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The most effective designers shape their work strategically. By generating ideas, building strong partnerships, and owning a problem space, you can amplify your impact—without waiting for permission. Learn how you can use strategy and tactical execution to drive real outcomes.
Captivating presentations rely on powerful storytelling. This article presents 30 techniques—from crafting relatable protagonists to building suspense—with examples illustrating each one. Use these strategies to connect with any audience and make your message memorable.
Designers who do excellent work are fast on their feet, embracing flexibility and adaptability as core traits. These skills help us navigate shifting priorities, collaborate effectively, and grow in our careers. Learn how to cultivate them and stay nimble as a designer.
In many companies, success isn’t just about doing good work but how you’re perceived. Using Shreyas Doshi’s framework of content, confidence, and context, this self-reflection exercise helps you assess how you’re seen and where you can grow to advance in your career.
This guide explores how to effectively document design decisions and provide context in Figma, creating transparency and improving collaboration throughout your design process. Discover how to establish a single source of truth, minimize miscommunication, and improve team alignment and efficiency.
Tesler’s law reminds us that complexity doesn’t vanish—it just shifts. Learn how to design intuitive, user-friendly products by managing complexity instead of offloading it to users.
Productivity isn’t about doing more, but rather about doing what matters in a way that supports your energy, focus, and well-being. This guide explores why modern work makes it so hard, and how to create a system that actually works for you.
Explore a gallery of 3D image styles created with GPT-4o, each paired with ready-to-use prompts or JSON. Built from a personal collection of examples, this simple app is designed to help you experiment, remix, or spark new ideas.
High-performance cultures are glorified in tech, but companies like Meta and Atlassian reveal the hidden costs. This piece examines how these systems drive results, where they fall short, and how to build teams that perform without promoting burnout and a toxic culture.
Prototypes show, while Product Requirement Documents (PRDs) tell. When used in tandem, these tools enhance understanding, expedite decision-making, and create clarity. This article explores the importance of both and provides guidance on how to ensure they remain aligned.
Being great to work with often matters more than raw talent. Follow-through, clear communication, and positive energy build trust, make collaboration easier, and turn you into someone others rely on, especially when the work gets hard.
Purpose may not be what we think it is. In a world where everything changes, how you show up is your constant. This piece explores a more resilient, values-led view of purpose, especially for designers navigating a changing landscape.
“Create like a child, edit like a scientist” is a mindset that reminds us to be playful, curious, and non-judgmental at the start of the creative process. This piece unpacks what it means and why it matters.
Great design doesn’t happen in a silo and AI is changing how we work together. This post breaks down how cross-functional teams utilize co-creation, asynchronous feedback, and rapid iteration to solve real-world problems, without compromising speed or clarity.
Creativity thrives in curiosity, not conformity. Inspired by kindergarten thinking, this article explores how play, passion, and shared exploration can help designers unlock better ideas and enjoy the process more along the way.
A great case study is like good UX; it’s clear, intentional, and designed with the reader in mind. This post explores how to apply design thinking to your case studies, with a free Figma file including 31 case study writing tips you can use while you work.
A roundup of tools, ideas, and design news worth your time, from 3D icon experiments and visual inspiration platforms to YC’s call for more design-led startups and Dyson’s latest product launch.
A truly design-led organization integrates design as a strategic function. This means embedding design into the very fabric of decision-making, rather than treating it as an add-on. However, many organizations struggle to implement this approach. Here’s why.