Design critique - classifying insights
On design critiques all feedback might be treated as equal, but that’s of course not the case, some points are more important. When doing round-robin, feedba...
Garden
Garden, a place to collect notes, half formed ideas, a thinking tool to articulate ideas, an open storage to spark discussions.
I’m aiming my garden to act as a knowledge library on my broader journey as a design leader and design professional. I’ve described in a blog post my knowledge workflow that contains some notes how the garden should function.
Discovery differs from delivery
Discovery and delivery are not just different phases in the product design process, they also differ from each other in significant ways in terms of what the...
Design innovation
There are multiple types of innovation, technology is one of these, another one is design. Design innovation can relate to many areas of a product, even up t...
Staff designers
A few notes from the Staff design, interviews with high level individual contributor designers by Brian Lovin.
UX strategy
Two chief direction for UX strategy (correlates with the two roles for design leaders, leadership and management):
Opportunity solution trees
Theresa Torres describes Opportunity solution trees as a visual way to think about working towards an outcome throughout a discovery process.
Hypothesis
Tal Raviv’s article, That’s Not a Hypothesis describes what hypothesis is in the scientific method: something we believe in, a part of the model what we beli...
Strategic vs tactical research
User research projects vary in scope, where they are on the scale depends on the goal.
Experience stories
Collecting pieces
Setting design OKRs
OKRs (for example from Radical Focus by Christina Wodtke is a good book about it) or similar goal setting techniques usually work well for focusing product t...
Design leader activities
Two useful frameworks for design leaders to describe their activities:
First three months
To get started as a design leader at a new role a few things to look out for.
Types of vision
I found the term vision a bit confusing when thinking on their role on product development. Possibly since different people understand different things when ...
Garden
Garden seems to be an emerging trend in thinking, doing knowledge work. It’s an approach that is described by multiple methodologies or frameworks and all of...
Planning design activities
Setting goals
1on1s
Initial talk
Accessibility
Being accessible is not only a good practice for legal reasons (to avoid getting sued, like the Dominos case, it’s also the right thing to do (being more inc...
Personas
About personas
Design Principles
Formulating design principles