Craft & career.
Writing, reading, creativity and the soft skills that make a designer better year after year.
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How to Design Forms People Actually Finish
Ask first and charge last, group the quick questions, and give every screen the right Continue. Seven lessons from a passport application and a psychiatry sign-up, each with the before and after.
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100 Things I Learned From Designing Tech Products for 12 Years
What 12 years of designing products taught me about users, human behaviour, words, startups, clients and AI.
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Why Consistent Writing Makes You a Better Designer
How writing made me a better designer, leader and thinker
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5 Soft Skills Every Product Designer Should Master
Why communication can matter more than your portfolio
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My Reading List for 2018
The best books I read this year
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Why Your Nike Redesign is Bad
A letter to myself
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Why Small Teams Win And Bigger Ones Fail
How many people do you need to design a great product?
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Copywriting is Interface Design
The importance of copy in design of digital products
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10 Small Design Mistakes We Still Make
Don’t Make Me Think by Steve Krug
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The Truth Behind Being a Creative Person
Picasso, Churchill, Balenciaga, Tiffany, Edison
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12 Tips on How to Write Great Copy for Your Product by David Ogilvy
Or how to write text that sells.
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35 Quotes on Design That Will Fuel Up Your Creativity
Creativity is all around us in all the forms and shapes.
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25 Lessons From Warren Buffett & Charlie Munger That Will Change Your Ideas About Business & Life
What 50 years at Berkshire Hathaway teach about business and life
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Pixar’s Braintrust — Why It’s Important for a Creative Culture
Should people be honest? Almost everybody will say yes.
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11 most important things I learned in 2017
A year in review
