UX / Product Design

This approach to productivity allows you to build toward your goals little by little.

Dealing with non-design stakeholders can be tricky, I’ve outlined my take on the sweet spot between adapting and level-setting…

Explore the debate on coding for UX/UI designers, weighing pros and cons to decide if it’s a skill worth adding to your design toolkit.

How to keep UX maturity when discussing something that you stand for, and not slam the door after another useless meeting.

We get it, you live and breath UX, but you don’t need to be a party pooper 24/7

People blame copy when landing pages aren’t converting, but they forget about the design. Don’t make the same mistake.

Every day, product designers make lots of small decisions, from micro-decisions pertaining to minor design details to overarching project…

...to arrive somewhere more interesting

After finalizing and polishing their work in Figma, designers often expect developers to magically make sense of it. However, as that's not usually the case, things can end up looking pretty grim. What's going wrong?

Startup Humane has debuted their Ai Pin, an $800 wearable AI assistant meant to be something like a smartphone without a screen. First-wave tech reviewers are all over the thing, and the reviews have been damning. There's two main issues with this first-of-its-kind device. The first problem, according to

A multi-year design journey to rearchitect Teams from the ground up

10 ideas I’ve learned from Thinking Fast and Slow

To be a good designer, you must enhance your inner artist and showcase it in your proposals through emotional and visual design to connect and infuse soul into your proposals.

People claim to want unconventional solutions, but really, what they want is a sure thing that feels familiar

Don Norman explains gaps in human-centered design, throws shade at Apple, and believes we will save the world.

Bias and assumptions in user research refer to the ways our thinking can sometimes be influenced without us even realizing it. It means we…

Sometimes, as a product designer, I often remind myself to get into the habit of reflection… Is the design of a well-known company always…

Pablo Picasso's The Bull is a series of eleven lithographs created in 1945. It depicts the bull at various stages of abstraction.

Learning from Picasso's bull to avoid empty minimalism

Can design be used to drive superior returns in private equity?

… and how we should think about it.

The real value of design doesn’t come from building better products. It comes from creating better product-building methods.

Introduction

After two years in the industry, I’ve learned a valuable lesson: while designers thrive on diving straight into Figma or FigJam to craft…

With AI poised to manage complex design jobs, the appeal of simpler times grows stronger.

The shift from human-centered to community-powered

Is there room for creativity in a field where following the standard is the hallmark of good design?

In order to move beyond duplicated design systems, app-centric interfaces, and thousands of wasted hours of manual work, some things need…

The ultimate goal of product design has to be well-being — not delight.