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Design is the art of being wrong safely

UX Designers (myself included) bristle at the implication that design is all about drawing pictures. Design is not just visual, we say. …

UX

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Design is the art of being wrong safely
Design is the art of being wrong safely
UX

7 min read


Published in Bootcamp

·Updated Jan 27

Approach job interviews like a user researcher

A lot of us are used to thinking of job interviews like exams: go in, sit down, answer the questions, and then get graded on the answers. But job interviews are also the only opportunity for you to find out whether the role will be fulfilling, if your contributions will…

Hiring

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Approach job interviews like a user researcher
Approach job interviews like a user researcher
Hiring

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Published in Bootcamp

·Jan 23

If you don’t know where to start research, start with PACT

If you’re like me and have had to quickly get up to speed on new domains, PACT is a great framework for learning everything a designer needs to know, finding opportunities for research & helping your team identify contradictions in their own mental models. In my design career, new roles…

User Research

7 min read

If you don’t know where to start research, start with PACT
If you don’t know where to start research, start with PACT
User Research

7 min read


Published in Bootcamp

·Jan 18

When hiring product designers, I look for ᴄᴀʀᴅɪᴏ

Interviewing is more of an art than a science. Design portfolios, in theory, are supposed to help with that: examples of a designer’s past work tell the interviewer how good the candidate is. Except, well, they don’t. A design is only as good as its effectiveness at addressing some problem…

UX Design

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When hiring product designers, I look for ᴄᴀʀᴅɪᴏ
When hiring product designers, I look for ᴄᴀʀᴅɪᴏ
UX Design

4 min read


Published in Bootcamp

·Jan 11

Don’t ask your users to design for you

My first UX design job was at a SaaS startup. As in many startups, the main challenge was finding product-market fit, and as in many startups, the strategy was to ask companies with deep pockets what features they would like us to build for them. Sometimes, this was done through…

Product Management

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Don’t ask your users to design for you
Don’t ask your users to design for you
Product Management

3 min read


Published in Bootcamp

·Updated Jan 12

What’s the difference between a website and a Star Destroyer? Greebles.

Outside of a few baroque design trends, “function defines the form” has generally been an unassailable axiom. When UX designers put cursor to canvas they typically make their design decisions based on a conceptual model of the objects and tasks involved. Those tasks form the constraints of what a product…

UX Design

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What’s the difference between a website and a Star Destroyer? Greebles.
What’s the difference between a website and a Star Destroyer? Greebles.
UX Design

4 min read


Published in Bootcamp

·Updated Jan 8

GPT isn’t going to replace designers. But it’s coming for the users.

Every once in a while, we get hype about some new breakthrough in AI that will replace this job or that job. In the case of design, those tools have consistently flopped. …

Design Thinking

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GPT isn’t going to replace designers. But it’s coming for the users.
GPT isn’t going to replace designers. But it’s coming for the users.
Design Thinking

4 min read

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