The Humanjava Story: When a Company Name Becomes a Vision
Humanjava's journey from a name to a mission reflects technology's human side, evolving from basic web design to AI-enhanced user experiences, defining the future of human-tech collaboration.
Bridging Digital Design and Societal Good: Creating an Ethical Framework in UX
The article discusses the need for an ethical framework in UX design, emphasizing transparency, community value, and responsible decision-making. It proposes an "Ethical Score" for digital platforms to ensure they serve societal good while allowing for personal value alignment.
Career Growth in a Shifting Economy
Reflecting on career growth amid rapid AI advancements, Vergel urges tech professionals to introspect and align personal values with their careers. By embracing transferable skills like empathy and co-creating with AI, they can bridge technology and humanity, shaping a future that honours both.
5 Years into the Future: Planning for Responsive Roles Now
UX professionals can lead in an AI-augmented future, shaping user experiences and business strategies. How? By exploring and evolving with AI: from incremental changes in process innovation, to co-designing with AI, and finally to extreme disruption where an AI runs its own business.
Beyond the Screen: Designing for Multi-State User Experiences
Beyond static screens, design for multi-state UX to adapt to user's evolving needs from newness to familiarity. Plan for first-time, regular, and occasional use, plus error states, to create intuitive digital experiences across the entire user lifecycle.
User Experience in 2024: Are We All Hybrids Yet?
In 2024, UX is more than aesthetics—it's a strategic blend of design, business, and data-driven insights. Whether you need a designer for user journeys or a hybrid professional to bridge creativity with analytics, understanding UX roles is key to long-term business success.
Strategies for Defining the Right UX Balance of Delight and Efficiency
Guide projects from the start, and shape the experience through a clear UX strategy. By considering the balance of delight vs efficiency, teams can ensure the experience meets both business goals and user expectations.
From UX Designer to UX SME - the Art of Writing Product Requirements Documents
Master the Product Requirements Documents (PRDs) to elevate your skills as a UX Professional. By contributing and embed user insights, UX designers help to prevent team disconnects, and drive product decisions. Position your UX self as strategic partners in enhancing and improving business value.
The UX-MBA: Combining Product Leadership, Business Analysis, and User Experience into a State of Being
By embracing these five MBA-like qualities, a UX Product Leader can reach a master's level of awareness, committed to excellence and delivering high-quality solutions that exceed expectations for everyone involved. Responsive to their project, team, and organization.
Harnessing ChatGPT: My Journey to Building a Solopreneur SaaS Business
I am embarking on a journey to create a mobile-first web app using ChatGPT. From user validation to API middleware logic, I’ve tackled it all solo with the power of AI. Discover how patience, the right questions, and a vision can turn an idea into a functional SaaS business.
Elevate Your Team: Crafting Meaningful LinkedIn Recommendations
Writing LinkedIn recommendations might seem daunting, but it’s a powerful way to celebrate our co-workers and those who excel. This article shares a simple, effective framework for crafting impactful recommendations. Let’s change the narrative and recognize the great people we work with.
Managing Up: Crafting Effective Status Reports for Business Leaders
If the goal is to provide a report that is short, clear, and demonstrates your value; all roads lead to status updates with progressive disclosure. At Humanjava Enterprises, we are HUGE fans of useful frameworks like the Conversion Funnel for these types of opt-in communications.