UX Design Tools Mindfulness - One-Stop Shop for Learning and Practice - CHI '22 Workshop InContext: Futuring User-Experience Design Tools

Sep 24, 2026

Explores how mindfulness supports learning and practical work in UX design teams, especially as growing tool ecosystems can overwhelm entry-level practitioners. Surveys the rapid expansion of digital UX tools and the resulting need for better collaboration, communication, and decision-making across remote, hybrid, and in-person settings. Uses Miro as a one-stop-shop example, examining how tool diversity affects cognitive load and prompting questions about gaps, saturation, and how learners decide where to start.

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UX Design Tools Mindfulness

GROWTH IN UX DESIGN TOOLS

“ONE-STOP SHOP” FOR UX DESIGN TOOLS

UX Design Tools Mindfulness: One-Stop Shop for Learning and Practice Makayla Lewis Kingston University London, United Kingdom [m.m.lewis@kingston.ac.uk](m.m.lewis@kingston.ac.uk) How important is mindfulness for learning and practice in UX design? ABST RACT The foundation of user experience (UX) design is the ability to communicate clearly and effectively within design teams throughout the design process. As a result, UX practitioners often use a multitude of tools to communicate understandings, explorations, prototypes, and learnings. For learners and entry-level UX practitioners this can be overwhelming, this workshop position pictorial discusses and questions the possibility of a ‘one-stop shop’ for UX design tools, Miro an online collaborative whiteboard, to bring together, harmonize, UX design tools for practitioners and learners whilst allowing them to maintain mindfulness in their current learning, thinking, and practice environments (Figure 1) . How do UX designers determine what tools are best suited for the job? What support is required to help UX designers to obtain mindfulness? Figure 1. Finding harmony with others, digital illustration by Makayla Lewis, 2022 . CHI '22 Workshop InContext: Futuring User-Experience Design Tools. April 29-May 5, 2022, New Orleans, LA, USA © 2022 Copyright is held by the owner/author(s) . How do UX designers work and make decisions in remote, hybrid, and in-person environments? Author Keywords User experience, design thinking, online whiteboards, collaboration, communication. CSS Concepts • Human-centered computing~ user experience. Copyright © 2022. Makayla Lewis . All rights reserved. UX Design Tools Mindfulness GROWTH IN UX DESIGN TOOLS CHI’2022 Workshop InContext: Futuring User-Experience Design Tools, April 29-May 5, 2022 Copyright © 2022. Makayla Lewis. All rights reserved. In 2021 there were more than 105 digital UX design tools: desktop, browser, and app platforms [1], to support learners and practitioners through the design process, e.g., Whimsical, [Otter. ai](Otter. ai), and Atlas.ti to empathize, UX Pressia and Atlas.ti to define; Sketch, Marvel app POP and Flow app to ideate; Figma, Adobe XD, and Protopie to prototype; and Lookback to test, plus much more. The recent growth in UX design tools shows limited signs of slowing down, especially with the increase of remote and hybrid working because of the COVID-19 pandemic [2], therefore exacerbating the need for tools to better support UX designers to engage more effectively and productively with their team, stakeholders, and end-users (Figure 2) . This workshop position pictorial asks: How are gaps in UX design tools determined by providers? In the future, will the UX design tools market become less saturated? What impact does the number of UX design tools have on designer mindfulness? How do learners and entry-level practitioners know where to start? Who or what decides the UX space requires further saturation? Figure 2. Adding more to an already saturated space, digital illustration by Makayla Lewis, 2022 . How can we best collate the ‘drops? How does a 'drop’distinguish itself from others? There are many layers, how do UX designers know which is best to learn (use), is foundational, or support for another tool? How do UX designers decide what to engage with when the space is so saturated? If it is old, does it mean it requires replacing? 2 UX Design Tools Mindfulness CHI’2022 Workshop InContext: Futuring User-Experience Design Tools, April 29-May 5, 2022 ‘ONE-STOP SHOP’ FOR UX DESIGN TOOLS Miro, an online whiteboarding tool [3], initially created as a “collaborative space where all team members can easily think and plan together and sync their minds regardless of format, location or time zone” [4], has seen vast growth within the UX design tools space because of remote and hybrid working in the last two years. UX Tools annual survey [5] identified that

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Why is mindfulness important in UX design learning and practice?

The workshop highlights mindfulness as a way to manage attention and cognitive load while communicating and making decisions within UX teams throughout the design process.

What factors drive the growth of UX design tools?

The text points to the large increase of digital UX tools and the acceleration of remote and hybrid work during the COVID-19 pandemic as key drivers.

How does Miro function as a “one-stop shop” for UX design tools?

Miro is described as a collaborative whiteboarding platform that supports ideation, sharing deliverables, decision making, and reflection, with template libraries and expanded communication features plus plugins/apps for other UX tools.

Sep 24, 2026

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