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My experiences and thoughts around Product and Innovation.
What being a UX Mentor taught me about leadership
Are you a UX manager, mentor, leading a small design team, or taking on more responsibility in your job as a Designer? This advice is for you. I want to share three things I learned about leadership in my two years as a UX Mentor at CareerFoundry. Besides my...
Why Your Career Might Be Stuck
Are you feeling stuck in your career? Many people can make the very easy mistake of focusing more on improving their weaknesses than building their strengths. We get conditioned early on in school that improving our shortcomings will result in good grades. But once...
How to Help Junior UX Designers Thrive
New courses like the Google Coursera Google UX Design Certificate course and boot camps like CareerFoundry create an influx of Junior UX Designers in the tech industry. Senior Designers and Design Management need to develop strategies to help this next...
How to Transfer Your Skills as an Architect Into UX Design
UX Design is one of the best-paying and future-proofed careers you can have right now. The job title UX Designer made it onto the Glassdoor list Best Jobs in America 2021. Many people want to switch into this fantastic field but don't know where to look or how to get...
How to Get Promoted As a UX Designer
Here are three short principles that helped me get quickly promoted as a UX Designer into a design leadership role. Disclaimer Note Getting promoted as a UX Designer in a design agency with 20 UX designers can be much different than in a small startup. UX maturity of...
Why Prototyping is The Most Important Communication Tool for A UX Designer
Communicating ideas as a UX designer is a vital skill. Yet sometimes, I find myself struggling with it. Especially discussing design ideas in meetings without anything tangible for people to react to can be a waste of time. Discussions remain theoretical,...
The B2B UX Design Dilemma and How to Overcome it
Most UX literature and education focuses on B2C products. As a Product Designer in B2B, I am trying to apply the B2C-centric school of thought into my daily design process and have some challenges. UX in B2B is a different game. I call it the B2B UX Design dilemma....
How a UX Guild Can Boost UX Maturity in Your Organization
When my former CTO asked me to create a UX Guild, I was skeptical. Yet another obligation to sink my time. Today my UX Guild is one of my favorite intrapreneurial passion projects. I want to share my experience with you how this project turned out into a successful UX...
How Designers and Developers Should (Not) Collaborate
One of the best moments in my job is when I can join Sprint Reviews - the Development Team is presenting their production-ready work. It's when you see your designs come to life being part of a customer-facing product. Many times, however, I'm sitting in these...
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