Strategies to improve how your team communicates about data — 📓Download the UX of Data worksheet Generating data is easy. Ensuring it is reliable and widely accessible is hard. Data is often not accessible unless you can write code. People in non-technical roles rely on data every day to make decisions, develop ideas or measure success. When tools and systems…

Your vote matters. It matters even more at the local level. Keisha Bottoms, the Mayor of Atlanta, won her 2017 election by 832 votes. The LA County Registrar gives a presentation about several elections that came down to less votes than that. There are so many great resources out there…

How Product Designers drive growth and what it means to hire a Growth Designer — Growth has long been a vital discipline in the tech industry. Most companies have growth leads or growth teams and acknowledge on some level that they need growth expertise in house to help, well…grow the company. Meanwhile, design has been an afterthought in the growth discussion. Growth teams often work…

Hack for LA celebrates National Day of Civic Hacking with Design Thinking — Every year, Code for America volunteer brigades around the country celebrate a day devoted to civic hacking. Teams nationwide come up with ways to give back to their communities and aim to motivate others to join the cause. …

Hello everyone, I’m using Medium’s letter writing feature to send you a note about my latest blog post. I have been whiteboarding this idea for how I think Growth Teams can be more effective. Spoiler alert —there are no growth teams, everyone’s a growth team! Read it and then send me your thoughts on Twitter @calexity https://blog.alexaroman.com/growth-on-every-team-a65fe248b09e All for growth and growth for all! - Lex

I’ve had many discussions with founders and growth leaders about how growth can be most effective within a company. After drawing this idea repeatedly on whiteboards for founders, I decided it was time to document and share it. Here’s how I envision growth as an organization wide approach. Anyone who…

California’s Primary is coming up on June 5. Unfortunately, California voter turnout for non-Presidential elections is usually less than 33%. We have a serious list of races for this primary including Governor, US Senate, State Senate and Assembly, LA County Supervisors and several LA County Judges. These people will determine…

A simple guide to using design techniques to solve issues in your community — I see everything as a design problem. Line too long at the DMV? Design problem. Not enough healthy food in your neighborhood? Design problem. Can’t afford a place to live? Design problem. If you think of everything as a design problem, then you know you can use design to solve…

This post was originally posted on the InVision blog As designers, we know our work has an impact. We see the power of design in every aspect of our lives. But not everyone is able to connect the dots between design and business growth. It is up to us, as…