I send out a survey twice a year to people in my team to ask 1) how happy they are in their role, 2) how proud they are with the work they do, and 3) to gather anonymous feedback. …

In some cases, I know it’s still important for a designer’s career advancement to be able to showcase design work in their public portfolio to highlight their skills. …

One important thing for a leader is to set clear expectations. They are only clear expectations if they are clearly understood by everyone involved. Miscommunication can cause unnecessary problems later on, but I’ve learned that there are two questions you can ask to help with clarifying expectations. …

I know I’m not the only one who creates lists. I’m sure I’m not the only one who creates to-do lists in Slack. I’ve come up with a way to create a visual to-do list in Slack that I want to share. I might be unreasonably excited about this, but hopefully someone else out there also finds this helpful. And satisfying to look at. I use three different emojis to reflect the status of each tasks. :white_square: for uncompleted task :large_yellow_square: for ongoing tasks :white_check_mark: for completed tasks

Apart from the typical ways of working guidelines and team contract bullet points, there are a couple of things that I keep as reminders for my team of ambitious and highly productive designers. Apparently it’s five things and I try my best to live by them as well: Don’t work…

Doing design work and talking about design are two different things. One is messy, while the other one should be clean. Don’t confuse the two and enjoy both. — The Double Diamond Design process describes the messy design process in a neat and structured way. It’s a visualization of the different steps of a design process emphasizing divergence and convergence of problem solving. It’s clean. It makes it easy to explain and talk about the general concepts of a…

It’s Friday and I have apparently been working from home all week. Before the pandemic I would have to plan for days when I would work from home, now it’s become the other way around; I plan for days when I will work from the office. …

Do you have an end-of-the-work-week ritual that helps you enter weekend mode? In the book “The making of a manager” Julie Zhuo describes her end-of-the-week habit. …

I’ve been hesitating too long to write my first Medium post in the same way that I hesitate to write on the first page in a blank new notebook. Whenever I get a new notebook, I trick myself by starting to write on the second page just to avoid the…