Archive - Why Design Is Hard, the book (2024)

Design leadership is broken? (response to Reddit)

My answers to challenging opinions from Reddit

Nov 14 •

Real world advice from Elena Cross

An interview with a fresh, wise voice on making things happen for designers

Nov 12 •

A vision for happier designers

Here's a better way to think about the present and future

Nov 5 •

Advice summary: top 5 lessons from the book

With almost 2000 subscribers it's a good time to recap

Nov 4 •

October 2024

Why Designers Fail: The Research

Data on where designers struggle the most at work

Oct 29 •

How to escape pixel pushing

Tactics for getting more influence and escaping pixel traps

Oct 24 •

How to get really good feedback

You can redesign critiques to make them healthier

Oct 22 •

A personal story on designers vs deciders

A pivotal moment in my UX career and lessons learned

Oct 16 •

Poll: where are you at?

Let me know what to write about now

Oct 9 •

Interview with the Informed Life Podcast

audio and transcript of first interview with Jorge Arango.

Oct 7 •

Video from today's Live Q&A

Core ideas from the book + answers to questions

Oct 1 •

September 2024

Book reviews so far: one week update

A quick update on what readers think

Sep 30 •

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