The more you focus on optimizations, the more you lose control over the big...
— 100 design lessons for 2021
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How to lead a team by principles rather than process
Guiding principles of high-performing (UX) teams.
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Product manager moves: The art of the servant CEO
Popular advice encourages PMs to lead like a CEO. It’s more important to be a servant leader.Photo by The Lazy Artist Gallery from PexelsThe Product Manager as CEO — what is it?The premise of the Product Manager as CEO boils down to this: the PM must hold themselves responsible for all parts of the ..
The all too common request for a dashboard
And how to use the request for this feature as an indicator that the problem hasn’t been fully understood
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How to make the Hick-Hyman’s law work for you
The time it takes to make a decision increases proportionally to the number and complexity of choices. Use this effect in your products.
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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 ..
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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10 publications that contextualize design in South Africa
There are so few independent publications currently being produced in South Africa, and even fewer with a coherent design sensibility. All the more reason to know about those publications that have made a historic impression, and support those that are currently trying to create history. It should b..
Maybe it isn’t social media that’s making teens depressed, after all
Here’s what the Covid-19 lockdowns have revealed about teen depression.
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Uniwidth typefaces for interface design
Uniwidth typefaces have great potential for use in interactive interfaces. This is a short, handy compilation of some available options.As a web/interface/visual designer I work a lot with label states. Selected, unselected, active, inactive, available, out of stock. Considering that you should neve..
