Designy Digest
Designy Digest / 001
Why isn’t Ai creating order in our software, should product designers adopt Ai design tools, and are you replacing Ai help for strategy?
Darrell Estabrook
The Daily Sprint
Making Messy Design Clear
Not all stakeholders understand the value of design because it seems messy. Designers want a step by step process. Both are extremes, but the Designy Framework is a clear approach.
The Daily Sprint
Design for Value
In this podcast we explore how it’s not enough to just design well, and ask: Are you making design decisions which generate value?
The Daily Sprint
Grow Your Influence as a Designer
What kind of influence do you have as a Product Designer? It’s more than you might expect.
The Daily Sprint
What is the Daily Sprint?
A podcast answering: how do you stretch your thinking, push new ideas, and deliver design excellence into your products?
Lead with Design
Are you looking to grow in design leadership?
I’ve been a Product Designer for 30 years, working on software teams at places like IBM and Cigna, but today is a great day to level up.
Decide with Choices
“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).
Design with Purpose
My Why
I’ve built my whole career around refining a purpose-driven approach for design leaders. That’s no accident.
Designy Digest
When you use GenAI for coding, you’re now a Code Director.
With GenAI in the production seat, you have to take a step back from hands-on and start directing vision.
Lead with Design
“Do we need designers for our internal apps?”
UX design is happening on your product with or without a dedicated designer. So, who's making your product’s UX design decisions?
Design with Purpose
“UX is dead; Long live UX” Why we struggle to define product design
Trying to explain what the product team does is like trying to carry a handful of eggs.
Design Thought
How big is too big? Get valuable design software requirements from large group meetings
Getting useful design requirements from large meetings is about as likely as winning a multi-stage cycling race on an exercise bike.