Am I going to work with people who inspire me?
Interview with John Ferguson about design excellence and non-linear career paths in design.Illustrated by Shreya DamleLeading 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 hundreds o..
Instagram can’t touch the visual glory of blank VHS tapes
The arranged marriage between color and typography lives onA Retape 180 blank VHS tape. Source: WallHaven.A thing of beauty will never fade away. Those blank VHS tapes from the 80s? They look just as good in 2021. Vibrant Instagram images with layers of filters can’t hold a candle to these boxes in ..
Test smart: How to refine your design with usability testing
Have you ever experienced a feeling of disappointment about some purchase? Was it a birdhouse that birds were not interested in? Or a coffee grinder that did not grind coffee well?
Similarly, a feeling of disappointment (or even frustration) is the thing experienced by an end-user of a poorly develo..
How to build tech that does things differently
Data ethics principles and processes are useful, but they are often of limited use when it comes to addressing the social and environmental harms of the data economy. This post is about using creative R&D to build data technologies that embed a different set of values from the ground up, balancing e..
How to find and keep a valuable mentor
An etiquette guide for the driven, yet considerate, mentee
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Let’s stop talking about Product and start talking about Service Design?
We are 20 years into the 21st century already, but it seems that the last century has not yet left us. And I’m not talking about the fashion of always reliving some past decade to launch “aesthetic and artistic reinterpretations”. I’m talking about the fear of the unknown, about the world where we w..
Challenging creativity: How lessons on creativity change over your lifetime
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Why is it so hard to break into UX?
Strategies to help you land your dream job.
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Waterfall design isn’t dead, just having an identity crisis
There is a place where waterfall design belongs; And without it we’ll never keep up with rapid sprint cycles.
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An urgent reckoning with the tech industry’s digital pollution
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 ..
