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Typeface StorySteve Jobs on Time Magazine cover, vol. Oct. 17, 2011In Steve Jobs's famous Stanford speech he reflected how he became attached to typefaces. Because I had dropped out and didn’t have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I lear..

Image courtesy of Unsplash from the LinkedIn Sales Navigator teamCongrats, you have gotten a job as a Product Designer/UX Designer and now you are at the offer stage! The recruiter asks you about what you expect for salary and you don’t know what to do. Here are some tips that I have found helpful o..

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Source: https://unsplash.com/photos/LQ1t-8Ms5PYOver the last few days and weeks, I’ve been leading the recruitment efforts for a Senior Product Designer at my startup. I’ll skip this time the part of lecturing about how your CV and portfolio should look like (and how should not). For each candidate ..

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How viral “top of the iceberg” advice could do more harm than good.Teisanu Tudor shared a riveting account of how they pretended to be an instagram UX influencer a few months back. From their experience, it seems that unfortunately, lots of popular content positions UX as this “happy, easy, 10-step-..

Our goal as designers should be to seek clarity, not to impose a path to achieve it. — 100 design lessons for 2021 Not every project needs to follow the same process. was originally published in UX Collective on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to t..

How we built new data tools for remote learning in a month — and what it teaches us about emergent and adaptable teams.Photo by Ketut Subiyanto from PexelsBefore COVID-19 hit, my team’s product cycle was much closer to a year than it was to the two-week sprint cycle that Agile espouses. Over time th..

How to add a quantitative aspect to user testing with minimal effort Continue reading on UX Collective »

Ethics, UX, and our role in all thisWe live in a world where our behaviours are accurately being predicted every step of the way. It sometimes feels like apps and products know us more than we know ourselves. This is not necessarily bad, or that we should be scared every time we log on, it’s just th..