Hiring a (product) designer? Don’t use design exercises!

They’re not inclusive, not respectful, and — worst of all — they’re not effective in helping you find and attract top talent.

The three exclamation point problem

An essay about the choices underrepresented groups make to overcome and erase societal bias.

Open Letter To Tech Companies: Please Raise Your Bar

Hiring for diversity doesn’t “lower the bar”; it raises it.

The Elements of Product Design, and the discipline vs. the job

What is Product Design, and how does…

Product Chatters: A conversation with Ksenya Samarskaya on “going grayscale”

In the first of a series of chat conversations on product design I ask Ksenya about her grayscale personal computing devices.

The Ghosts Of Twitter Past, Present and Future

For the world’s biggest soapbox, effective…

Designing Crisp Logos For Medium And Other Sites That Scale Your Files

Quick tips for working with pixel grids, high-DPI or “Retina” displays, and designing “end-result” first.

Products We Like: Subform, Figma, and a plugin to morph SVG

Every week we round up products we discovered, have been using, or simply want to highlight for being thoughtfully designed.

Disruption without consequences, and other fairy tales and unicorns

It is certainly “disruptive” when innovations solve one problem while creating another. That’s not a good thing.