Articles written by
Tiffany Dang
Associate Director, User Experience
April 24, 2026
Creating Great Designs: Ways to Overcome Uncertainty in UX

In my early days as a UX designer, I was taught that you must follow ALL the steps of the textbook UX process to a T.
Research → Define → Design → Validate → Ship.
What a lovely thought. Neat! Linear! Predictable! But as we all know, that’s rarely how projects go.