Product Cookbook

Let the user help you pick a design.

Group cards to guide information architecture design.

Get ideas from similar products.

Catalog and audit your web content to evaluate its value.

Support consistent writing with standards and guidelines.

Document user journeys over time.

Visualize what users say, do, think, and feel.

Get initial thoughts on an idea, concept, or prototype.

Visualize how the user navigates your product.

Create fictional characters to reflect your audience.

Recruit people for your studies.

Identify your research questions and make a plan.

Uncover attitudes, opinions, and self-reported behaviors.

Capture free-form user voices on a board.

Evaluate menu labels and structure to improve navigation.

Observe user interactions to evaluate a product's usability.

Speak with users to understand their thoughts.

Understand user behaviors with data.

Plan for your website content with users in mind.

Quickly brainstorm design ideas and gather feedback.

Write web content that is easy to read and understand.

Build scalable component libraries with tokens and documentation.

Reduce mental effort by simplifying interfaces and guiding attention.

Expert review based on Nielsen's 10 heuristics.

5-day structured process to prototype and test ideas with real users.

Reveal complexity gradually to reduce overwhelm.

Sketch 6 ideas fast, then refine the strongest one.

8 sketches in 8 minutes to push past obvious solutions.

Democratic prioritization with dot stickers.

Reframe problems as design opportunities.

Quick, scrappy user testing in the wild.

Cluster qualitative data into meaningful themes.

Align with decision-makers before design.

Drill past symptoms to find root causes.

Sort features by Must, Should, Could, Won't.

Feel the user's emotional state before opening Figma.

Map the emotional territory before the interface.

Measure visual density before judging content.

Define emotional atmosphere before choosing colors.

Carry the throughline into deliverables without losing it.

Let motion carry the emotional throughline.

Interfaces that live inside the 3D world, not on top of it.

Design spatial behavior based on proximity zones.

Balance perceptual and cognitive presence in immersive environments.

Adapt design patterns to rotation-only vs. full spatial freedom.

Understand why spatial interfaces work differently than 2D.