Case Studies
Building Phosphorus to give enterprises full visibility into their xIoT environment
Role: Director, Product Design • Industry: Network / Cybersecurity
Design Ops
Installing Storybook for React (Part I: Designer Edition)
I'm currently exploring options for ways to maintain the Phosphorus design system, which I've been calling 'Mineral'. A team that I worked with a while back were looking at leveraging Storybook at the time but they never fully got around to implementing it. Getting
Design orgs and the centralized, consultancy model
Design leaders that structure and operate their teams as if they are a centralized, internal consultancy within an agile product organization will rarely make an impact. From my experience, this doesn't work for several reasons, one of them being that it makes it difficult to consistently build the
Case Studies
Simplifying the payroll data migration process with UltiPro Launch
Role: Lead product designer • Industry: HR / Payroll
Growth
Specializing Too Early In Your Design Career Can Limit You
Don't specialize early on in your design career. Start broad and learn as much as you can. Be comfortable in every stage of the product dev lifecycle - research, strategy, interaction design, visual design, etc. Learn to understand what steps are necessary for your project and what steps
Product Design
Let’s talk about designing for better security
As designer’s, we put heavy emphasis on designing for experiences that bring both value and delight to our end users. We talk about things like ethical decision-making in design, accessibility and inclusion…all very important topics that need to be discussed. That said, there’s very little discussion around
Design Ops
Project Discovery, Team Alignment, Co-Design & Free Lunch
It goes without saying, proper planning and early team alignment helps to decrease the chances of projects going off the rails. That said, it still amazes me how little time and investment product teams actually put into having proper project kickoffs. By “proper”, I don’t mean a big groupthink
A well-rounded book list for Designers, Design Leaders & Product Managers
Here’s a list of book recommendations for people who contribute to the creation of digital products and/or services. It spans topics from user research to design to psychology and business and innovation — covering a broad spectrum that I feel can make any design practitioner, design leader or product
Case Studies
Redesigning Mailchimp's visual editor to simplify and increase campaign creation rates
Role: Lead product designer • Industry: Marketing / Small Business
Product Strategy
This thing called a Minimum Viable Product (MVP)
I hear it being thrown around quite a lot these days. Do they really mean “V1”? Here are a few things you should know regarding the concept of the“Minimum Viable Product”: The Lean Startup Eric Ries wrote this book called “The Lean Startup”. The term derived from the idea
Case Studies
Providing whole home Wi-Fi coverage to consumers with Luma
Role: Lead Product Designer / Researcher • Industry: Technology
Product Design
Designing for Consumer IoT Products
Consumers are arguably the most difficult market to design for. They may not be inherently interested in a certain technology and unlike employees or workers, they have a choice whether or not they’ll use your product or service. Designing digital products for consumers is hard, no doubt. Add a