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Good Monday, <<First Name>>! Here's your weekly roundup of UX design case studies.

We Made $1,052,000 in 2018 Selling UI Tools. Here Is What We Learned. →

What it takes to make some dough from your side project. If you have a great product coupled with only one of the strategies listed in this article, you'll be in good shape.

Designing Towards Live Parking Map →

Florent shares his process for designing an app that solves the parking problem. Both Apple and Google even featured it.

Why I Don't Believe in Empathic Design →

Don Norman himself is here to share why he believes the search for empathy is simply misled.

Are You Sure You Want to Do This? Microcopy for Confirmation Dialogues →

Kinneret has made this great do's and don'ts list of how to write understandable confirmation dialogues.

Conversational AI Resources →

I picked this up on LinkedIn last week from Oliver Heitz and thought it's such an excellent resource for anyone interested in conversational AI.


After last week's newsletter, where you saw Daniel Korpai's fantastic case study on the iOS Finder concept, I reached out to ask a follow-up question.

How to pick a concept project to work on for your portfolio?

His answer resonated exceptionally well with me.

— For selecting topics for my concepts, I usually try to choose a topic, which bothers me on a daily basis. This way, I'm fully invested in the design concept, since I'm solving my own problem, which makes the whole process easier and I'm also more motivated to solve it.

I think as designers we all recognize these problems around us, because we love complaining about them, but what if we don't stop at complaining and we actually try to come up with alternative solutions for those concepts in addition to our complaints?

Try to use everything with an open mind and always ask yourself if these things could be done better and if so, how would that be possible and why is that important.


It holds so true! For all the side projects I've started, the most fun ones are the ones that solve my own problem(s).

I got so inspired by this; I asked him to do an interview about the topic of side projects, since he has a lot of experience with it (just check out his portfolio).

If you have any questions you want to ask him/me about side projects, reply to this email, I'm quick to respond ;)

Thanks for reading! Have a great week and go make something amazing. Feel free to follow on Twitter too.

All the best,
Jan from Case Study Club

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