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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.
A design inspiration library is a lifelong practice; one that helps you anchor new projects, spark original ideas, and refine the taste and discernment that define great designers.
Amazon will pay $2.5 billion after the FTC said it tricked people into signing up for Prime and made cancellation difficult. The case highlights dark patterns: design choices that benefit the business but work against users on a massive scale.
Kenneth O. Stanley’s Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned challenges the obsession with goals and metrics. By focusing on curiosity, exploration, and unexpected stepping stones, he demonstrates how true breakthroughs emerge from wandering, rather than rigid planning.
Figma’s 2025 AI report shows how AI is reshaping design work, raising expectations, and making design skills more valuable. From prototyping to agentic AI, it’s clear that designers who experiment now will shape the future.
A strong point of view goes beyond branding. It’s a perspective that shapes how a product communicates, the feelings it evokes, the language it uses, and the patterns it employs. We explore Discord, Oura, Todoist, and Figma to see how POV makes products unforgettable.
As you grow in your craft, the rules that once gave you confidence can start to feel limiting. That’s when your instincts step in, helping you question old habits, trust your judgment, and create work that feels original and alive.
Practical ways to help your team connect with research, from quick synthesis activities to immersive techniques like gallery walks and research walls. Make insights something people can see, feel, and build on together.
AI-assisted coding moves at lightning speed, but good design still takes time. Here’s how teams can adapt their processes so design and engineering stay in sync without sacrificing quality or burning out.
Glassmorphism is everywhere in 2025, but Apple’s Liquid Glass takes it further with real-time lensing, motion, and accessibility built in. Here’s how this evolution is redefining depth, usability, and style across modern interfaces.
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.