Tamara Chehayeb Makarem

UX Design

On finding purpose, nurturing talent and building a sustainable future

In this post, I share the top things that resonated with me from the Women of Silicon Roundabout 2021 conference: the importance of finding purpose, nurturing talent, and building a sustainable future.

Tamara Chehayeb Makarem · 5^th Nov 2021 · 2 min read

Open Source

OSSF London 2021

Earlier this month, I was a speaker at the Linux Foundation Open Source Strategy Forum (OSSF) in London. I moderated a panel on women’s career progression within Fintech. In this post I detail my thoughts on the key takeaways from the panel

Tamara Chehayeb Makarem · 18^th Oct 2021 · 1 min read

People · Video

Cultivating Empathy

In this talk, I present empathy as a skill that can be cultivated and explores ways of doing that. Anyone interested in building their empathy skills or cultivating empathy within their team or workplace can learn here about different types of empathy, the ways it can empower us and its practical application in our day-to-day jobs.

Tamara Chehayeb Makarem · 28^th Sep 2021

UX Design

UX Migration Strategy for Legacy Applications

In this article, I focus on the migration strategy for legacy applications from a UX perspective and highlight the elements that businesses should think about.

Tamara Chehayeb Makarem · 16^th Jul 2021 · 3 min read

UX Design

Designing with accessibility in mind

The process for meeting accessibility standards can seem overwhelming. In this post, I explore three ways of approaching accessibility that make achieving it more manageable.

Tamara Chehayeb Makarem · 11^th Sep 2019 · 3 min read

UX Design

We’ve heard of clean code, it’s time for Clean Design

Clean Design is the cleanliness of your design files and the practices of creating these files rather than the design outcome you generate from them. In this post, you can find a few tips on how you can start applying Clean Design.

Tamara Chehayeb Makarem · 8^th May 2019 · 5 min read

UX Design

FinTech Design Summit 2019: Designing for emotions and raising financial literacy

We know that emotions can move markets through optimism and pessimism but what about apathy, stress and the embarrassment that we feel when discussing our finances? Designing for emotion is not a new concept but perhaps it has been overlooked in FinTech. In this post, I share my take on the FinTech Design Summit 2019 focusing on an angle that puts people’s emotions at the center of FinTech Design.

Tamara Chehayeb Makarem · 26^th Apr 2019 · 4 min read

UX Design

Big Data London 2018

In this article, I share my take on the recent Big Data LDN 2018 conference and delve into some particular highlights from Dr Hannah Fry's keynote.

Tamara Chehayeb Makarem · 30^th Nov 2018 · 3 min read

UX Design

How UX designers can help users protect their data

Protecting users’ privacy and security is often seen as a task for developers. However, UX designers can work alongside developers and play a role in that. In this post, I present a few ways in which designers can help users protect their data.

Tamara Chehayeb Makarem · 27^th Jun 2018 · 5 min read

Delivery

The 3 types of minimum viable products

An MVP is a product that has just enough features to add business value. Typically you quickly learn from it to improve on subsequent releases or inform business decisions. MVP is also a buzzword and many have tried to constrain its definition. However, when people talk about MVPs, they mean different things. In this post, I describe the 3 types of MVPs that I encountered.

Tamara Chehayeb Makarem · 26^th Jun 2018 · 4 min read

UX Design

Working with type: Sketch vs. Adobe Illustrator

In this post, I go over the similarities and differences between Sketch and Illustrator when working with type.

Tamara Chehayeb Makarem · 3^rd Jul 2017 · 5 min read

UX Design

Sharing styling specs with developers

This post looks at the pros and cons of some of the automated handoff tools available for designers to share style specs with developers.

Tamara Chehayeb Makarem · 24^th Feb 2017 · 5 min read

UX Design

Four tips for achieving successful UX workshops

Facilitating UX workshops can be challenging when ideating with non-designers who have not participated in a UX workshop and are sceptical about its value. In this post, I suggest four tips for achieving successful UX workshops and gaining the trust of the more sceptical participants.

Tamara Chehayeb Makarem · 11^th Jan 2017 · 6 min read

Data Engineering

How are businesses using Big Data?

Big Data can help businesses run more efficiently. Their main challenge is getting the best value from the data they have to turn it into actionable information

Tamara Chehayeb Makarem · 1^st Dec 2016 · 4 min read

UX Design

Body as Interface

Body as interface is plausible either when the body is in a controlled environment or when the device becomes part of the body. Exploring this notion allows us to stop designing interfaces and start designing experiences.

Tamara Chehayeb Makarem · 25^th May 2016 · 4 min read

UX Design

Data visualisation and scale: leveraging the macro and the micro

The size of things is relative to the scale that we set. This might sound like a trivial notion, but it is key to creating meaningful data visualisations.

Tamara Chehayeb Makarem · 16^th May 2016 · 5 min read

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