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(How) Do You Invest In Your Life & Personal Growth?
(How) Do You Invest In Your Life & Personal Growth?
Documenting the process of designing a “skill coaching” app.
Faruk Ateş
Aug 5, 2019
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Hiring a (product) designer? Don’t use design exercises!
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.
Faruk Ateş
Nov 14, 2017
Open Letter To Tech Companies: Please Raise Your Bar
Open Letter To Tech Companies: Please Raise Your Bar
Hiring for diversity doesn’t “lower the bar”; it raises it.
Faruk Ateş
Nov 9, 2017
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The Elements of Product Design, and the discipline vs. the job
The Elements of Product Design, and the discipline vs. the job
What is Product Design, and how does “doing” product design differ from “being” a Product Designer? And is the distinction actually useful?
Faruk Ateş
Jun 21, 2017
Down with the down-vote
Down with the down-vote
Replacing granular ratings systems with a simpler thumbs up/down approach is solving the wrong design problem.
Faruk Ateş
Mar 20, 2017
Product Chatters: A conversation with Ksenya Samarskaya on “going grayscale”
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.
Faruk Ateş
Jan 4, 2017
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Two weeks in Product Matters: Dogma, Ghost trains, 143 Tweets and Fighting Fascism
Two weeks in Product Matters: Dogma, Ghost trains, 143 Tweets and Fighting Fascism
This double-up entry covers important product design news for the two weeks ending December 2.
Faruk Ateş
Dec 6, 2016
Disruption without consequences, and other fairy tales and unicorns
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.
Faruk Ateş
Dec 3, 2016
Mark Zuckerberg’s arbiters of truth
Mark Zuckerberg’s arbiters of truth
The Facebook founder and CEO continues a hands-off trend, deferring responsibility for the platform’s impacts in our lives.
Faruk Ateş
Nov 28, 2016
Two Weeks in Product Matters: Teams, Election Thoughts, and Milton Glaser
Two Weeks in Product Matters: Teams, Election Thoughts, and Milton Glaser
Every week we round up products and articles that have piqued our interest.
Faruk Ateş
Nov 21, 2016
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