How to be a design ethicist at any company
The tech industry has immense work to do to take design ethics seriously, but you can be a leader at your company. We need you.It’s easy to feel stuck, frozen, and unsupported when trying to get your team or company to take design ethics seriously. But now more than ever, it’s so important that desi..
Designing to reduce the user’s mental burden
Thoughtfully designed products don’t impose an unnecessary mental load on their users. Here are some products that make me think too much.
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Radical bravery: How to design for vulnerability
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Embrace imperfection to design with character
Imperfections are usually something we try to hide, but there are some great examples where they have been turned into decisive strengths.What do these have in common?
Pixar choosing to make its first movie about toysThe decor of Friends, unchanged for 10 seasonsThe scratchy sound of a vinyl recordA..
A deep dive into Bootstrap
Sometimes to change your opinion, you have to force yourself to look at things differently.
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The evolution of usability in chess
Modern chess design has stood the test of time, but that wasn’t always the case. Sometimes less is more.Chess has a long history, it dates back to the 7th century in India, where it was created as a war game. In some ways, a lot of the game has remained unchanged since the creation, but there have b..
A playbook for designing for sales
Sales Design is a type of Service Design with its own best practices
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Product managers as amplifiers
I often say that being a PM is like having superpowers.
You are constantly learning new things given the problem space you are working in. You have privileged access to all areas of your company and the most relevant discussions about your product and company’s future.
But this kind of superpower co..
Design tokens cheatsheet
A take on Design Token definition, organization, and specificity.A Design System’s strength comes from knowinghow and when to apply options (like purple-40 or color-warning) correctly to contexts (like backgrounds or typography). This grounds the option as a design decision or what is known as a Des..
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..
