What I've learned from studying interviewing principles and analyzing the meta elements of my favorite interviewers.

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Tips and strategies I've learned for shipping side projects.

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Tips and strategies to painlessly manage a personal website.

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Looking back on 2020 and setting goals for the next year.

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It's time to change the way I think about building and maintaining my personal website.

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This week, we talk about designing with grid systems. In particular: when grid systems break, and what to do when they don’t align with our hardware screens perfectly. In The Sidebar, we talk all about design debt: how to work with it, pay it down, and eventually learn to accept it.

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This week, we talk about strategies and tactical tips for elevating a team’s bar to design high quality interfaces. In The Sidebar, we talk about how to transition from web to mobile design.

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This week, we talk about the real struggle of finding the time to do North Star design. It’s complicated! In The Sidebar, we try to find the digital equivalent of a Norman Door.

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This week, we talk about “invisible design” – those products and experiences that go unnoticed when present, but would be immediately noticed if absent. In The Sidebar, we react to the new Tesla Model S refresh.

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This week, we talk about designing experiences that weave between meatspace and screens. In The Sidebar, Marshall gives a deep dive into using modifier keys to level up your Figma productivity.

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Generate a palette from an image to magically populate your designs.

I spoke with Kevin and Rafa about the Staff Design project, career ladders, imposter syndrome, and Paul Rudd.

Ryan Nystrom and I talk about designing and building the mobile apps at GitHub.

An exploration into the plugins I built to automate the tedious parts of designing mobile apps at GitHub.

Exploring the possibilities that open up when designers and developers can speak the same language.

An interview about how I got into design, my process, and past work.

Bryn Jackson and I interviewed each other. Totally humble.

An interview where we dig into my work at Buffer, Facebook, Spectrum, and what’s in the works at GitHub.

Ryan and I discuss how we designed and built the first version of GitHub’s mobile apps.

App Dissection

In-depth explorations of visual and interaction design in well-known apps.