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How do we approach designing experiences for something as complex and black-box as the metaverse?The answer is, we need to go back to the basics of immersive design.As a designer, you hear it wherever you go: the...

Poor collaboration is all around us. Change how you communicate to get to mutual understanding faster.During the past nine years of building products, every good product manager, designer, and engineer I’ve worked...

The less sexy, yet frequently more rewarding parts of the role and careerPhoto by Alex Green: https://www.pexels.com/photo/crop-faceless-multiethnic-interviewer-and-job-seeker-going-through-interview-5699475/What are...

On asking the existential questions about a UXR’s purpose, being a thought partner, and bringing questions, not just answersThis is the second post in a bi-weekly UXR Q+A series. Submit your questions in the...

A systems viewpoint and how self-organizing principles can help.Photo by Jason Goodman on UnsplashMicromanagement… It feels like a four-letter word. Something heavily denounced in the gospels of management...

10 Rules & Best Practices when using FigmaFigma is used by most design teams today, but not all designers utilize it to the full capacity and get the most out of what the tool has to offer.In this article, I would...

SourceIn part thirteen of this series, I want to help you negotiate effectively in compensation discussions as a product manager. Here is the previous post from this series.In negotiations, “win-win is a belief in...

Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.“Design can never truly be free of culture, gender, and bias. Our pursuit of a neutral and universal design may bring us to modernism, minimalism,...

Technology as a barrier to the beachI went to the beach a couple of weeks ago.Beaches are hard to come by on the bald Canadian prairies, so this was a rare treat for my wife and I. Having moved from a coastal city, we...

A memorable product story is invaluable for a startup. It helps your team unite around a common vision and it works miracles when communicating with customers or investors.“The most powerful person in the world is the...

I’ve been playing with AI-generated art via Midjourney and DALL-E, which take text prompts and turn them into images. That may not sound impressive, but the results show otherwise:(I included the prompts for these at...

The zero-UI and why it is crucial to the future of design.Image by Doni Haris on Pexels.For better or worse, a large amount of design work these days is still visual. This makes sense since the most essential products...

While keeping things simple for your design teamsThe Figma component properties update has been out since May 2022 and has the capability to transform how components are created, organised and maintained across...

Trend forecasting for product managers — how to predict the futureBoost your product growth by predicting what comes next.Photo by Austin Chan on UnsplashPeople change, markets change, and the whole world...

The fonts you include in your designs can dramatically shape how they impact your audience and what emotions they evoke. Typography also drives a handful of other cognitive processes that often get...

Photo by natasaadzic, Getty ImagesQ: Who in product should be thinking about accessibility?A: Everyone.From product managers, to designers, to developers, to marketers, to care, to the leadership team.Here’s a great...

How can we bring more playfulness into our work lives?Ronak Patel on Unsplashed.comWhat is the designer’s soul?Designers are naturally curious, creative, and playful. They are not afraid to challenge the status quo...

Zoning in on grayscale for data visualizationGetting it Right in Black & White before ColorizingA Grayscale is an achromatic color harmony that ranges from pure White on the lightest end to pure Black on the darkest...