Design

A collection of open source frameworks for helping designers and engineers to grow at work

My tips and strategies for writing effective self reviews.

Become an OKR coach and help your organization achieve success faster. Advance your career with our OKR training and certification program.

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 […]

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

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

The Design Productivity Blueprint helps people with a stake in design output ensure designers spend their time on high-value work.

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

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…

Thread by @imightbemary: Every so often I see a Twitter thread where a new manager asks for advice, and inevitably, someone in the comments below says something to the effect of, "hire awesome people, listen to...…

“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 …

11 tips for managers.

Navigating the individual contributor career path

Micromanaging your workforce is not an innovative work strategy

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

"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.

The professional networking platform showcases everything gone wrong with the attention economy

Leaders create the conditions that lead to burnout — or prevent it.

Sheet1 Product Design Career Ladder,Core Skills: User Research, Interaction Design, Information Architecture, Writing, Visual Design, Service Design, Prototyping, Front-end Development, Video and Photo Production, Concepting/Art Direction, Quantitative Research and Analysis, Animation Individua...

Here are a few resources I found helpful as I thought through this for my team. Short thread.👇🧵

Find out what a user researcher does and the skills you need to do the job.

tw: earnest sappy career advice thread sparked from an earlier conversationYears ago I developed a simple way to make decisions about staying or leaving a job. I get emotionally invested in projects and coworkers to a fault, which makes it difficult to know when to walk away.— Bhoka ✨ (@boop) January 13, 2022

Basecamp Employee Handbook. Contribute to basecamp/handbook development by creating an account on GitHub.

Tips and resources to help product designers level up.