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..
Designing for the autistic community
Product design principles that will improve usability for everyone.
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Do I know enough about the problem to prescribe a solution?
The prescription vs. the platform approach.Picture Jon. Jon is a first adopter (early consumer) of a startup that’s trying to design a better way to roast salmon using a toaster oven. He’s smart, 35, and a working professional. He spends his evenings answering work emails and watching Dora the Explo..
The only way an “edit” feature on Twitter would work
How to provide what users want, while keeping them accountable for what they tweet
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The art of visualising music: A brief history of graphic notation
Design and music intersect in many areas; fashion, art, filmmaking and set design, yet one relatively obscure but staggeringly creative area is in the design of graphic notation used by composers. Graphic notation is one side that is relatively unknown outside the sometimes rarefied world of orchest..
If men hate shopping, why do they still lead so many retail companies?
Insights from 30 years of watching men and women shop and manage retail companies
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What design research can learn from Socrates’ sneakers
Design research meets Greek philosophy
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Good discovery, best discovery
I often see product teams filled with people with the same old complaining about not having enough time for Discovery phases.
“I wish I had more time to make for Discovery.”– Any product person, any company.I have some strong opinions about this topic. I’ll try to explain my thinking in a broader se..
UI & UX micro-tips: Volume four
A collection of handy tips to help improve your designs instantly.
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UX lessons I wish I had learned earlier
Part 1 — CraftThey say “hindsight is 20/20”. It’s very true. 10 years ago I made the switch from graphic design to user experience after a 10-year stint working for print shops & manufacturing environments. It has been an incredible journey so far, but there are many things I wished I had learned ea..
