5 factors slowing down your design team and how to fix them
Diagnosing the causes of slow design teams with low-quality output involves a comprehensive understanding of various factors that can hinder team performance.
Ed Orozco
Conversion rate is way more complex than you think
It is one the most oversimplified and harder to track metrics.
User research: Clarity before tools
Before getting into tools, get clear on the goal of your research.
How do you deal with being wrong?
No one can be right all the time.
Scientists, engineers, architects, school teachers, judges, can all be wrong. Designers are wrong a lot, too.
You'll often realize it because a colleague or a customer pointed it out.
Being wrong is difficult because your brain has to deal with
Building a Chrome extension with ChatGPT
In just a couple of hours I had a working Chrome extension published in Github.
Shottr is my new screenshot-annotation tool
The ability to quickly annotate and share screenshots is almost a hard requirement for designers, especially when working async.
Over the years I've tried a bunch of tools to do just that.
The more useful a tool is, the more excited I get about telling everyone about it.
Custom shortcuts for Google Chrome in MacOS
Chrome shortcuts I use all the time and I wish they came set by default.
What thinking holistically actually means
Hint: it's not just a word your PM likes to use to sound smart.
When your design just doesn't work
Sharing battlefield scars in the hopes that it will help other designers avoid the same mistakes.
Writing is a tool for thinking
Writing is often underestimated as a tool for thinking through problems.
Writing is not just the primary form of communication online. It's an essential instrument for clear and coherent thought.
When you write, you uncover the gaps in our logic.
Finding the right words to express our ideas