Become a Fireproof Designer
One day Anthropic’s Fable 5 is available and the next it’s gone. How can you become a fireproof designer in such instability?
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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.
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.
Designy Digest / 005
Design process and genAI, a missed design leadership opportunity, and how to use the design power of time
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 way 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.
The Daily Sprint
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?
The Daily Sprint
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.
AI & Design
What does it mean UX is transforming into AX?
User Experience (UX) designers will need to become Agentic Experience (AX) designers, but it that the inevitable reality?
The Daily Sprint
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?
Design with Purpose
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.
The Daily Sprint
Never a Wrong Design
Today we’re talking about those times your design was totally wrong in a stakeholder design review, what went wrong and how to prevent it from happening again.
Lead with Design
10 character traits of an effective design leader
When you’re a leading design, you're in the spotlight by default. Cultivate these traits whether you’re a current or aspiring design leader.
The Daily Sprint
Leading by Design
Good, solid leadership is in short supply, but you can step up and be one of those leaders. Here are three of my top-ten character traits of an effective design leader.
Designy Digest
Designy Digest / 004
The product design AI headlines keep amping up the skill fear, you already have what you need to succeed, and don’t stop learning to hone those design instincts.
The Daily Sprint
Essential Skills Beyond the Tools
Product design tools are changing every week, but today we’re talking about the top 5 product design skills you need that go beyond the tools you use.
Designy Digest
Designy Digest / 003
The buzz on product design genAI demos is wide but not deep, I offer my own demo, GTPZero has an in-page LinkedIn detector, and a new course from Designy Academy.
The Daily Sprint
When Design Decisions Matter
Today we’re talking about the thinking that drives design decisions. What happens when you turn your design decisions over to AI?