How N26 Wins Users with Data-Driven UX Design

“In this episode of Disruption Talks, we spoke with Jolene Tan-Davidovic, Lead User Researcher, and Emanuel Milicevic, Lead Product Designer at N26, to learn more. They share behind-the-scenes details about conducting user research, and using psychology and hard data to create the best data-driven UX design.”

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Contextualizing N26 Colors

Color is one of the key parts of your brand. It’s also one of the most exposed. Therefore working on any intervention regarding the color palette can be very tricky, no matter the size of your company. Our brand designer Maja and I embarked on the journey of scaling the N26 color palette from 8 shades to 50 shades, in the peak of the 2020 pandemic.

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Earning User Trust in Digital Payment Solutions

The fintech market, which still lacks a clear definition even within the industry, has hit major numbers in 2019–over 3,5 billion users have around 4,8 trillion euros to spend across approximately 13,000 technology-powered financial companies.

As the market keeps increasing, fintech companies’ need to respond by continually investing significant effort in order to keep their customer number counter growing.

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A Great Design Portfolio Is an Ace up Your Sleeve

Having gone through dozens of portfolios and participated in multiple candidate selections in the last couple of years prompted me to share the best practices for creating a design portfolio and propose a set of guidelines that could simplify this intimidating task.

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Keep It Clean: Project Folder Organization Template

Designers like to work in a creative mess and that’s totally fine when you work as a one-man band (“badum tish”). If we add a client, a developer, the client’s developer, a second designer, a project manager, and other stakeholders, things must be well defined and organized.

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Design More, Sketch Less

From time to time I get a question from my teammates: “Hey Emanuel, is there a Sketch plugin for...?” My answer is usually yes, Sketch’s got a myriad of extensions that can help improve your workflow. I recently delivered a talk on the topic, so I thought I’d be a good share. This list is intended for all smart, yet lazy designers who want to focus on experience and beautiful design, not on pushing pixels. Yes, there are plugins for that in Sketch.

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