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Design leadership

While there is nothing particular that separates UX and design leadership (and management) from the typical high-performing team management, creative teams tend to require a more creative approach to motivate designers to do their best work. Here I’ll share some of the key lessons I’ve learned along the way.

  • UX ROI and the real business value of UX: Citi case

    The Real Business Value of UX: How Bad UX Cost Citi $900 Million

    The real business value of UX, and how bad UX cost Citi $900 million. This recent development in the fintech space is an important one to address because of a few critical reasons. For example, a lot of media outlets and the Citi themselves attribute this to simple human...

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    Empathy is Not the Answer – September 2020 Design Newsletter

    “Feeling another person’s emotions does not innately make you a good person.”– Devon Price …it also makes very little difference if taken at face value. Empathy + skin in the game + long term considerations (knock-on effect, dependencies) ⇒ Solution This might seem like a controversial topic, but at...

  • Coming up with better ideas in UX

    Training the Idea Muscle for Product and UX Designers

    This week’s design tool pick is not really a product and UX design tool, but a method. I’ll showcase a powerful daily practice that will train your proverbial idea muscle. Like with any other skill ideation and coming up with the best new thing can be enhanced by repetition....

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    Simple or Easy? – August 2020 Design Newsletter

    Every decision you’ll make will land on a spectrum between 1) simple (effective) but hard to achieve, and 2) easy in the short term but awful in the long term.  As humans, we naturally default to immediate remediation actions because they are easy, but they rarely result in decent outcomes....

  • Difficult Projects and Avoiding Burnout for UX Designers

    Difficult Projects and Avoiding Burnout for UX Designers

    It might be tad ballsy to say that every one of UX designers (let’s bunch all designer types in this one) will experience difficulties in their projects and potential burnout. I’ve been there several times myself. What helped me is understanding why we tend to experience this and what...

  • UX Portfolio: How Design Hiring Managers Assess It

    UX Portfolio: How Design Hiring Managers Assess It

    Making a UX Portfolio is one of the biggest challenges user researchers, product design, and user experience professionals face. While most material you find online covers how to structure the UX case studies and make your portfolio stand out, rarely do senior designers mention one critical bit – the...

  • Past, Present and the Future Thinking

    Past, Present and the Future Thinking – June 2020 Newsletter

    The following 7 design, inspiration and other bits of interest bullets that kept me pondering during last month: Before covering what’s next, let’s first look into the past year or so to better understand the underlying themes then it comes to design, tech and customer experience. The real MVP...

  • Let's not burn out in May, OK? - A banner for design newsletter for UX designers

    Let’s not burn out in May, OK? – May 2020 Newsletter

    The following 7 design, inspiration and other bits of interest bullets that kept me pondering during last month: I’m not going to tell you again how important it is to get a perspective and routine to maintain the positive mental outlook on things, as that was last month’s topic....

  • Distributed Design - April 2020 Newsletter

    Distributed Design – April 2020 Newsletter

    The following 7 design, inspiration and other bits of interest bullets that kept me pondering during last month: With the C-19 forcing teams to choose a more distributed and nimble approach to work, you might find one of the designers wondering how to stay productive. I love this article...

  • Running UX Workshops with Billboard Design Thinking - UX Chat

    Running UX Workshops with Billboard Design Thinking – UX Chat

    An insightful evening UX chat with a fellow design thinker, Microsoft UX architect Sean McGuire. We cover his unique approach to design thinking with Billboard Design Thinking method, best practices, his top tips to handle difficult stakeholders and answer some of your questions. This is a must-watch for new...

  • 5k Subscriber Special: QA on UX, 10 Stupid Designs, UX Portfolios and Design Goals

    5k Subscriber Special: QA on UX, 10 Stupid Designs, UX Portfolio and Design Goals

    5k subscriber special? It has been just over the year since I started publishing some of the material I initially made to upskill my design team. I’m super grateful to all the viewers out there who have opted in for the UX tools, such as Axure and Sketch tutorials,...

  • Making Design System a Success - Create a Design System in Sketch

    Making Design System a Success – Create a Design System in Sketch

    In this episode for creating fully functional atomic design systems from scratch, I’ll talk about 2 vital parts making this effort a success. Too often efforts that are done in isolation and that lack necessary buy-ins tend to end up collecting dust. What was meant to be transformative new...

  • Design Systems: Getting Business Buy-in - Create a Design System in Sketch

    Design Systems: Getting Business Buy-in

    In this video, I’ll discuss the biggest issue that designers and engineers alike face when trying to introduce the very first atomic design system — getting the buy-in from the business. Some designers don’t even know where to start, others continuously struggle to convey design system value. There is...

  • Design Principles for Design Teams and Orgs - Design Tool Tuesday

    Design Principles for Design Teams and Orgs – Design Tool Tuesday

    This week’s pick: Design Principles. A collection of almost 1500 of various design principles, maxims, cover values for what specific established experience design teams stand by. This is a web app/open directory for anyone to get inspired from some of the most well-known user-centred brands out there: just in...

  • UX design leadership with condor moment

    Better UX Design Leadership with Condor Moment

    In this video, I’ll share one of the best tips and methods when it comes to better UX design leadership or any team leadership & management for that matter. Condor Moment is a technique that has been added to British Army’s leadership handbook as a method to make better...

  • QA on UX tools, ageism in the industry, ux tools and design systems

    1k Subscriber Special: Q&A on UX Career, Ageism, Design Systems and UX Tools

    1k Subscriber Special? It has been a few weeks since we’ve got there! At this point the subscriber count has doubled and I’m super grateful to all the viewers out there who have opted in for the UX tools, such as Axure and Sketch tutorials, UX career and process...


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