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IC or Manager, laid off twice, prototyping with AI

Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers. “You are Jean-Claude Van Damme. You’re straddling two 18-wheelers careening through space while doing the splits. It’s very difficult, your groin hurts, and you could really use a strawberry Pop-tart… Here’s the question that has brought on all the pain and Pop-tart cravings: “Do I continue […]

Hey Daddy, did you lose your job?

Getting fired often comes abruptly and unexpectedly. The feeling can be even more difficult for those working in creative fields like design, as work seems to be not just an occupation, but part of our identity. Losing your job is hard, but it’s not the end of the world. It might even be a new […]

The root causes for the dev-design mismatch

Designers use an unconstrained canvas tool to design for rule-based interactive systems, hoping the devs will perfect everything in production. This causes misalignment between designers and devs. There are two persistent issues that keep plaguing the product design and development worlds. The first one is very much on the surface, and thus — no surprise — gets both a lot […]

Alt Text: Don’t Just Describe Images

Summary:  Write alt text that communicates an image’s purpose without repeating page content. Focus on meaning rather than visual description. Alt text (or alternative text) is metadata intended to help screen-reader users understand what an image is depicting. Most guidance for writing alt text describes how to make individual web-based images accessible and understandable for […]

What Is User Experience (and What Is It Not)?

Summary:  “User experience” describes both users’ relationships with products and a growing professional industry of practitioners aiming to improve those relationships. The term “user experience” (UX) can be difficult to explain to colleagues and friends. This article is meant to provide an approachable definition of user experience, explain the ever growing professional field of UX, […]