How I stop thinking about work after work

Our personal practices can be thought of as a “ritual” — held sacred and done a particular way. Read the full story ⟶

SMART goals are not so smart: make a PACT instead

A system without a goal is like a marathon without a finish line. But a system with a bad goal will result in a bad outcome. Read the full story ⟶

Deadly biases every designer needs to live with

Photo by Derick McKinney on UnsplashThere are two types of biases — Preferential: From liking one option over others. Dispositional: From one’s inherent qualities of mind and character. As a designer, I have a preferential bias toward neutral colours and a dispositional bias toward organised and str..

The missing persona you need for written presentations

Target your stakeholder’s data needs even if you’re not presenting Continue reading on UX Collective »

Design for trust

Trust is a powerful force for driving user action. And since aesthetics is a dimension of trust, every designer should try to understand… Continue reading on UX Collective »

Design v18

I redesigned the site! I can never think about the word redesign without also thinking about realigning, from Cameron Moll’s seminal article. I did not start from nothing. This design wasn’t a blank design canvas and empty code editor thing. I doubt any future redesign will be either. I started with..

Automatic Social Share Images

It’s a pretty low-effort thing to get a big fancy link preview on social media. Toss a handful of specific tags on a URL and you get a big image-title-description thing. Here’s Twitter’s version of an article on this site: It’s particularly low-effort on this site, as our Yoast SEO plugin pu..

Chapter 6: Web Design

Previously in web history… After the first websites demonstrate the commercial and aesthetic potential of the web, the media industry floods the web with a surge of new content. Amateur webzines — which define and voice and tone unique to the web — are soon joined by traditional publishers. By the ..

Simulating Drop Shadows with the CSS Paint API

Ask a hundred front-end developers, and most, if not all, of them will have used the box-shadow property in their careers. Shadows are enduringly popular, and can add an elegant, subtle effect if used properly. But shadows occupy a strange place in the CSS box model. They have no effect on an elemen..

Squads, tribes, guild: To be like Spotify or not?

Spotify’s business model which is an organizational model, the applications with the same name made a tremendous impact with its great success. Most technology companies and new business enterprises trying to achieve the same success with the strategy of ‘’Spotify Squads’’.Is It Possible to Scale th..