Time to Kill the Take-Home Design Test

It’s happened again, another designer, another design challenge, another squandered 10…

What Does a Design Director Do Anyway?

I spend a lot of time coaching businesses in how to build and manage design teams. A…

Acing the Whiteboard Challenge

Design fast. Out loud. In front of an audience.

Day 18: Annotating Wireframes

The test of a good wireframe is how concise and detailed are the annotations.

“Culture Fit” is Code for Biased Hiring

“During the filming of Planet of the Apes in 1967, Charlton…

Color My Digital World

“People decide whether or not they like a product in 90 seconds or less. 90% of…

The Science of Color

For most of my design career I had a pretty fuzzy understanding of additive and…

Day 13: User Flow Diagrams

Now that you have a task list, let’s turn that into a flow diagram to show how the user will move through your…

Why I Hire People Whose Startups Failed

I love startups and founders of startups. I particularly love those founders of startups…

Day 29: Visual Sitemaps

Visual sitemaps reveal the organization of all the pages or screens within…