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Published in Indeed Design

·Sep 30, 2021

4 Lessons from Leading a Vision Project for Indeed Hiring Platform

How accelerating interviewing in a time of dire need taught one team to stay flexible and transparent. — It was September 2020. The COVID-19 pandemic’s second wave had taken a terrible toll. Job losses were starting to slow, but the damage to communities and businesses was widespread and deep. Despite cases leveling off, the expected devastating third wave that would arrive with winter was at the door.

Product Development

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4 Lessons from Leading a Vision Project for Indeed Hiring Platform
4 Lessons from Leading a Vision Project for Indeed Hiring Platform

Published in Building Creative Market

·Mar 22, 2018

Assembling a Central System to Bridge Products

Framing the Problem Last spring, the team decided to start building Creative Market Pro — a curated design asset subscription built to help creative professionals and teams do great design work fast. This decision meant that we could potentially have customers accessing two products using the same account. So, we had to create…

Design

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Assembling a Central System to Bridge Products
Assembling a Central System to Bridge Products

Published in Building Creative Market

·Feb 26, 2018

Redesigning Even Better File Organization (Part II)

Back in 2015, I wrote about how we designed and implemented a system for naming and organizing our files in our company’s Dropbox account. It worked well for the last 2 ½ years. However, our approach started to break because we underwent some big changes in the middle of last…

Dropbox

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Redesigning Even Better File Organization (Part II)
Redesigning Even Better File Organization (Part II)

Published in Building Creative Market

·Sep 27, 2017

3 Things I Learned from Starting a Design Newsletter

One of the most difficult things about being a designer is trying to keep on top of the rapid changes in our industry. Tools, process, skills, team structure, and more are evolving at an ever-increasing pace. It’s difficult to know where to look and how much time to spend keeping…

Email Newsletters

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3 Things I Learned from Starting a Design Newsletter
3 Things I Learned from Starting a Design Newsletter

Published in Building Creative Market

·Aug 29, 2017

Creating a Culture of Effective Design Feedback

Crouching Feedback, Hidden Disaster Feedback is the wild card in your team’s design cycles. Get it wrong and projects are at risk of being delayed, producing ineffective outcomes, or even worse — blowing up or shutting down. On the other hand, effective design feedback can save the day and bond the team together. Creating…

Design

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Creating a Culture of Effective Design Feedback
Creating a Culture of Effective Design Feedback

Published in Building Creative Market

·Apr 5, 2017

Shaping Our Design Principles

I’ve been working on Creative Market for 5 years now. Where did the time go? I thought it was finally time for us to shape our design principles and design team’s mission and vision. Surely after this much time we should have these strategic pieces in place, right? I decided…

Design

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Shaping Our Design Principles
Shaping Our Design Principles

Published in Building Creative Market

·Feb 15, 2017

Revamping Our Onboarding Process for Product Designers

As a design manager, I spend a good chunk of time finding and recruiting new talent to join our design team. …

Hiring

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Revamping Our Onboarding Process for Product Designers
Revamping Our Onboarding Process for Product Designers

Published in Building Creative Market

·Feb 3, 2017

How To Write Your Own UX Plan

Last month, I wrote about how our team started raising the bar of our user experience design efforts over the last two years. From those efforts, we identified and shaped a new UX design deliverable that’s become core to our process—the UX Plan. This week, our lead senior product designer…

UX

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How To Write Your Own UX Plan
How To Write Your Own UX Plan

Published in Building Creative Market

·Jan 6, 2017

Raising Our User Experience Design Bar

Since shipping the MVP over four years ago, the Creative Market team has been building new features and iterating on existing ones. We started off as a small, scrappy team that built product with tremendous speed. …

UX

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Raising Our User Experience Design Bar
Raising Our User Experience Design Bar

Published in Building Creative Market

·Oct 30, 2015

Easy Shortcuts into Making Digital Design Resources

Early in my design career, I hoarded design tools and assets by the truckload. Before I was competent enough to make beautiful bézier curves in Illustrator, I would tap this personal archive of resources for what I needed. I’d edit these paid and free assets for the project at hand…

Design

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Easy Shortcuts into Making Digital Design Resources
Easy Shortcuts into Making Digital Design Resources
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