Or how to feel like you’re still enough when your day ends with unchecked boxes on your list — Here is something that will come as a surprise to no one who has ever met me: I’m one of those people who gets deep satisfaction from finishing a to do list. It may be a cliché but it’s true. The act of checking the last item off is a…

Some rambling reflections on moving past failure and towards vulnerability at work and beyond — Be free to fail. This is the kind of thing I hear a lot working in tech. We fetishize failure in this industry. We flaunt how much we embrace it because perhaps it once seemed so counterintuitive to do so—but nowadays it may as well be canonical. The stories we…

Why I love saying yes to scary things these days, but should start saying no to more of them, anyway — In the past few months, I’ve said a lot of scary yeses. I’ve been asked to do things I’ve been really scared to do, acknowledged I’m scared, and said yes anyway. In fact, I think I’ve become so accustomed to scary yeses that they don’t really feel all that scary…

Usually we don’t need to hear it, but if we haven’t heard from you yet, we do — “I know we’ve moved on, but can I just add one more thing?” This may be one of the more dreaded comments in a meeting, heard when we manage to finish up with a topic, and someone pipes up with one extra thought that they really believe we need to…

Part 4 of our meetup live-blog from Breaking Silos for Collaborative Research — Sad to say, but we’ve come to our last talk of the night at our Breaking Silos meetup! Catch up with what we’ve heard so far: Sarah Stockdale on Growth and Research Andréa Crofts on Research Collaboration by Design Lakhveer Jajj on Craftsmanship, Data and Empathy Our final speaker is…

Part 3 of our meetup live-blog from Breaking Silos for Collaborative Research — We’re halfway through our meetup and we’ve already learned so much from our first two talks: Sarah Stockdale on Growth and Research Andréa Crofts on Research Collaboration by Design Next up is Lakhveer Jajj, Senior Technology Director at Highline Beta, sharing how UXers can work with web developers. Meetup Preview: How developers and UX researchers can work together Highline BETA’s Senior Technology Director Lakhveer Jajj speaks about key lessons learned from working with UXRsmedium.com

Part 2 of our meetup live-blog from Breaking Silos for Collaborative Research — We’re live at the UX Research Toronto meetup on Breaking Silos for Collaborative Research, where we just heard from Sarah Stockdale on Growth and Research. Check that out here. Next up is the amazing Andréa Crofts, a research-loving Product Design Manager at League and one of the chapter leads of…

Part 1 of our meetup live-blog from Breaking Silos for Collaborative Research — Hello from tonight’s meetup at TWG! Our theme tonight is Breaking Silos, and we’re hearing from non-researchers about how they work with, well, us! I’ll be blogging from the event tonight and I’m excited to share what we learn with all of you. …

League’s Product Design Manager gives us a preview of her talk at our upcoming Breaking Silos meetup — Andréa Crofts is a UXRTO frequent flyer, having spoken at #UXRConf and now joining us again to speak at our upcoming Breaking Silos meetup (now sold out!). There’s good reason to bring Andréa back to our stage— not only is she a kickass design leader, but she’s also a huge…