Career Advice

Beyond the Pixels: Thinking Bigger

How do you design for a user that doesn’t use your product?

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…

Designers shouldn’t always manage, but they’re often forced to for career growth. Let’s fix that.

Why your UX suggestions might be getting ignored

How to drive impact and gain influence on your team — an article from Ryan Scott / /

What I wish I’d known starting out as a designer in big tech.

The skills that can elevate your design career and your influence as an individual contributor

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

To measure workplace success, employees need to consider a range of factors, such as personal goals, the needs of the business and wellbeing.

In my recent talk at the MIT Media Lab with Professor Hiroshi Ishii, I shared reflections on what it means to pursue a hybrid career — one…

Pushed too far, tech workers are pushing back, and it’s a volcano waiting to erupt

My experience as a UX designer started back in 2017 when I was a fresh graduate from a premier design school and joined my first corporate…

Workhuman’s Susana Rojero on how she ended up in product design and why communication skills are just as important as technical skills.

Data on where designers struggle the most at work

That every UX designer should know

Business as usual? No.

Whether you want 10% or 50% more than what was offered, you need to justify why you're worth it, says Adam Broda, a senior manager at Amazon.

In fact, many UX designers have found themselves struggling to find work, with some even being laid off multiple times in recent years.

Let’s talk about how techies got nerfed

You can’t cut your way to growth, but you can save your company without gutting it

The slew of tech job cuts are a massive mistake but also probably unavoidable

I have mentored over a   junior UX designers on adplist.org in the past two years, and here are what I realized.

How cultural sincerity can lead to enormous misunderstandings

Roadmap to become the best and top 1% product designer: Dive deep into business objectives, master tech integration and humanize your…

I was recently invited to speak to a couple hundred students at a UC San Diego Cognitive Science Department event. Several other…

I rolled my eyes more than once whenever I heard my parents tell me how it was “back in the day.” Fast forward 30 years, and now I find…

She’s a human resources manager, so I believe her

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

Value creation doesn’t happen overnight, and you can’t force others to see your worth