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Max Dunne

Using research techniques to improve a Design System: 1 year on

A year on from creating baselines for Design System efficiency

Jun 26

Using research techniques to improve a Design System: 1 year on

Jun 26

Rosie Dent Spargo

Creating Values and Principles: A Guide for Product Design Teams

Every great Product Design team needs a set of both Values and Principles to guide their designs and their decisions. This guide will…

Jun 21

Creating Values and Principles: A Guide for Product Design Teams

Jun 21

Max Dunne

Creating a human-centered, design-led business strategy

Uplifting design to bring product, design, engineering and many more departments together.

Mar 16

Creating a human-centered, design-led business strategy

Mar 16

Jenna Edgar

Spilling the Beans: My First Month

How’d I end up here? Career pivots are exciting and scary, with a bold emphasis on the scary. And what better time to shake up my…

Feb 21

Spilling the beans, my first month at Pion

Feb 21

Max Dunne

How we turned our design vision into an effective strategy

…and why we’re going to do it all over again in 2024.

Nov 13, 2023

A quote from Wener Herzog

Nov 13, 2023

Rosie Dent Spargo

The Designer’s guide to Roadmap planning

Picture this: You’re a product designer in a busy squad, working hard on the user problems you’ve prioritised this quarter. You’re focussed…

Nov 1, 2023

The Designer’s guide to Roadmap planning

Nov 1, 2023

Max Dunne

The Importance of Feedback

How we’ve improved our design standards with better feedback loops

Oct 18, 2023

‘Creative people are distinguished by the fact that they can live with anxiety, even though a high price may be paid in terms of insecurity, sensitivity and defencelessness for having the “Divine madness”.’ Rollo May, The Courage to Create

Oct 18, 2023

Max Dunne

Using research techniques to improve your Design System

How to quantify design system improvements by creating reliable baselines

Jun 19, 2023

Figma

Jun 19, 2023

Robin Lloyd

How ChatGPT Will Kill Stack Overflow And Make You A Better Developer

It’s no secret that Stack Overflow is the go-to resource for many developers when it comes to answering coding questions and solving…

Dec 16, 2022

How ChatGPT Will Kill Stack Overflow And Make You A Better Developer

Dec 16, 2022

Chris Wood

How We Reduced Our GitLab CI Pipeline Duration by 70% at Student Beans

One of the first initiatives of the new DevEx team was improving the GitLab CI pipelines, here are a few of the things we changed…

Nov 23, 2022

How We Reduced Our GitLab CI Pipeline Duration by 70% at Student Beans

Nov 23, 2022

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Principal Product Designer (UX) @Studentbeans — cweston.co.uk

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