Journal
Personal thoughts, experiences, and reflections from my journey.
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Posted Jan 24, 2024
Five principles for design system management
The most useful skill I've acquired when it comes to leading a design system team is product management.
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Posted Dec 6, 2023
Making decisions as a team
Dot voting has a few serious weaknesses that can cause false or misleading results.
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Posted Nov 29, 2023
Developing a scalable design token taxonomy for Prospa's Design System
How we developed our tokens to create a flexible taxonomy for a small but powerful set of semantic tokens.
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Posted Nov 23, 2023
Lessons from Don't Make Me Think
Make designs so usable that just by looking at it the average user will know what it is and how to use it.
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Posted Nov 16, 2023
The problem with dot voting
Dot voting has a few serious weaknesses that can cause false or misleading results.
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Posted Nov 9, 2023
Writing for designers
Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That’s why it’s so hard.
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Posted Nov 2, 2023
It all means nothing in the end (a talk by Amy Hupe)
A set of recommendations aimed at enhancing the sense of purpose in one's work
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Posted Oct 25, 2023
Sailboat Retro
Give the team the forum to reflect and share what went well and, often more importantly, what didn't.
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Posted Oct 20, 2023
Economics 101 for designers
The lack of business literacy is hurting designers.
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Posted Oct 19, 2023
Goals for the 40th time around the sun
What better accountability buddy than the entire internet?
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Posted Oct 3, 2023
So Good They Can't Ignore You
Passion comes after you put in the hard work to become excellent at something valuable, not before. In other words, what you do for a living is much less important than how you do it.
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Posted Aug 19, 2021
Why Australia's crosswalk buttons are the best
Next time you impatiently press a pedestrian crossing button again and again, spare a thought for its ingenious design.
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Posted Aug 17, 2021
The three-or-four-hours rule for getting creative work done
We push ourselves beyond the sane limits of daily activity when doing less would have been more productive in the long run.
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Posted May 10, 2021
Remote working tips
A few remote working tips from twenty experts with 100+ years experience working remotely.
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Posted Apr 25, 2021
Thinking in Bets
Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts
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Posted Mar 31, 2021
2021 Redesign: Work in progress
Another year, another redesign of Brody.com to give me the chance to iterate upon the design, improve my front-end skillz and try out a shiny new tool or two.
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Posted Mar 21, 2021
The Gap by Ira Glass
For anybody who is in doubt about his/her creative career.
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Posted Jan 26, 2021
2021 Redesign: Objectives
Another year, another redesign of Brody.com to give me the chance to iterate upon the design, improve my front-end skillz and try out a shiny new tool or two.
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Posted Apr 13, 2020
Remote: No Office Required
In thirty years' time people are going to look back and wonder why offices ever existed.
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Posted Nov 1, 2019
October 2019 stats
The end of the year has snuck up on me, so it's time to measure and focus on my goals.
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Posted Aug 5, 2019
Uber Design: 77 Things
A design-forward, aesthetic exploration of some core principles of design.
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Posted Apr 5, 2019
Meeting warm up games
Heading to a meeting, I've started running short games to help break the ice and get the creative juices flowing.
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Posted Oct 14, 2018
Full Stack Anxiety
I'm a designer, so I should probably learn responsive patterns, methods for remote user testing, Sketch, motion graphics, Framer, keep up to date with current design trends, and a million other things.
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Posted Sep 1, 2018
Procrastination: It's pretty much all in the mind
To procrastinate or not, the answer may be down to differences in how our brains are wired, a study suggests.
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Posted Aug 27, 2018
Learning How To Learn
Powerful mental tools to help you master tough subjects.
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Posted Jul 31, 2018
Read the warning signs
You can tell a lot about your initial experience with a company.
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Posted Apr 21, 2018
Elon Musk's 6 productivity rules
Tesla employees were sent a memo, pledging a big push towards productivity as it gets production of its Model 3 car back on track.
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Posted May 25, 2017
How 72andSunny practices optimism
Optimism isn't a luxury, it's a tool and a powerful weapon you can wield to shape things as you want them to be.
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Posted May 9, 2017
Cloudbees design principles
Our design principles define the design direction going forward and helps convey our core beliefs to stakeholders.
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Posted May 3, 2017
The $300 million button
Sometimes all you need is a little text change to save your business a lot of money.
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Posted May 1, 2017
A month off alcohol
I can already hear the jeers from friends, but having abstained for 4 week blocks in the past, I know there are plenty benefits to taking a break from the hard stuff.
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Posted Nov 15, 2016
Reinventing Organizations
The book that has inspired organizations to take a radical leap and adopt a whole different set of management principles and practices.
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Posted Jul 17, 2016
Trello stickers
Jazz up your Trello board with these Sticker Sets