Blog | Kamil van Buuren - Experience Design Team Leader for IKEA Digital @ Amsterdam

July 11th, 2023

Suggestion from Eliza from the Lyndhurst STEM club

On May 19th 2023, Eliza - one of the youngest members of the Lyndhurst STEM club - reached out me, to share with me the Guide to UX Design and Design Thinking for Kids. I found it to be a great resource and since I can only encourage children to learn more about all facets of technology and design, I thought it was an excellent suggestion from Eliza to publish it here.

Thank you Eliza for pointing it out to me! (And making me aware that there are kids interested in the workfield I love so much.)

...and sorry to make you wait so long before publishing it. Thank you for your patience!

June 29th, 2021

New website for Sparta (bikes)

The new spartabikes.com has been launched!

Just like raleigh.co.uk and lapierrebikes.com, it's built with the in-house developed platform that we call 'Accession'. That's a fully headless platform which uses Storyblok for (headless) content managent, Shopware for (headless) e-commerce and Algolia for (headless) merchandising. It's using a Jamstack architecture with React and Gatsby.

The content, UX, UI and frontend components (maintained in Storybook and 'tweakable' via design tokens, using Amazon's Style Dictionary) are firmly rooted in the Object-Oriented UX philosophy, which enables us to design at scale, with great speed.

I'm proud of this third baby (the first and second were raleigh.co.uk and lapierrebikes.com) we delivered with the team!

April 22nd, 2021

Tim's Content Break: Vodcast on headless and OOUX

During the preparations for the webinar on the topic of headless content management and object-oriented UX that I did with my colleague and 'headless & ooux partner in crime' Rowin Peet, we got talking - nerding away, really - with Tim Hanse on the topic.

March 9th, 2021

New website for Lapierre

The new lapierrebikes.com has been launched!

Just like raleigh.co.uk, it's built with the in-house developed platform that we call 'Accession'. That's a fully headless platform which uses Storyblok for (headless) content managent, Shopware for (headless) e-commerce and Algolia for (headless) merchandising. It's using a Jamstack architecture with React and Gatsby.

I'm proud of this second baby (the first was raleigh.co.uk) we delivered with the team!

February 24th, 2021

Webinar on headless content management and OOUX (Dutch alert)

Together with my colleague and 'headless & ooux partner in crime' Rowin Peet I had the honour of being invited by Crossphase to give a webinar on the topic of headless content management and object-oriented UX.

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June 30th, 2020

New website for Raleigh UK

The new raleigh.co.uk has been launched!

It's built with the in-house developed platform that we call 'Accession'. That's a fully headless platform which uses Storyblok for (headless) content managent, Shopware for (headless) e-commerce and Algolia for (headless) merchandising. It's using a Jamstack architecture with React and Gatsby.

I'm proud of this baby we delivered with the team!

March 12th, 2018

Google: debijenkorf.nl ranks 3rd in NL on mobile usability of registration & conversion!

There are those proud moments in the life of a UX-er and this is one of them.

After 2 years of hard research & design work, with a fierce 'mobile first' approach, our new checkout launched by the end of 2017 (more about redesigning the checkout of debijenkorf.nl).

And now Think with Google ranked us 3rd in mobile usability in the Netherlands, with a 'best in class' on registration & conversion!

That is just awesome :-)

October 4th, 2017

Redesigning the checkout @ debijenkorf.nl

It was with great pleasure that I accepted the invitation by the Amsterdam UX meetup group, to tell the story about redesigning the checkout at debijenkorf.nl on October 4th, 2017. And many thanks to Adyen, for hosting the evening.

Telling the story about this 2-year journey, from starting the research to getting the first version live, was great fun and I really enjoyed the discussions during and after the presentation. Thanks all for being there! The slides can be found here.

February 23rd, 2017

UX for real-life products: cars

As I wrote earlier, in my post 'What is UX?': UX as a concept is not new. It has been around for years. Maybe not being called 'UX', but the idea is the same. As an example, I use the fact that e.g. BMW works hard on tweaking the sound of the car-doors closing.

And then, today, I ran into this podast-episode by Twenty Thousand Hertz, illustrating just that. Enjoy :-)

November 15th, 2016

(Dutch-alert) Cookiewetgeving: de oplossing die het probleem werd

Het doel van de cookiewetgeving is nobel: de argeloze internetgebruiker behoeden voor privacy- en identiteitsellende.

Wat bepalend is voor het behalen van dat doel is de manier waarop je dat doet. Beleidsmakers hebben nu vol ingezet op symptoombestrijding: beperkende wetgeving. Terwijl educatie & voorlichting betere, structurelere oplossingen zouden zijn.

In dit artikel een voorbeeld van hoe de cookiewet zijn doel voorbij schiet en nu het probleem veroorzaakt dat het wilde oplossen.

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October 10th, 2016

Google ranks debijenkorf.nl 9th in Europe for mobile UX!

And that's a huge compliment for a UX-er working on debijenkorf.nl :-)

Woohoo!

April 28th, 2016

Integrating UX in agile development @ debijenkorf.nl

My colleague and friend Wouter Brackel and I were greatly honoured to share our experiences with the Ladies that UX Amsterdam, on April 21st, 2016 @ Rockstart in Amsterdam.

January 28th, 2016

What is UX?

There are a lot of definitions of ‘UX’ floating around. Sometimes it seems as if it's some ‘magic stuff’ you sprinkle over a flow or design that will make it user-proof. In some cases it is a synonym for visual-/ graphic-/ user-interface-design. And sometimes there’s no clue. Googling for 'what is ux' will return you about 100.000.000 results. Trying to add something to this topic feels a bit ridiculous. But, hey, here's my 2 cents :-)

April 20th, 2014

(Dutch Alert) WhatsApp, Facebook & Telegram

De recente ophef over de overname van WhatsApp door Facebook: ik krijg er een beetje jeuk van. Waarom?

Los van de discussies over het astronomische bedrag, lees ik dingen als: "I am not handing over my phone number to Facebook to misuse and give out to third parties." Of: "The best new IM. Forget whatsapp, this is the all new multi-platform instant messaging, that's free, forever." En dan komt die jeuk.

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