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Tips for how to mitigate problems I've observed when bringing new people into product teams. A few example problems I’ve seen, particulary in smaller organisations: LACKING CRITICAL CONTE...

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How to define working principles for product teams and use them to drive the right experience decisions, faster, by more people. Working principles help cross-functional teams make the right p...

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Kent Beck's ‘Explore/Expand/Extract’ is a framework of sorts for helping teams navigate their way through major phases of growth and maturity. This is a cheatsheet I made for myself. I fir...

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Critical discourse is the most effective way I know of improving work and learning. It’s fundamental for anyone involved in creative disciplines. It’s also hard, but worth the practice. W...

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When I speak to someone about their new side project idea, inevitably the question is asked: how should it be branded? This conversation is usually one I have with developers and engineers, but b...

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> To invest in art and design means putting public money into areas > whose value cannot be captured on a spreadsheet Andrew Marr, Can > good design save the economy? ...

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My good pal Alex published a video today. He echoes the words of Jeffrey Zeldman in stressing that “content precedes design” — that design without reference to real content is simply sel...

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I was humbled to have been asked to speak at the fantastic New Adventures In Web Design by Colly & Greg this year, alongside a slew of people who’s work and thinking I’ve admired for some...

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Following on from getting the project proposal and contract signed off during Part I , I’ve procured the content and brand assets so now it’s onto planning and design concepts. Wait, “pro...

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Two streams of thinking I’ve found fascinating to see develop over the past year or two are “responsive ” (or “adaptive ”) web design and a “mobile first ” approach. Perhaps becaus...

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