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In the pit

Editor’s note: I wrote this in either March or April of 2019, I reckon, and recently found it languishing in…

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Published January 12, 2023
Tagged creativity, making, metaphors, music, productivity, thought technologies

Learn thinky things

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

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

Seven lessons from publishing 100 issues of a weekly UX newsletter

This excerpt originally appeared as part of Issue 100 of the UX Writing Events newsletter on September 12, 2022. Would…

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Published September 12, 2022
Tagged entrepreneurialism, marketing, newsletters, productivity, UX Writing Events

Oh, to be unreachable

I would have a healthier relationship with technology and social media — and be healthier in general — if it…

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Published August 26, 2022
Tagged collaboration, focus, productivity, Slack, social media, technology

Give him some room

When it comes to maintaining a productive, creatively fulfilling life, the simple answers are terribly alluring. I’ve swooned to the…

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Published May 16, 2022
Tagged creativity, habits, productivity

Conceptual debt is killing your design process

The Content Career Accelerator

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

The effortful way

Job one is doing the job.

Published July 28, 2020
Tagged creativity, productivity, quotes, writing

How do you estimate the time needed for doing the writing?

The project managers turns to you and asks: “How long is it going to take to write this?” Hoo boy. It’s time to proceed very, very carefully.

Published February 4, 2020
Tagged How to Get the Writing Done, productivity, UX writing, writing, writing workflows

Nothing unfamiliar (Tools I used to write a book)

My book advises designers to be intentional about the tools they choose and use to do the writing on their…

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Published February 3, 2020
Tagged productivity, writing, writing for designers, writing tools

Long paragraphs

“So often the long paragraphs I write in life are responses to Facebook posts, or reply letters to someone, or…

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Published January 18, 2020
Tagged creativity, inspiration, productivity, social media, writing

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