How to specify your components so that your team can implement them with ease.
Overview
As modern designers, we have a responsibility to design components that not only look good and behave correctly, but that our teams, devs specifically, can implement with relative ease.
Listen, you don’t want your devs to…
The importance of designing for both instant and delayed gratification to garner higher engagement.
TL; DR:
Give your users cake now and cake later or risk losing their business. Don’t make them dig for it, give them cake right now, and promise them more cake as they use your product.
Overview
Users are…
Some things every designer should know on how to improve their portfolio and massively boost their chances of getting hired.
Overview
Most of us think of our portfolios as a curated anthology of our works, and by definition, we’d be right.
That said, I’ve found recently that more and more employers…
My dead honest review of Sprint by Jake Knapp, how it can help you, and why you might want to check it out.
Overview
When it comes to product idea discovery & validation books, you would be hard-pressed to find a better title than Sprint.
Today, I’m going to share with…
An brief, honest review of “Obviously Awesome,” and how it can help you position your next product.
How to get to the root of your UX discovery to design better products and experiences.
Overview
As with any field of study, UX spans both a broad and deep gamut of technical knowledge, paradigms, patterns, and methods that can leave a person wondering if they’ve really done all that they…
A quick and dirty overview of how to compel users to act towards their own benefit.
Overview
Especially in the UX field, we are constantly called to balance the needs/wants of our users, collaborate with those needs to meet business goals, while gently guiding our users to one set of decisions…
My absolute favorite questions that I love to ask users to garner impactful insight.
Overview
As designers, we all have different aspects of the the job that we like. …
The creeping, dangerous problem with Figma variants that most designers don’t know about.
Overview
Variants in Figma are an absolute game-changer, and can save you a ton of time when designing across multiple platforms, formats, and use-cases.
The trouble is that Figma variants have a few fatal flaws that can cause…
How to setup responsive layout grids for virtually any project.
Overview
For designers, the grid serves as a foundational tool for essentially every project we touch.
The problem is, things have gotten a lot more complicated since the days of strictly print design, and with the advent of the modern web…
