You’ve meticulously crafted the perfect design. You’ve thought through every workflow, interaction, and pixel. You’re three days away from shipping your work and the CEO (or your product manager) says: This is great. But I think we need to be a lot more transformative. Let’s reimagine

Micromanagement kills motivation and joy in every type of work. Design is no exception. Recently, I heard a story from a young designer that some of you may relate to: Imagine you work at a small company. One gray fall morning you sit down with a warm cup of freshly

AI powered software is “streamlining design” all over the industry. The level of anxiety in the design community is palpable. Newbies are evaluating alternate careers and experienced designers are creating exit plans. Sure, we love design but many of us can’t afford to go broke due to AI. We

Do you ever feel like you're dead slow at designing? Like you're sitting there for hours, sometimes the whole day, without generating reasonable results while deadlines creep inexorably closer? Sometimes it's a real struggle to get in a flow state. That's a

There is nothing more disappointing than pouring time and effort into a design and having the implemented result look nothing like what you intended. It's a tale as old as time. You have a sinking feeling that your developer handoff is imperfect, that there are best practices you&

You got into design to create things. You derive joy from crafting and delivering beautiful experiences to customers. And yet now that you're in the tech trenches, you find that 80% of your time is spent defending your designs unsuccessfully against critiques from developers and product managers. Perhaps

When you start a new role as a designer, you start getting a lot of surface level, generic advice about how to ramp up. People will vaguely tell you to understand the business or the tech stack, but you’re looking for something concrete and tactical that will help you