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From Beta to Bedrock: Build Products that Stick.

As a product builder over too many years to mention, I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve seen promising ideas go from zero to hero in a few weeks, only to fizzle out within months. Financial products, which is the field I work in, are no exception. With people’s real hard-earned money on the line, user expectations running high, and a crowded market, it’s tempting to throw as many features at the wall as possible and hope something sticks. But this approach is a recipe […]

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An Holistic Framework for Shared Design Leadership

Picture this: You’re in a meeting room at your tech company, and two people are having what looks like the same conversation about the same design problem. One is talking about whether the team has the right skills to tackle it. The other is diving deep into whether the solution actually solves the user’s problem. Same room, same problem, completely different lenses. This is the beautiful, sometimes messy reality of having both a Design Manager and a Lead Designer on the same team. And if you’re wondering […]

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Healthy Eating Made Easy: Top Nutritionists Share Their Tips

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Maintaining a healthy diet can often feel like a daunting task, but it doesn’t have to be. With the help of top nutritionists, healthy eating can be made easy and enjoyable. Here are some tips from experts in the field to help you achieve a well-balanced diet: 1. Plan ahead: One of the key factors in maintaining a healthy diet is planning ahead. Nutritionist Sarah Jones suggests taking some time each week to plan out your meals and snacks. This can help you avoid making unhealthy choices […]

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Unlocking the Secret to Productivity: Tips from Successful Entrepreneurs

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Productivity is a key factor in the success of any business. Whether you are a startup founder or a seasoned entrepreneur, finding ways to maximize your output is crucial for achieving your goals and growing your business. But with so many distractions and tasks vying for our attention, how can we unlock the secret to productivity? To answer this question, we turned to successful entrepreneurs who have mastered the art of getting things done. Here are some tips and strategies they shared for increasing efficiency and productivity: […]

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5 Clever Money-Saving Tips for Budget-Conscious Consumers

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Being budget-conscious doesn’t mean you have to sacrifice on quality or enjoyment. With a little creativity and planning, you can still live your best life while saving money. Here are five clever money-saving tips for budget-conscious consumers: 1. Create a budget and track your spending: The first step to saving money is knowing where your money is going. Create a budget that outlines your income and expenses, and track your spending to see where you can cut back. You may be surprised at how much you are […]

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Asynchronous Design Critique: Giving Feedback

Feedback, in whichever form it takes, and whatever it may be called, is one of the most effective soft skills that we have at our disposal to collaboratively get our designs to a better place while growing our own skills and perspectives. Feedback is also one of the most underestimated tools, and often by assuming that we’re already good at it, we settle, forgetting that it’s a skill that can be trained, grown, and improved. Poor feedback can create confusion in projects, bring down morale, and affect […]

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Asynchronous Design Critique: Getting Feedback

“Any comment?” is probably one of the worst ways to ask for feedback. It’s vague and open ended, and it doesn’t provide any indication of what we’re looking for. Getting good feedback starts earlier than we might expect: it starts with the request.  It might seem counterintuitive to start the process of receiving feedback with a question, but that makes sense if we realize that getting feedback can be thought of as a form of design research. In the same way that we wouldn’t do any research […]

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Designing for the Unexpected

I’m not sure when I first heard this quote, but it’s something that has stayed with me over the years. How do you create services for situations you can’t imagine? Or design products that work on devices yet to be invented? Flash, Photoshop, and responsive design When I first started designing websites, my go-to software was Photoshop. I created a 960px canvas and set about creating a layout that I would later drop content in. The development phase was about attaining pixel-perfect accuracy using fixed widths, fixed […]

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Voice Content and Usability

We’ve been having conversations for thousands of years. Whether to convey information, conduct transactions, or simply to check in on one another, people have yammered away, chattering and gesticulating, through spoken conversation for countless generations. Only in the last few millennia have we begun to commit our conversations to writing, and only in the last few decades have we begun to outsource them to the computer, a machine that shows much more affinity for written correspondence than for the slangy vagaries of spoken language. Computers have trouble […]

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Sustainable Web Design, An Excerpt

In the 1950s, many in the elite running community had begun to believe it wasn’t possible to run a mile in less than four minutes. Runners had been attempting it since the late 19th century and were beginning to draw the conclusion that the human body simply wasn’t built for the task.  But on May 6, 1956, Roger Bannister took everyone by surprise. It was a cold, wet day in Oxford, England—conditions no one expected to lend themselves to record-setting—and yet Bannister did just that, running a […]

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