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“Signposting” to create safe and fruitful conversations

Signposting helps our reports feel safe and in control while helping managers keep their own emotional distance.

6 min readJun 21, 2022

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“Signposting” to create safe and fruitful conversations

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Ludwig Wendzich
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WE BUILD VEND

Balancing inclusive design with security

Inclusive design doesn’t need to come at the cost of security. When you consider all mountains, your solution will be better on all counts.

4 min readJan 17, 2022

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Balancing inclusive design with security

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Ludwig Wendzich
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WE BUILD VEND

Reviewing Design Work

Over the last few years I’ve been thinking a lot about reviewing design work. Here’s why:

6 min readMay 25, 2021

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Reviewing Design Work

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Are you our new Growth Design Manager?

I’m looking for a designer with great leadership skills, who has experience in both Marketing and Product Design, to manage a new team!

5 min readDec 7, 2020

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Are you our new Growth Design Manager?

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Aligning Interests Between Design and Engineering

How small changes in the way design teams setup their toolsets lead to alignment, or misalignment, with their engineering partners over…

3 min readMay 23, 2019

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Aligning Interests Between Design and Engineering

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The “Economics” of Product

Product companies always want to do more. And then some more. And are ultimately frustrated when they can’t get to do everything they want…

9 min readFeb 24, 2019

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The “Economics” of Product

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Ludwig Wendzich
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WE BUILD VEND

Why I’m proud of my tech company.

Recently a company called “Bodega” has hit the headlines. Their aim was to use technology (fancy vending machines) to destroy bodegas and…

3 min readSep 18, 2017

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Why I’m proud of my tech company.

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Why you should never truncate in UI

I make very hard-line rules with my design team and expect them to have a very good argument for breaking them—and then we probably…

3 min readSep 12, 2017

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Why you should never truncate in UI

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WE BUILD VEND

Promoting a Culture of Design

Last time I wrote here, I introduced two big things and explained how in 2017, as a Product Design Team, we were tackling the second big…

6 min readAug 7, 2017

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A Growth Plan for Designers

My name is Ludwig and I started at Vend almost 18 months ago. I stepped into a new role called “Director of UX”. The first thing I did was…

8 min readJul 21, 2017

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A Growth Plan for Designers

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Ludwig Wendzich

Ludwig Wendzich

Senior Director of Product Design (Retail) at Lightspeed. Previously: Senior Front-end Developer in Marketing at Apple in California.

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