The Ikea effect: accepting change by creating it
In our drive for efficiency and effectiveness, we tend to present finished solutions and ready-made decisions to employees. However…
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A deep dive into those dots on Jira Kanban cards
Is there a pattern to the madness?
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How can you make UX research insights visible, traceable, and fun?
A case study from my recent explorations with Miro.Illustration credits to DrawKitResearch analysis and synthesis can be quite extensive and energy-draining steps within the UXR process. Yet both are key to distilling relevant actionable outcomes for dissemination, if you are navigating a fast-paced..
How to set up a writing practice for your design team
Even if you don’t have any writers.icons8To design products, you have to write. But I’m not here to convince you. The remaining skeptics shuttered their windows after Intercom’s Senior Group Design Manager Jonathon Colman published a study showing how the world’s most popular apps dedicate over a th..
How machines have come to naturally speak human language
The prior linguistic revolution of the compiler
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How a UX led strategy can help your startup succeed
The top 5 startup problems UX can help with.
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Illustration Teardowns: Refactoring Old Work
We all hate to look at our old work. Yuk! Blech! But as songwriters say “it’s all in the rewrite”!Girl sketching on iPad (refactored from several years ago 🙌🏽)As I come up close to the end of my current contract I find myself in that “what’s next” place where I need to get out and promote myself som..
Investing in your career — and in your portfolio
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..
Prince Philip: Celebrating a surprising tech legacy
As we bid farewell to the Duke of Edinburgh, I pay homage to his love of technology & innovation, exploring some tech-based schemes linked with the legendary DofE Award.With an incredibly heavy heart, the world recently said goodbye to HRH Prince Philip, the Queen’s beloved husband and “strength and..
The harsh reality of being a designer (and how to deal with it)
Omertà is an Italian word that refers to a code of silence and honour. Synonymous with the Mafia, it places importance on silence in the face of questioning from outsiders. Omertà doesn’t just exist in the murky criminal underworld. Doping athletes such as the now-disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong h..
