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Personalisation can sometimes be generalised.Source: Tessa Portuese on DribbbleYour horoscope: “You enjoy being spontaneous in life but also like well-planned decisions sometimes. You are loyal and respectful towards people who’re loyal and respect you back. You are usually an optimistic person but ..

As researchers and designers of emerging technologies, we need to reflect and ask ourselves, what’s within our power to help realize a future that invites participation from the full spectrum of human diversity.Credit: Fortune Magazine/Ultimate Software — 100 Best Places Workplaces for DiversityTher..

The Single Usability Metric (SUM) — A completion rate conundrumTL;DR — In the SUM benchmarking method, the calculation of completion rates creates a bias for completion rates which artificially inflates all ‘good’ scores and marks some ‘poor’ scores as ‘good’. I cover two methods to augment the SUM ..

What rock stars have taught me about my job.Garbage, illustrated by R. Michael HendrixSteve was supposed to be in bright colored lights on stages across the U.S. along with Liz Phair and Alanis Morrisette. Instead, he was on Zoom with me, trying to find a camera angle that didn’t make him look like ..

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 ..

6 cheats to make your portfolio look redesigned — without actually doing anythingThe world moves fast. What was in style or considered beautiful ten years ago is not the same today. Likewise, your own taste and goals change with time too. Which is why it’s important to keep your portfolio updated. I..

How Flash changed my life and what it has taught me about the future.https://medium.com/media/c961471ebb81d1ab3d20c4460e9f2b48/hrefFor those of us who came of age in the Dot Com Boom of the late ’90s and early 2000s, Flash was one of the most creatively liberating web technologies to ever come along..

PART 2Understanding DesignOps as a strategic function: measuring impactPart 2 of 2DesignOps relies on ongoing performance assessments to constantly evaluate what can be done better to impact positively the business metrics. Yes, DesignOps’ impact is quantifiable. Credits: https://www.pexels.com/@nie..

If you’ve struggled in the past to relate a lofty, aspirational Product Vision to your day-to-day work, this layered architecture may help… Continue reading on UX Collective »

Apple’s Touch Bar may be on its way out, but it could have been different if it behaved like the Elgato Stream Deck Continue reading on UX Collective »