Newsletter / 2023

12/7/23

What's inside: Free AI courses, design systems book, PEST, internal service design, graphic design trends, career advice and more.

12/1/23

What's inside: 4.0 designer, changing role of design, vectorizer, squaring the circle, mind-melding, surveys that work, and more.

11/24/23

What's inside: Assumption-based design, progressive step UX, question storming, pyramid principle, AI in FigJam, gulf between design and eng, and more.

11/24/23

What's inside: Assumption-based design, progressive step UX, question storming, pyramid principle, AI in FigJam, gulf between design and eng, and more.

11/17/23

What's inside: Research recruitment, figma color wheel, senior IC career advice, minimum viable pizza, strategic content design, and more.

11/10/23

What's inside: Human vulnerabilities, UX intro to AI, middle-range research, design storytelling, gradient map, rule of tincture, and more. 

11/3/23

What's inside: UX/AI thinking, table of contents, onboarding friction, collaboration survey, AR accessibility design, and more.

10/27/23

What's inside: Gaslighting designers, noteworthy rebrands, firefly model 2, working with PMs, qual vs quant, and more.

10/20/23

What's inside: Redesign playbook, proven value of UX, dust textures, learning behavior, AI prototypes, auto-generating pages, and more.

10/13/23

What's inside: Experience economy, design leadership, aesthetic-usability effect, AI + ideation, universal color, design strategy, and more.

10/6/23

What's inside: AI font pairings, continuing UX learning, design components, storytelling, storyboards, music-based breaks, and more.

9/29/23

What's inside: Problem directory, context switching cost, LLMs vs. UX, WCAG 2.2, AI in research, user-facing states, job stories, and more.

9/22/23

What's inside: Laddering why technique, AI flowcharts, universal job evaluation, tiny brief, hidden impact, outcome indicators, and more.

9/15/23

What's inside: Career building, viewports, behavioral science 101, empathy prompts, relationship mapping, AI tolerance, and more.

9/8/23

What's inside: Assessing risk, bad actors, staff designers, psychological safety, defining value, motivation matrix, and more.

9/1/23

What's inside: AI agents, emergent design process, UX+DataSci, skill matrixes, macOS collaboration, a/b test efficacy, gain/loss, and more.

8/25/23

What's inside: Inclusive experiences, redesigned double diamond, uphill thinking, Figma variables, wireframes, web font sizes, and more.

8/18/23

What's inside: Future rewards, mixed methods, chrome, prioritization methods, avoiding costly rework, and more.

8/11/23

What's inside: Top tasks, inductive research, service blueprint hacking, PM templates, UI iOS design, contrast checker, AI Figma plugins, and more.

8/4/23

What's inside: UX strategy, driver trees, atomic ux research, peak-end rule, service accessibility, and more.

7/28/23

What's inside: AI + UX, research prioritization, fresh typeface picks, UX frameworks roundup, UI component inspiration, simplify speaking, content-first design, proximity principle, and more.