How to Manage Failure in UX Design

Jazmin Harling-Gray
Greatest Possible Good
6 min readJul 15, 2020

In late April we sat down with Yao Adantor, Senior User Researcher and Designer to interview him for our series “Talk Design,” where we speak with designers to learn about their industry. During our short meeting, we chatted with Yao about best practice tips and tricks for leading a successful UX project and finding the opportunities in every failure.

Yao Adantor sitting at a desk. Photo courtesy of MICA Maryland Institute College of Art
Yao Adantor, Senior User Researcher and Designer, courtesy of MICA

Meet Yao

Jazmin Harling-Gray
Greatest Possible Good

I am a creative problem-solver, dreamer, sci-fi lover, and taco enthusiast…