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- Management Values I Didn’t Expect to Learn Design management is harder (and better) than I thought
- Designers: We’ll all be design engineers in a year And that’s a good thing!
- How I review design work Defining what "good design” actually looks like.
- Move fast and break things that can be fixed Relax, it’s only computers.
- Why you should have a brag document It’s your secret weapon for performance reviews and job interviews
- How I Interview Product Designers I’ve been part of the interviewing teams before, but this is my first time being the hiring manager. It’s been quite a learning experience.
- Why it’s important to have downtime at work
- How to design climate-friendly emails How sustainable email design can help the planet.
- ‘Doing Strategy’ as a Product Designer Business and strategy are not taught in design school and it’s not something every designer is drawn to, but senior designers should know the basics and be able to communicate the value of design from a business POV.
- How Designers and Developers Can Stand out in a Job Interview My talk from Parcel Unpacked.
- From Senior Designer to Lead Designer: Advance Your Career Without Becoming a Manager If not just a pixel-pusher, then what else?
- Product Design Interview Questions Questions I ask candidates in product design interviews that give me the strongest signal about what they'd bring to our team and what it’d be like to work with them.
- A Product Design Process for the Real World The product design playbook I use to break down and execute on design projects.
- Getting into Tech A short guide I wrote for my neighbor who's interested in getting into the tech field.
- All Design Projects Should Start in a Google Doc Most designers jump into their UI tools too quickly.
- Unusual design teams: When research manages design It’s rare for a researcher to manage a product designer. This is how it played out for us.
- My first interactive email I recently coded my first interactive email using punched card coding. I wrote about what I did and how it works.
- The Best Design Things I Read in 2019 A small collection of articles that stuck out in my mind this year.
- The business case for good design Good design is good business! Makes a nice sound bite, but how does design actually contribute to the bottom line?
- My experience as a design mentor Design is not just about pixels. It’s also about sharing, coaching, and giving back to the community from which you’ve learned so much.
- Outlook Rendering Issues: 5 Tips to Ensure Your Emails Display Properly Earlier this year, I wrote an internal guide for my co-workers explaining some of the common gotchas that make coding HTML emails for Outlook so tedious. This is a lightly edited version that that article.
- What It’s Like Working Remotely on Stack Overflow’s Design Team A lightly edited transcript of an AMA (Ask Me Anything) I did in the Remotive Slack community.
- 40 for 40 Today is my 40th birthday. Wow. 40.
- Front Utah Conference '19 My writeup from Front Utah in June 2019. I was drawn to Front's mix of user experience and product management, as well as the case study format.
- My New Home Office When I went remote in 2016, I set up my first proper home office. I’ve since moved and upgraded my workspace.
- The Best Design Things I Read in 2018 A small collection of articles that stuck out in my mind this year.
- Design Systems for Email: Bringing Order to the Chaos How we started, what we built, and what we learned building our first email design system at Stack Overflow.
- Distributed Design: How Stack Overflow builds strong remote teams The loose script from a talk I gave at Asbury Agile 2018.
- The Best Design Things I Read in 2017 A small collection of articles that stuck out in my mind this year.
- Designing a Better Email Preference Center Lessons and insights from redesigning Stack Overflow’s email preferences.
- Design Matters ’17 Notes from Design Matters conference in Copenhagen.
- Anyone Can Open Source! Lessons learned from working on a modestly successful open source project.
- Silent Leadership Thoughts on design leadership and career paths in tech.
- Why don't email clients use modern rendering engines? Email clients use rendering engines appropriate for displaying emails.
- Go Digital 2016 in Reykjavik, Iceland I attended Go Digital 2016 and visited Reykjavik, Iceland for the first time.
- How I Keep My RSI at Bay My experience with repetitive strain injury at work.
- On Joining Stack Overflow as a Designer Adapting to the Stack Overflow culture.
- Design in a Sea of Engineering How I get by as the sole designer working in an engineering led company.
- An Open Letter to Designers of Unsolicited Redesigns and Unbuildable Apps Keep doing what you’re doing.
- The Best Design Things I Read in 2015 A small collection of articles that stuck out in my mind this year.
- Cerberus Hybrid Email Templates I released a third version of Cerberus, including a hybrid template.
- The Email Design Conference 2015 Notes on my experience attending Litmus's Email Design Conference 2015.
- 36 for 36 Thirty six things for thirty six years.
- Why You Should Care About Email Design An open letter to designers and developers who’d rather not work on email.
- Designing for Medical How my team works and my experience in designing for medical.
- The Email Design Conference 2014 Notes on my experience attending Litmus's Email Design Conference in Boston.
- Notes from My JerseyScript Talk on Responsive Email Notes on my talk about responsive email from jerseyscript.
- The Hardest Part of Being Creative is Getting Used To It If you have the creative urge, it isn’t going to go away.
- Cerberus: Simple Patterns for Responsive Email I made a few simple, but solid patterns for responsive HTML emails.
- Feedback, Fidelity, and Edge Cases Giving feedback at the appropriate stage of design.
- Think Different: Designed with Windows I'm a designer and spend most of my time on Windows.
- 34 for 34 Thirty four things I’ve learned in thirty four years.
- Hiring and the Black Box There are some diamonds in the rough out there.
- My Performance Review No review is complete without citing areas to improve.
- Design as a Resource When design is not considered at the start of a project.
- I work for free or at my full rate When I take on freelance projects, I work for free or at my full rate.
- Musings of an In House Designer The first blog post in the new site.