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Learn thinky things

Folks seem to like my latest bit of advice for aspiring designers: Learn Thinky Things. I coined this advice…

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Published September 17, 2022
Tagged Adobe, creativity, design, design tooling, Figma, productivity, tools, ux design, UX writing, YGEFSK

It’s all made up, and that’s okay

Is content strategy … real? Product strategy? UX strategy? Customer experience? What about content design? Information architecture? Experience architecture?…

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Published March 21, 2022
Tagged content design, design, product design

Two product culture weaknesses that can kill your experience

A long hallway full of doors.

When the overall quality of a digital experience feels low, but I can’t quite put my finger on it,…

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Published March 8, 2022
Tagged design, product, UX

Conceptual debt is killing your design process

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Conceptual debt accrues when we take shortcuts in developing the foundational concepts behind our products.

Published August 27, 2020
Tagged design, product design, productivity, UX, workflows

What is UX Writing?

UX writing is less “writing, but apps” and more “design, but words”. What I mean by that is that…

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Published July 8, 2020
Tagged design, UX, UX writing

Should UX Writers use Lorem Ipsum?

Using placeholer text like Lorem Ipsum can help you visualize and consider what impression the form your content will have on your reader. It’s a pencil sketch before laying down ink, a hummed melody before writing the score.

Published January 18, 2020
Tagged design, How to Get the Writing Done, writing, writing workflows

Weaponized

A bit jarring to see one of the tools of my trade — customer journey maps — pop up…

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Published January 11, 2020
Tagged Boeing, capitalism, customer journey maps, design, UX

Sometimes the box is more fun

One of the first times I presented on ecosystem mapping, an attendee shared an image of their own map…

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Published January 3, 2020
Tagged content ecosystems, creativity, design, diagramming, ecosystem maps, Jon Kolko, UX

A smaller toolkit

The more you know, the less you carry. Mors Kochanski, wilderness survival expert. Writing and sketching. Card-sorting. Diagrams. Interviews.…

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Published November 2, 2019
Tagged consulting, design, survivalism, tools, UX

A Year of Writing for Designers

My first book, Writing for Designers, was released by A Book Apart one year ago today. Personally, much of…

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Published October 16, 2019
Tagged content strategy, design, UX, UX writing, writing for designers

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