Design Critique, Without the Sting

Title card: Design Critique, Without the Sting

If the words design critique alone are enough to make someone on your team tense up, the critique culture at that company has probably already drifted into something closer to a personal attack. A simple “I don’t think this works” can land as an assessment of the person, not the screen. Go too far the … 더 읽기

How to Interview Users Without Leading the Witness

Title card: How to Interview Users Without Leading the Witness

Right after a user interview wraps, there’s a strange confidence that every hypothesis going in was correct. Read the transcript back, though, and it often turns out the questions themselves were doing the leading. “You’d say this feature is convenient, right?” isn’t a window into what the user actually thinks — it’s a tool for … 더 읽기

Design Thinking Without the Workshop

Title card: Design Thinking Without the Workshop

Most people meet design thinking for the first time inside a workshop: a room papered with sticky notes, a facilitator keeping time, a day that runs from breakfast to happy hour. The trouble starts the following Monday. The sticky notes survive only as photos in a shared drive, and by the next sprint meeting nobody … 더 읽기