights, analyzing them to drive design strategy, and orchestrating journey experiences for users.

  • Diary Studies: Understanding Long-Term User Behavior and Experiences

    Participants log daily activities as they occur to give contextual insights about real-time user behaviors and needs.

  • Personas 101

    Personas are personified representations of real information about our target audience that enable us to design with real customers in mind. They help us align ideas and apply what we know.

  • Indicators, Validations, and Notifications: Pick the Correct Communication Option

    Status feedback is crucial to the success of any system. Knowing when to use 3 common communication methods is key to supporting users.

  • Journey Management vs. Service Design

    Service design is an active effort to design a service solution for a customer need, while journey management is an ongoing effort to improve or sustain the quality of an existing service or journey.

  • Always Pilot Test User Research Studies

    Running a pilot test for a user research study enables you to assess the study's effectiveness and avoid common problems in the main study.

  • Automate Admin Tasks in the Research Process

    Conducting user research includes a lot of overhead and busy work. Find ways to streamline the process by automating repetitive administrative tasks using webhooks.

  • The Negative Impact of Mobile-First Web Design on Desktop

    Mobile-first web designs cause significant usability issues when viewed on desktop. Content becomes overly dispersed across long scrolling pages with expansive white space and enlarged images and fonts, making it difficult for users to consume and understand the information.