An Interview with Adobe’s Senior Director of Experience Design, Josh Ulm. — After writing about Sketch a number of months ago, I reached out to Adobe with the hope that I could talk to someone there about design tools. …

I come to Facebook to share all kinds of things with people I care about — from celebratory posts about practicing yoga for 60 days straight, to mourning the loss of a parent. Those same people who connect with me on my stories also have their own stories to share…

Reflecting on one year after Teehan+Lax, and one year at Facebook — When I set out to write this article, I figured it would be pretty simple. I’d write about my transition to Facebook — you know, all the things I missed about my old life, love about my new one, etc. …

These days, we have relationships with our team members that are interdependent, maybe more than ever. As you might expect from a data focused company like Facebook, we use a number of instruments and methods to collect feedback and data from employees to understand what they want, what they do…

An interview with founder, Pieter Omvlee — I was at an Adobe event the other day when someone asked me what my thoughts were on Comet. It got me thinking about what Comet may mean for Sketch. Sketch and Photoshop have been the tools of choice for product designers, and most designers I speak to today have…

I used to be involved in award shows quite a bit, both as an entrant and as a jury member. This April I’m going to be sitting as a jury foreman at the D&ADs. It got me thinking: What’s changed over the past couple of decades that will influence what…

A before and after look at how I (so far) changed my life. — It’s interesting, my relationship with pixels. I realize I had both slowly and quickly parsed my own self into many, many discrete pixels. But unlike work, where I do it in a mindful, creative, deliberate way, I obfuscated my coherent, authentic self. The person on the left was photographed on…

If you’ve ever toured the Facebook Campus, you would have noticed posters plastered in groups on many of the walls. They serve to instill the values and culture that have been established there over the years. Their design is simple and bold, as are the messages they display: “Fail harder”…

Before you continue reading this, open your calendar and look at it. If you work at a big tech company, there’s an especially good chance it’s a bloody mess. It likely contains small windows of time between meetings. It probably has lots of meetings in the morning. …