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Building a Personal Brand as a Designer: What Works and What Doesn’t

Personal branding is one of those topics that sounds like it belongs to influencers or self-help speakers. But for designers, especially those working independently or trying to stand out in a competitive field … …
July 9, 2025
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Quiet Influence: How Senior ICs Lead Without the Title

You don’t need “Lead” or “Principal” or “Director” in your title to have real influence on a product team…or any design team for that matter. Some of the most impactful designers I’ve worked with …
June 29, 2025
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AI & Design: How I See Artificial Intelligence Changing the Way We Design

I'm not going to lie, the first time I used generative fill in Adobe on one of my photos I was blown away. Was it perfect? Absolutely NOT ... but it was pretty darn …
June 6, 2025
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Designing for Healthcare: Why UX Can Change a Life

In healthcare, meaningful UX isn’t just about smoother interactions or cleaner interfaces … it can be the difference between confusion and clarity, frustration and trust, delay and timely care. When the experience is better, …
June 1, 2025
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The Future of Design Tools … and Why I’m Not Chasing Every New One.

I’ve been a designer long enough to see more than a few tools come and go. Without dating myself, I can remember designing UI with a little Fireworks followed by LOTS of Photoshop. I …
May 24, 2025
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Saying “No” is a super power: What Designers Should Push Back On

Early in my career, I thought great designers were the ones who said yes. Yes to features, yes to timelines, yes to being helpful, flexible, and easy to work with. It took years … …
May 18, 2025
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Why Good UX Isn’t Always Pretty

Looks aren’t everything when it comes to real-world design Not long ago, I was wrapping up a design review with a client when a stakeholder asked, “Can we make it look better, it's kinda …
May 11, 2025
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Mastering Client Communication: How to Get Stakeholders to Buy Into Design

As designers, we like to believe that great work speaks for itself. But here’s the truth: it rarely does. I’ve seen brilliant design solutions die in meetings simply because they weren’t communicated the right …
May 4, 2025
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Design Handoff Doesn’t Have to Suck: How to Bridge the Gap with Devs

Design handoff isn’t a finish line, it’s just … the next step in a meaningful back-and-forth. On paper, this is where a polished design makes its way to development. In reality? It’s sometimes the …
April 27, 2025
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How to Approach Digital Transformation as a Designer

“Digital transformation” has become one of those buzzy, overused phrases that tends to mean everything and nothing all at once. To some, it signals a massive tech investment. To others, it’s a cultural overhaul …
April 20, 2025
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Field Notes

"Have no fear of perfection ... you'll never reach it." - Salvador Dali "Have no fear of perfection ... you'll never reach it." - Salvador Dali "Have no fear of perfection ... you'll never reach it." - Salvador Dali "Have no fear of perfection ... you'll never reach it." - Salvador Dali "Have no fear of perfection ... you'll never reach it." - Salvador Dali "Have no fear of perfection ... you'll never reach it." - Salvador Dali "Have no fear of perfection ... you'll never reach it." - Salvador Dali "Have no fear of perfection ... you'll never reach it." - Salvador Dali "Have no fear of perfection ... you'll never reach it." - Salvador Dali "Have no fear of perfection ... you'll never reach it." - Salvador Dali

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