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5 ways to break through design-by-committee

8 tips to keep your hiring manager engaged

7 brutal truths to accept as quickly as possible (to accelerate your product design career growth)

3 tips for professional mindfulness

3 quick lessons about product metrics

3 tips for creating a design system

How to pick between features vs. UX

My 3-step framework for making any design decision

5 types of effective designers and their superpowers

The Permissionless Collaborator

My 10-minute UI evaluation checklist

How to sell designs to your team with my 3-step "bridge-building" technique

5 books that prepared me for Lead Product Designer

How to create design handovers that don't suck

My scrappy method for proving user tests are not expensive

Search is dead. 3 patterns for next-gen Search UX

6 Patterns for Drilling into Data

How to influence teams and win customers