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The Impact of Design with KPIs

Ok, so you are sitting in a meeting room with decision makers, presenting not just amazing mockups and user flows, but also data that reveals the exact impact of your design decisions...

Telling the Story of Design ROI

Imagine this: You're the design leader, filled with ideas that could transform your company's product. But there's a challenge approaching fast: budget season. You need to make a compelling case for the resources your team needs to bring those

Critiquing the Critique

Hopefully one of the most important parts of any designer’s work life is critique. They have become second nature but in my experience are never done the same way at any organization, or even inside larger organizations. The role I was in before my current allowed me to see how different design teams facilitate a design critique. The majority were doing what we might call the traditional design critique. What do I mean by this?...

Designing for Everyone: Inclusive Design Essentials

Just my thoughts and ramblings on some great places to start with inclusive design.Let's define inclusive design.Inclusive design is design that considers the full range of human diversity with respect to ability, language, culture, gender, age, and other forms of human difference. (Inclusive Design Research Centre)In less formal terms, inclusive design is design that recognizes that people who use, view, or...

The Handoff

As my mentoring or classes end I always get questions around design-developer handoff. It has become such a part of my process that I don’t really think about it until I’m asked.We, as designers, are more concerned about UX, UI, graphics, images, typography, and so on but developers have a completely...