Negotiating tips for designers

Image courtesy of Unsplash from the LinkedIn Sales Navigator teamCongrats, you have gotten a job as a Product Designer/UX Designer and now you are at the offer stage! The recruiter asks you about what you expect for salary and you don’t know what to do. Here are some tips that I have found helpful o..

What it takes to build a bridge

To cross a divide, the gap has to be understood. Continue reading on UX Collective »

New challenges. New solutions. A not-so-new way of working.

How we built new data tools for remote learning in a month — and what it teaches us about emergent and adaptable teams.Photo by Ketut Subiyanto from PexelsBefore COVID-19 hit, my team’s product cycle was much closer to a year than it was to the two-week sprint cycle that Agile espouses. Over time th..

How understanding KPIs a little can improve discussions with stakeholders

How to add a quantitative aspect to user testing with minimal effort Continue reading on UX Collective »

Ethics, UX and our role in all this

Ethics, UX, and our role in all thisWe live in a world where our behaviours are accurately being predicted every step of the way. It sometimes feels like apps and products know us more than we know ourselves. This is not necessarily bad, or that we should be scared every time we log on, it’s just th..

Use calendar invites to drive design cadence and content

Keep designs moving with this simple productivity strategy. Continue reading on UX Collective »

Design is not design is not design

Design is not a homogenous field and applying the right methods to the problem space is important to getting things right. Continue reading on UX Collective »

How to set up custom design linting in Figma using the Design Lint plugin

A tutorial for creating a design linter specific to your team.https://lintyour.designWhat is Design Lint?Back in 2019, I released a Figma plugin called Design Lint. My goal was to help my team, other designers, and myself to find and fix errors in our work more easily. Design Lint loops through laye..

How AI programmers can give a more human touch to their work

Beyond the “coder god complex” Continue reading on UX Collective »