Summary of color schemes, color for screens, color in accessibility, and meaning of color

A brief summary of product design systems

A guide on how to manage employee performance for new product design managers — or those facing performance management situations for the first time...

How do we measure design quality? This question has been asked at every company where I’ve led design, and it comes not only from designers but from stakeholders and executives as well. Solutions...

We’ve all gotten career advice. Work hard, don’t settle. Ask for what you want. Don’t sweat the small stuff. Asking for help isn’t a sign of...

Self-awareness will help you hire and nurture a design team that’s curious, flexible, and authentic

My friend asked me today how I write. She’s thought about it herself, picks up the rhetorical pen, but can’t go through with it. She asked me to write about writing. The short of it is, you just write. It’s really that...

True empathy is hearing and understanding in order to implement solutions to meet the actual user needs, not just our interpretation of...

When someone says, “I want to be more autonomous,” what does that mean? Autonomy is independence, freedom, self-government. In the context of design, autonomy can be perceived to mean: “I want to do...

You’ve graduated from design school, you’ve landed your first job, you’ve made it! Congrats! You’re a real live, practicing, money-making...

How I Get My Priorities Straight — It’s that time of year again, the time when we start throwing together resolutions, albeit some more well thought through than others. …

“How do I get better at visual design?” This question comes up a lot. I coach and mentor a lot of students on product design by tutoring for the Academy of Art in San Francisco, reviewing for AIGA’s portfolio...

At the end of our interviews for Product Design at Facebook, we reserve a few minutes for the candidate to ask questions. ...

I’m a designer. Bona fide. I’ve spent eight years in school for Graphic Design, and I somehow made it out, alive and gainfully employed. I’m...

If you’re a Product Designer like me, you’ve probably been asked to design something “small” when you’ve got bigger things you want to attack. This thing might be an A/B test, or it might just be a small...