Newsletter 💔 Layoffs "Your career is defined by your skills and how you’ve used them, not by any external measure of your progress." - Julie Zhuo.
UX Career 🎠 Negative space spectrum Finding the right balance with information density is an ongoing struggle in the enterprise UX world.
Newsletter My New FREE Email Course on How to Get Hired in UX Happy New Year, everyone! 🎄🎉 Ready to up your game and achieve greatness? 😎 My email course is here to help.
Newsletter ❓"Have you worked with a UX designer before?" Overcommunicate to minimize the risk of misunderstanding.
Newsletter 🖇️ Consistency is important for good UX Consistency in design is a very important factor, more pros than cons.
UX Career 4 Reasons Why Companies Launch Fast and Sacrifice UX The world of business has many competing priorities and finite resources. It's all about difficult choices.
Archive UX Talks Podcast - Josh Loh, Full list of published design team profiles [Archive] Also, we discuss the challenges of building a community, and also the benefits they can bring.
Archive Why are companies low-balling you, Christopher Behr, The portfolio case study is broken, Design @ Clio [Archive] I’ve been in this situation a few times and every time I heard this, my enthusiasm went significantly down. In one case, I negotiated and was able to move 15%-ish higher..
Archive Why are startups looking for more experience, how language shapes the way we think, Design @ Impala [Archive] Every company is unique and there could be a number of reasons for seeking more senior designers to hire. I’ve seen this many times.
Archive Design @ Copperleaf, Developer hand-off, Contrast Figma plugin [Archive] Years ago, before I got into UX, I was designing websites, and the hand-off process was rather unreliable (in retrospect).
UX Career Design @ Polyform, What makes a good designer, Spellchecker Figma plugin [Archive] "Be the senior you wanted when you were a junior."
Archive 🔮 The future of UX Career and My SoulTeam [Archive] I have pivoted back to the original vision that I started back in 2019. The new value proposition: A place where UX designer across the world can discover cool design teams and find the right team for them.
Archive MST 2.0 Announcement [Archive] I started My SoulTeam a while ago with a clear goal - to help UX designers in Vancouver (like myself) discover cool design teams where I would like to work at.
UX Career Curse of knowledge, Designing for people with low vision When talking to others, the person assumes that the other person has enough expertise to understand what they are saying.
UX Career Self-serving bias, Designing for blind people People tend to attribute success to their own abilities and efforts, but blame external factors for their failures.
Archive "Get Hired in UX" Manual [Archive] I am thinking of creating a manual that would help UX folks land a job faster.
Psychology The Tail End I realized that my life was too short to be unhappy at a job and that nobody else but me will protect my own sanity.
Psychology No one cares about your opinion, Hot hand and Sunken cost fallacies Stakeholder: I’d like to see that banner to the top — that will be better.Designer: I agree that we believe this information is what’s most important to customers — is that where you are coming from?
Psychology Podcast announcement, Gambler's fallacy, Faulty generalization After observing different design leaders sharing their advice with the younger designers, and realizing that my experience and takeaways were not aligned with that advice, I got curious.
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