. I recently sat down with Chelsea Van Beurden, a product designer here at Snapdocs. We talked about banner ads, becoming a rockstar, and wearing many hats at a startup.

Take a peek behind the scenes to see what questions we ask, and how we evaluate the answers to find great designers at Snapdocs — Interviewing for a new job can be really rough. Often times the process is completely opaque. There are portfolio presentations, sample projects, hours-long on-site interviews, and questions designed to trip up candidates or find the fraudsters. That is, if you even hear back from your application in the first place.

Thoughts and ideas from practicing designers creating the future of technology, brought to you by Snapdocs Design — The best designers I know don’t write often. They want to (or, rather, think they should) but can never seem to find the time or a topic ‘worth’ writing or giving a talk about. These designers are humbly focused on doing good work… and they do good work. There are…

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I recently sat down with Jen Szeto and Colin Trenter of the animation studio Oddfellows to talk about the production of “The Smarter Workplace” — an animated short we produced together for Envoy. W: Hi Jen and Colin! Tell us a little about yourselves. Why did you start Oddfellows? C+J: Hi Wells! We created Oddfellows out of a desire to deliver smart, creative solutions to…

As I was transitioning to management at Envoy, I would say “Those who can’t do, teach” as a self-deprecating joke when among my former peers. Stepping up from a four-person design team at a 30-person company to become the first design manager was awkward, at the very least, so joking…

At Envoy, we’re challenging the status quo of workplace technology. We believe that great design and cutting-edge technology can solve age-old problems at work, and we challenged you to share your vision of an office of the future. Our design team reviewed all of the wonderful submissions, and we chose…

I learned to code midway through my design career, and it’s helped me in ways I never anticipated… especially with working at a startup. It’s made me more scrappy, more consistent, and it’s given me perspective to set my design team up for the future. I was fortunate to start…

I turned off notifications and deleted feed apps on my iPhone three weeks ago and feel more creative and productive than I have in years. And I think you should try it too. Apple first announced the Push Notification Service almost ten years ago. At the time, it was the…