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Thinking Design

How Designers Create Change Using Visual Metaphors

If the role of the designer is to create change, then the ability to persuade is fundamental to design.

8 min readMar 13, 2021

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An illustrated scene showing two co-workers discussing visual metaphors

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UX Collective

How to sketch a UX article

How would you illustrate the concept of ‘culture design’? What about ‘designing for trust’, or ‘disability design’?

6 min readSep 10, 2020

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A mural of sixteen editorial illustrations created by Justin Cheong for the Adobe UX blogs

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UX Collective

How did we get here? A visual metaphor for the internet in 2020

It’s 2020, and technology trends continue to accelerate. How did we get here? What happens next?

6 min readAug 25, 2020

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A comparison of the analog world and its network of roads, versus the digital world and its internet

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Visual Stories

Squiggle birds: a gallery

A timeless sketching activity for workshop warm-up and engaging people’s creativity.

3 min readAug 12, 2020

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Three abstract birds drawn on top of squiggles made by a marker

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UX Collective

Human-centred design: a reflection in 7 diagrams

Design looks different to everyone. How does it look to you? What if you had to draw it?

7 min readAug 1, 2020

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A drawing of the ‘house of design’ surrounded by characters, each looking into a window that shows something about design

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Visual Stories

Iconstorming for visual practitioners: Draw new icons and stretch your creativity

A fun and visual exercise to stretch your creative thinking.

6 min readOct 25, 2018

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Iconstorming for visual practitioners: Draw new icons and stretch your creativity

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Justin Cheong

Justin Cheong

Human-centred designer. Founder of Visual Academy, a platform that equips designers and educators with the visual thinking toolkit. visual.academy

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