UX

The Product Design team here at BuzzFeed has spent the last couple years polishing up our tools and revamping processes — and it’s been rad. But our improvements in some areas have illuminated other rough…

The word “process” appears 44 times in our roles doc — our reference for evaluating designers — and only increases its prevalence as a designer grows in seniority. So, why is having a unified process important? And, what does BuzzFeed’s design process look like…

As Emily noted in her post introducing Solid, the team building our framework was a mix of designers and front-end developers. Prior to that, we had unintentionally built silos around the two disciplines. While we’re definitely proud of the end result, this new way of working came with some…