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"How do I retain my best employees?" Your immediate answers, as a leader, might be to focus on the following: (1) Salary (2) Career growth + promotions (3) Employee recognition. While all valuable, these areas overlook a primary factor in employee retention: The Work Itself.

Getting to Senior in UX Cyd Harrell, UI23

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Micromanaging your workforce is not an innovative work strategy

The distraction of social media can lead to screams of ‘let me just get on with my work.’ For designers, the demand to be physically and digitally ‘out there’ is endless. But what if that is not how you are, or why you even wanted to design? Beyond the likes, followers, networking and connecting, for many people the fundamental issue is: to what extent is public recognition a measure of success?

Nobody warned me how challenging being the Head of Design at an early-stage startup would be. Then again, nobody warned me how much I would love the challenge. How did I get to this point? The journey started for me over a year ago. I had spent a small part of my earlier career managing a team and

A review of challenges inherent in public thought leadership in in-house design teams.

The title of this article is misleading. It’s not actually very important for an Engineering Manager to use career laddering, per se, or my process. It

Netflix Culture: Freedom & Responsibility

My dad led an organization of over 300,000 employees. When I took on my biggest marketing & events team to date (35 employees) I asked him how the *heck* he did it. Here's what he said and what helped me every day. 🧵

Navigating the individual contributor career path

Startup friendly pricing and timelines – Work with top talent from companies like Spotify, Uber and Snapchat to design & build a new brand, pitch deck, website, mobile apps and more.

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Let’s talk about what early-career UX folks should put in their portfolio and in interviews, especially when searching for the first job.

Chronic stress was rampant even before the pandemic. Leaders can’t ignore it any longer.

“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years …

A survey of 557 UX and design professionals reveals themes in the structure, size, alignment, and impact of design teams.

I haven’t written any blog posts for a while. For me, writing rarely receives the same priority as a mountain of other things on my to-do…

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Getting a seat at the table doesn’t mean you need to abandon your desk.

One of the most common requests I’ve received over the years is to share a good job description for a product manager of an empowered product team. And for about as long as I can remember, I’ve forwarded on the job description that Google uses. It’s still a decent description, but I also think it’s […]