Tales of Design & User Experience (ToDUX) #9 ⁂ Dear readers and friends, I hope this issue find you well. In today’s newsletter, I want to focus on two things: A new article about product management. Stewart Brand’s “Access to Tools” philosophy and how I want to use it for this newsletter in the future.… Continue reading A Very Short History of Product Management & Stewart Brand’s “Access to Tools” Philosophy
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New Year, New Updates
Tales of Design & User Experience (ToDUX) #7 ⁂ Happy New Year, readers and friends! 🎆 As we begin another year, I wanted to take a moment to welcome any new subscribers who are receiving this newsletter for the first time. I'm excited to have you join our community of design and user experience enthusiasts.… Continue reading New Year, New Updates
My Ultimate List of Books You Need to Read If You Want to Truly Understand Digital Design: A Work in Progress
This list contains the books I believe everyone who wants to truly understand what digital design is all about needs to read. I've tried to roughly categorize them into more foundational topics and then somewhat along the double diamond: finding the right problem and finding the right solution. To provide a glimpse into the future, I also list some books on designing for an with (a selection of) novel types of interfaces.
Five Books to Read in These Trying Times
In this article I want to recommend five books that I believe are essentials in trying times like these: Rosling et al.'s Factfulness; Marcus Aurelius' Meditations; Epictetus' Enchiridion; Seneca's On the Shortness of Life; and Dobelli's The Art of Thinking Clearly.
How to Build and Lead User Experience (UX) Teams
This article presents 9 guidelines for building and leading UX teams. They are based on what I learned from the people who led me as well as my own experience: recruit diverse talent; set up a process (and iterate); involve other teams from the start; be fair; have regular ceremonies; pass on knowledge; have a vision; ask questions (a lot); and make UX visible.
Design, Vocation, Che Guevara ‒ All the Books I Read in 2018
All the books I read in 2018: Excellent Sheep 💎; The Design of Everyday Things 💎; The Little Book of Hygge; Spelunky; The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck; Che Guevara; How to become a UX leader; Joy, Inc.; Requiem; QualityLand; & The Road To Prosperity 💎.
More Design, More UX … And More Books
I know I was a little negligent of my blog in 2018 and 2019, and I didn't write nearly as much as I would have liked to. But I'm very determined to improve on this again. (As you might have noticed based on the last three articles I published in pretty quick succession before they… Continue reading More Design, More UX … And More Books