Career Advice

Cultivate your ability to effect change actively rather than reacting passively. Human agency with the courage to do something new, without being told, will separate the designers of the future from the assembly-line workers of the past, and the empowered learner from the spoon-fed student.

A lot of people say the best career advice they ever got came from a formal mentor or a leadership program. For me, it came from something…

An unordered list of general guidelines I keep in mind when starting a new role

Many designers, especially those in their 30s and 40s, are feeling a growing sense of disillusionment with their careers. The passion that…

If you had asked 22-year-old me what my “career aspirations” were, I would have looked at you blankly and then casually changed the subject…

I recently embarked on an exciting new chapter of my career at Microsoft, and one of the first things I did was revisit a trusted resource…

In times when UX jobs are not plentiful, use these tactics to prepare yourself to navigate a difficult job market.

It’s probably not a good idea to write an article after having only slept for 6 hours in the past 48 hours. I just flew across the globe…

As an umbrella term for UX/CX work, “experience design” reflects blended roles and core human-centered principles.

How the challenges of the design industry can fuel our passion for learning new skills

If I were to start from scratch today as a UI/UX designer this is what i would do.