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Investing in your career — and in your portfolioInterview with Shawn Park about shaping and investing in your career path.Leading with Craftis a limited series of articles where we shed a light on stories of designers with successful careers as individual contributors. Curating and publishing hundre..

In search for the missing link between physical and digital that will enable more meaningful and tangible experiences.Illustration by AuthorIn my 10+ years working for both in-house teams and design consultancies I’ve had the opportunity to work for large, Fortune 500 companies as well as early-stag..

I have been an avid Spotify user for over 6 years. I love creating my playlists, discovering new artists … but what I love the most is just listening to music while I work on my design projects. As a user and a young interface designer, when the Spotify desktop app update came out, it obviously caug..

The second part of the ‘Design debt 101’ seriesThis article references information from the ‘what’ and ‘why’ of design debt. Please, consider reading it for more context before moving forward. In this piece, we’ll dive into the topic of measuring design debt. I’ll walk you through the qualitative an..

Photo by PartTime Portraits on UnsplashAfter the uneventful presidential inauguration on Jan 20th, most of us breathed a sigh of relief that democracy had prevailed. It seems like all is right again with the world (or will be) and it’s tempting to forget how the tech industry has contributed to the ..

https://unsplash.com/photos/ArA3S3k0wTU“So, how do you decide between user needs and business needs?”I get this question all the time. Mostly, I hear it from people who are in the process of transitioning from a post-grad program into their first UXR job at a for-profit company. It hints at an under..

The elephant path. Wikipedia knows what it is. There, an elephant path is an “unofficial bicycle or walking path that is created… Continue reading on UX Collective »

We need new words and outcomes to shift how we work and win together.Photo by Ben TurnbullDesign transformation. Design-driven. Human-centered design. Design thinking. Design sprints. These terms are everywhere you look around the business world. It would appear that Design is having its moment. And..

A mistake, especially common among junior UX designers. Continue reading on UX Collective »

What if all our users fall into these four groups? Continue reading on UX Collective »