Current feels of a designer who hated working from home before the pandemic.
Like many of us in corporate America, we’ve been thrusted into working from home the past few months — a move that some of us office socialites dreaded. …
Conducting user interviews can be incredibly valuable but also a bit scary to start
Product designers have a lot of techniques and tools in their back pockets when it comes to researching and understanding the people (users) they design for. …
Designing digital products for people over 65 years old has some very valuable lessons.
Product designers are obsessed with the people we design for. No, I’m not talking about our internal clients (though we should be in tune with them as well), but rather we’re obsessed with the end-user of our products. For three years my world has revolved around senior citizens — working…
The total mindset makeover.
This is a multi-part series around a designers leap from being a visual designer to a product designer. You can read the first part of the series here.
In the previous part of this series I talked about the first few days (and weeks) of my career switch from being…
Listening, learning, and the fear of imposter syndrome.
This is a multi-part series around a designers leap from being a visual designer to a product designer. You can read the first part of the series here.
Before diving into the first days, you should know that by this point in the series I’ve accepted the offer for my…
Design Chat with Josh is my personal design podcast where I ramble about anything design related. This episode I share my thoughts on whether or not designers should learn to code.
The answer isn’t so cut and dry.
For some reason we’re still asking this question in 2019, but people want to know! Should designers learn to…
How many times have you heard the following?
“Ugh, another rainy day.”
“It’s too hot, I can’t wait until summer is over!”
“I can’t stand the people in this town!”
“I can’t wait to move out of this city…”
I’ve heard these and many other negative comments over the years…
Design Chat with Josh is my personal design podcast where I ramble about anything design related. This episode I share why it’s important to share a little of that knowledge we designers all foster.
Don’t be greedy.
We all have something to share as designers, and knowledge of what we do is usually top of mind for us. Why not share what we know or think about design?! This episode explores why I think more designers sharing their thoughts and experience will only help us all become better, more well-rounded creatives and problem solvers. So get out there, make yourself a little uncomfortable, and share what you know with us!
It seems as though there’s a constant battle between visual design and UX design. The struggle is simple: UX designers think usability is the most important thing, and visual designers tend to think aesthetics are the most important thing. If you ask me, I believe usability is by far the…
