Speaking & Comms

What we can do to mitigate the downsides

Ever felt pressure to speed up your design process? Here’s how to address unrealistic expectations and foster a shared understanding with stakeholders, ensuring everyone is aligned on the path to a successful delivery.

A comprehensive set of useful and semi-universal UX copywriting and style guidelines and examples to reference while designing and building products and interfaces.

What’s a design that doesn’t excite or arouse interest in users? You’d say creating anything that doesn’t evoke human emotion is futile…

How to write like a content designer — and why it matters.

How to spot miscommunication and how to become a better communicator

There are sixteen stories you need to master as a PM. Let’s talk about them so you can master the art.

Disagreements can save time and energy by preventing critical mistakes and course correcting before it’s too late

I had 50 painfully uncomfortable conversations with strangers in NYC to practice being assertive under pressure. Here’s what I learned.

We can use the sense-making features and logic of “storytelling” in product discovery and delivery to test ideas and decisions.

Taking a diplomatic approach to presenting negative research findings is essential.

Instead of engaging in healthy dialogue when it matters most, we often engage in our worst behaviour.

It may have changed in the past decade, but blogging isn't dead. It's just time to revive it a little. Old-school, unpretentious blogs are the answer.

And yes, Google made me do it.

Zalando blog writer, Deanne B, shares her perspective on the storytelling wisdom we can apply to the craft of product design.

Many believe that if you write fast, you will deliver poor results. Can we think of ways to deliver high-quality writing at work that…

Designers often overshare when it’s not in their best interests to

A quick way to make use of “people don’t read, they scan’”

Avoid potentially embarrassing situations at functions or while networking by remembering this brilliant method.

As product leaders, saying no is vital but tough, especially to our boss. The better way to do it is by striving to say yes first.

Understand narrative and tension to engage them with your presentations

Reading is a primary form of communication for most people. But how do we read? And what should designers know?

‘Telling it like it is’ can make you a jerk if you focus only on stating the truth without caring about the pain it can cause others…

How do we conduct UX research when there is no or only limited access to users? Here are some workarounds to run UX research or make a strong case for it. An upcoming part of [Smart Interface Design Patterns](https://smart-interface-design-patterns.com).

Disambiguating periods, commas, semicolons, ellipses, parentheticals, and em dashes

The vast majority of writers don’t know what they mean when they say “creative writing.”

How to understand, generate, and tap into organisational strategic narratives.

Barbara Minto’s ‘Pyramid Principle’ is a great tool to give clarity, impact and consistency to your corporate communications—from your most routine business email all the way to your most strategic corporate storytelling.

Conquer public speaking and advance your Product Design career with vocal delivery, language techniques, and narrative. Oh, and Pewdiepie.

The value of “minimal social interactions” for human happiness and belonging.