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From the Brand, Product Design, Writing, Research, and Design Ops teams at Thumbtack

How Thumbtack Design Invested in DEI in 2020

How Thumbtack Design Invested in DEI in 2020

Over the years, our Design team’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI Committee) has sought out ways to make a positive impact on our…
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Alyssa Murray
Jan 28
How Thumbtack Built Their Research Ops Function From Scratch

How Thumbtack Built Their Research Ops Function From Scratch

The saying “Cooking is an art, baking is a science” is believed to have originated in a 1967 King Arthur Flour catalogue. And although…
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Maya Geary
Dec 16, 2020
Trusting My Voice

Trusting My Voice

How I’ve grown my career at Thumbtack
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Chi Thorsen
Nov 2, 2020
Dear UX: My tiny letters to the UX practice

Dear UX: My tiny letters to the UX practice

At the start of the pandemic, I noticed feeling a little down and wanting to take a break from screens including my phone, laptop, and…
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Rannie Teodoro
Sep 17, 2020
Meet Rannie, Head of Design.

Meet Rannie, Head of Design.

“I do great work with great people.”
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Thumbtack Design
Sep 9, 2020
Research That Scales: Scaling the Contributions of Others

Research That Scales: Scaling the Contributions of Others

Part 3 of 3: How Thumbtack’s tiny research team empowered non-researchers to do great research.
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Cordelia Hyland
Jan 22, 2020
Research That Scales: Using past research to answer today’s questions

Research That Scales: Using past research to answer today’s questions

Part 2 of 3: How Thumbtack’s tiny research team scaled past research to answer current questions.
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Erik Olesund
Jan 21, 2020
Research That Scales: Three Strategies for Small Teams to Create Lasting Impact

Research That Scales: Three Strategies for Small Teams to Create Lasting Impact

Part 1 of 3: How Thumbtack’s tiny research team scaled ourselves and our impact.
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Jordan Berry
Jan 21, 2020
How to not fail at a design critique (like I did)

How to not fail at a design critique (like I did)

Three easy tips for getting great feedback
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Cody Reppert
Jan 15, 2020
Thumbtack Product Design 2019 Highlights

Thumbtack Product Design 2019 Highlights

A story of product pivots, fire drills, controversial user feedback…and the projects we shipped along the way.
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Thumbtack Design
Dec 17, 2019
What makes a great manager?

What makes a great manager?

We distill the essence of what separates a bad manager from a good manager from a great manager.
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Theo Folinas
Aug 15, 2019
Managers — Make Your Habits Work For You

Managers — Make Your Habits Work For You

Habits and routines are extremely powerful, especially when we recognize what triggers them. If done well, they can be harnessed to…
Go to the profile of Rannie Teodoro
Rannie Teodoro
Aug 8, 2019
Building a Brand Illustration Style that (finally) Pays Homage to the Gig Economy Workforce

Building a Brand Illustration Style that (finally) Pays Homage to the Gig Economy Workforce

In the winter of 2018, when Thumbtack approached me to strategize and define their illustration style, the mission was to show the power…
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Krystal Lauk
Jul 2, 2019
Getting to Know the Thumbtack Research Team

Getting to Know the Thumbtack Research Team

Start-up life can be challenging and unpredictable. We asked members of the Experience Research team at Thumbtack, a group of folks used…
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Rannie Teodoro
Jun 25, 2019
Proposing a New Framework to Design for Growth

Proposing a New Framework to Design for Growth

It’s not uncommon for designers to be tasked with creating product experiences that directly impact a company’s ability to monetize.
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Ji-hern Baek
Jun 14, 2019
How to Become a Product Designer Without Formal Training

How to Become a Product Designer Without Formal Training

Honest and practical advice I give to those looking to get into UX or Product Design
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Allan Yu
May 21, 2019
4 Tools to Help Lead an Experiment Driven Process

4 Tools to Help Lead an Experiment Driven Process

Designers have an opportunity to help lead & drive impact through managing the experiment process.
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Theo Folinas
Mar 20, 2019
An introduction to Thumbprint

An introduction to Thumbprint

The Design System’s team at Thumbtack is proud to introduce our newly open-sourced system called Thumbprint. Consisting of design assets…
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Tom Genoni
Jan 29, 2019
5 tips for making the jump from freelance and agency design to an in-house UX team

5 tips for making the jump from freelance and agency design to an in-house UX team

Some tips I’ve collected based on my own experiences as both a designer who made the jump to in-house, as well as from a hiring manager…
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Josh Sassoon
Dec 19, 2018
A practical guide to design visioning - Part 3

A practical guide to design visioning - Part 3

Communicating vision to make an impact + case studies
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Josh Sassoon
Aug 1, 2018
How to write great interview feedback

How to write great interview feedback

Great hires start from great interview feedback
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Josh Sassoon
May 23, 2018
How we GSD at Thumbtack Design

How we GSD at Thumbtack Design

This post is about how we Get Sh*t Done (GSD) on the Thumbtack Product Design team. Over the past 2 years we’ve more than tripled the size…
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Josh Sassoon
May 9, 2018
A practical guide to design visioning - Part 2

A practical guide to design visioning - Part 2

Tools & Techniques, and making visioning a priority in your daily process
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Josh Sassoon
Apr 17, 2018
A practical guide to design visioning - Part 1

A practical guide to design visioning - Part 1

Part 1 of 3: What is visioning + why it’s important
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Josh Sassoon
Feb 22, 2018
Design for Small Businesses to Make an Impact and Grow

Design for Small Businesses to Make an Impact and Grow

For most of my career as a designer, I worked on consumer products. Designing enterprise and business products had never appealed to me…
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Prachi Pundeer
Nov 8, 2017
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