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Things I’ve learned that not only make self-reviews easier to write, but have also led directly to raises and promotions.

Impact > volume of work

Map impact to levels

Bring reviewers along for the ride

Work journaling

Make manager advocacy easy

Follow through

The A11Y Project is a community-driven effort to make digital accessibility easier.

This essay is about sharing the insights and learnings I derived from my experiences at a large organisation, that can help you be more effective if you’re in a similar situation.

Building identity through ownership

Hawking information

Managing your manager

Expectations & evaluation

Creating strategic megaphones

Choosing flow over formatting

Managing your time

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How video has helped my design process.

A look at the meetings, rituals, and exercises our product design team relies on to stay connected and efficient.

We've opened up the music box and described how we've shaped the tool to suit our needs and culture at Spotify.

In late April I was asked to participate in a question and answer session for Brooksource, a national staffing agency whom I have worked…

Getting it wrong is part of how you do your job. It’s part of the process.

Culture is everything. Creativity needs the right culture to flourish.

“But I just kept churning them out because I loved the process more than I loved the traffic.”

It’s just business.

Looking back at findings from a series of eyetracking studies over 13 years, we see that fundamental scanning behaviors remain constant, even as designs change.

“...even though designs have shifted over the past two decades, online reading behaviors have remained, at their core, fundamentally similar. Technology changes quickly, but humans don’t.”

Lessons learned building a simpler, more organized experience for our users

Co-designing with customers in the field to get qualitative feedback for iterations.

#product release

We have all doubted ourselves and our decisions at some point in our careers. This activity will help guide you through your confidence-building journey.

Two of the best ways to build confidence are: A. Gathering more data or B. Building more experience. Chances are you’ll have to do both, a lot, over and over again, to achieve full confidence.

Bethany Heck, previously Head of Design at Medium, documented what she has accomplished during her time at Medium.

Artificial intelligence and machine learning are changing the ways we conduct business, interact with each other, and understand the world around us.

An introduction to AR and VR design. “Be open-minded to experience, but also be attentive to it... Take note of the good, the bad, and the confusing so that when you’re asked to design for the experience, you’re already aware of some of the potential pitfalls and major wins.”

Curious about product design at Dropbox? Here’s a look at tools we use for solving problems, making decisions, and communicating ideas.

Applying principles and mental models to design problem solving.

I identify as a Growth Designer. A few years back, I wrote about how I see growth design . Here’s how I defined it: A person who approaches product design through the dual lens of customer experience and business impact. “Growth Designer” is not usually my actual job title, but I find that l

by Keith Hamilton | Sep 09, 2019 | 2D design patterns can inform the user experience of augmented reality apps, but these patterns don't account users who exists within the design itself. By defining these regions of interaction, we’re able to design more immersive experiences.

Design for local, proximate, and remote content

There's a growing demand for designers to make their interfaces accessible to all users. It's important to accommodate users with disabilities...

100+ page report about China's rapidly evolving tech industy.

China Internet Report 2019

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