Craig Johnson, senior product designer, gives us a behind the scenes look at how the UX team planned an exciting two-day online meetup. He offers tips, advice, and insight on how your team can have fun and reconnect — all while avoiding Zoom fatigue. Gathering is critical for our UX…

So your Objective Key Results (OKRs) are prepped, validated by stakeholders, approved, and ready to go. Now what? Craig Johnson, senior product designer, shares the brainstorming framework his mission team, Partner Tech, uses to create, plan, and prioritize ideas that work towards their quarterly goals. If you’ve already written out…

So you’ve done all the prep work, validated with various stakeholders, and got the green light — your quarterly OKRs are ready to go 💪… …now what? In this post, we’ll outline a simple workshop structure for generating initial ideas for newly written OKRs. Objectives and key results (OKR) is…

6 practical things you can do today to limit workplace distractions, and take back control of your focus & productivity. — Below are a couple of things that have helped me combat the flurry of incoming distractions each day, so I can keep on top of the important stuff. Contents: Slack notifications Calendar ownership Time-sink tabs Keep a clean desk Hide the dock User manuals 1. Slack notifications

Back before Spotify knew my own tastes better than I do, I would aggregate any of my new found musical discoveries into weekly (or thereabouts) playlists with about 10 songs or about an hour worth of music 🤘 I always tried to construct the playlists in a way that blended…

Being calm, self-aware and ‘in the moment’ is easier to think about as a concept, in my experience, than it is to achieve. Regular breaks, reading physical books and leaving digital devices out of the bedroom are all effective ways of disconnecting from the digital space and reconnecting with ourselves…

tl:dr — if you want to put pineapple on your pizza, you should. I’m not a huge fan of pineapple on pizza, mainly because it can squirt streams of molten pineapple juice into your mouth, can make everything a little too wet (which in turn affects base crispness and slice…

In a lot of teams I work with, when we’re working on a project, discussing the different aspects of the interface and working through all the interactions and behaviours together, we often undergo a process I like to call micro testing. What is micro testing? Micro testing is the practice of asking questions about…

It’s Friday, and all I can think about is 🍕 pizzzzzzzzaaaaaaaaaa 🍕. Down the Spitalfields Market end of Brick Lane, almost opposite the Bricklane Mosque, is an understated Italian restaurant, just waiting to roll out, I tell no lie, some of the best pizza I’ve had in East London to…