When you get Designy, you get a whole new mindset when confronted with product design challenges
Managing Anxious Stakeholders When you walk into a situation with an anxious stakeholder, how can you provide stability and still lead design?
Time to Get Designy You face challenges as a product designer every day, so it’s time to take a step back and get a fresh mindset.
Designing AI Features to be Invisible The pressure on designers to use AI for the design process is shocking, but we need to talk about how to design AI as a feature.
The Invisible AI Feature The “AI helps me design screens faster buzz” is distracting from the real challenge of designing AI features invisibly.
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“I don’t like it!” Turn unhelpful comments into actionable design feedback No one wants to ask people to trample all over their work. Yet, there’s a simple way to get feedback you can use (and enjoy it).
Five smart reasons value-driven Product Designers need an expert coach Product design can be challenging, but collaborating with a real person can cut through the clutter and take you to the next level.
(K)no(w) Purpose, (K)no(w) Design. Go beyond guessing what stakeholders want, hone in on what matters, and make something extraordinary.
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More Than Taste How are your design tastebuds? We’ll discuss what it is, and why you need to be concerned with far more than taste.
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The “Good Enough” War of Being a Designer Whether it’s confronting ability or apathy, I have three ways you can break out of the pressure and design excellently.
Not Good Enough You’re facing internal and external pressure to be “good enough” as a designer. I discuss three ways to break through it.
The Design Power of Time There are times you must fast-forward the design process, but it always adds risk to your results. Here are three ways to use time to design well.
Tool vs. Process with Guest Charles Forman Guest designer Charles Forman and I kick the tires on a few AI product design tools to see how they help, hinder, or hide critical parts of the design process.
Spoiler Alert: Design Wins Has design disappeared? Will you simply be the “human-in-the-loop” designer reviewing AI’s work? Nope, I’ve got good news.
What is Your Why? As designers, we need to define purpose in order to make strong design decisions, but what drives you to be a designer?
Think. Act. Feel. What drives your decision making: do you start with thinking or feeling? Each approach has different results but one is the product designer’s super power.
What does it mean UX is transforming into AX? User Experience (UX) designers will need to become Agentic Experience (AX) designers, but is that the inevitable reality?
Staying Aligned with Andreea Lotak My guest Andreea Lotak and I talk about aligning designs with stakeholders—do you have it, do you know when you’ve lost it, and how do you get it back?
The one thing that stops designers dead in their tracks It’s not the lack of inspiration (that’s true). It’s not imposter syndrome (that happens). It’s something we forget to ask for.