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Will AI take designers’ jobs?
Hardly a week goes by these days without some AI meme trending on social media or lighting up the blogosphere. A few weeks ago, it was the ‘Studio Ghibli’ and ‘vibe coding’ trends. As I write this, a...
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9 non-UX skills every UX designer should learn
Being a great UX designer takes more than just technical basics. Sure, you need to master skills like research, UI design, prototyping, interaction design, and usability testing. But these are table...
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How to work on great products in low UX maturity environments
If your organization overlooks UX research, does not prioritize usability, or treats design as decoration, you might be working in a low UX maturity environment. Low UX maturity refers to...
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Your MVP didn’t fail; you didn’t set it up to teach you anything
We’ve all read “The Lean Startup.” We get the theory. But when it’s time to ship, somehow we mess it up anyway. The number one mistake? Treating the MVP like a mini version of the final product —...
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Why some designers stay stuck at mid-level — And the truth about design titles
TL;DR — I thought doing great work was enough to get promoted. It wasn’t. This is what I learned about visibility, value, and taking control. At my first job as a UX designer, I was promoted from...
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PM mentorship: The missing skill in product leadership
Everyone talks about stakeholder management and roadmaps — but knowing how to develop other PMs is one of the hardest, most impactful skills to learn. You can easily find documentation, training, and...
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Async standups: Pros, cons, do they make sense for you?
Daily standups (or dailies, daily scrums, daily meetings, however you call them) have been a core element of the software development process for years. Popularized by agile practices and the scrum...
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How to pick your battles as a designer
If you look at some of the top companies in the world — Apple, Airbnb, IBM, Netflix — what do they all have in common? They are prime examples of design-led companies. Being design-led means more than...
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How product leaders adapt frameworks like the 5 Whys
As a product leader, you live in a space full of problems. Although it’s your job to fix them, you need to do more than address symptoms – you need to remediate the cause of issues. Many product...
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Profit center vs. cost center: How company structure affects engineering
Understanding the differences between profit and cost centers in engineering teams is essential for developers. The two have fundamentally different mentalities in the way they operate. As a result,...
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3 case studies of why speed isn’t always best for your product
In the realm of product development, you often hear people celebrate speed. Many PMs take pleasure in how fast they can build, iterate, and ship products. The iconic startup phrase “Move fast and...
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How design specialties can work against your career
When generative AI tools like ChatGPT and Midjourney began gaining attention, many designers got nervous. Was AI going to take over our jobs? UI specialists, in particular, felt the pressure....
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Why no one reads your product docs, and how to fix it
People don’t avoid reading your product documentation because they’re lazy. They avoid it because it wasn’t written for them. It was written to be written. In every product team, well-intentioned...
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What does a UX manager really do?
Today’s organizations are so structurally varied that it’s impossible to describe a “typical” organization. Especially as companies scale, their organizational charts shift to fit new needs. One UX...
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How AI is changing customer acquisition
The rise of AI tools and solutions has been one of the most impactful changes to the way people build, scale, monetize, and grow products in years. There’s simply no area of product management that...
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How picking up Canva can level up your PM work
I heard the song “Clocks” by Coldplay the other day and it transported me back to a video I made senior year of college for one of my clubs. I had reams of raw footage from our community service...
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How AI prototyping tools are changing PM workflows
Back when I worked at Zalando, a European ecommerce retailer, I kicked off the building of a new content management system that would serve 30 million daily active users. This was meant to replace an...
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10 UX design challenges to level up your skillset
Challenging yourself is a great way to grow as a UX designer — whether it’s by designing something completely unexpected or testing a new research method. UX design challenges can help you build new...
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7 design feedback questions to retire — and what to ask instead
In the UI/UX design process, work doesn’t end after one iteration. Designers continuously improve product designs until they meet the best version through multiple feedback-driven cycles. Each design...
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It’s time to break the cycle of developer elitism
Software development is a field that moves at a breakneck pace. Only a few years ago, we hadn’t heard of AI yet. Now it seems like it’s front and center of everyone’s minds these days. Trying to stay...
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