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Leah is a Design Researcher. Her unique way of customizing different research methods in a very flexible way impressed us. We had the opportunity to talk to her about this and other topics. Here’s the first part of our conversation. Leah is Principal Researcher at Spring Studio, a seasoned design studio in San Francisco, California. […]

We adults have systematically lied to you your whole life. And if you happen to be an adult, you probably already know it. We’ve told you that your entire life would be all right if you succeed in school. But once you get out, the real trial begins. And the most horrific of those is […]

User Experience (UX) design is usually confused with similar terms like User Interface (UI) and User Testing (UT). Each of them are part of the same process. But have different and important definitions.

Denisse Gutierrez is part of the UX Clinic team. She conducts UX Research on a daily basis.

Here are a few of the questions we posed to her on this topic.

Be careful and thoughtful what you name your company. The story behind the name often sets the tone.

I learned about Nearsoft two years before I actually joined the company. Back then, I was working for a consulting company. It wasn’t bad, but Nearsoft sounded more alluring because of its culture. People collaborate with one another instead being told what to do and rather than pressuring people, they are trusted to perform their best.

The problem was its location, far away from my family.

Here are the steps that a developer has to go through to become part of Nearsoft. Tech skills are important, but even more so is a candidate’s affinity for our culture.

What happens when you are in the middle of an interview and the power goes out?  Well, it depends… The interview was in full swing when an accident outside the office took out a power pole.  The office went dark.  And when our office goes dark, it goes really dark.  After a brief moment one of the […]