design systems Design Systems as a Shared Product Language A good design system is about making sure you're building a language that creates shared understanding for product teams. How do we get there?
design systems Making Design Tokens Work Across Platforms with Amazon Style Dictionary How to unify the design system for a complex multi-platform application using design tokens and Amazon Style Dictionary.
OKR Minimum Viable Design Process: My current approach to design projects Since when I can remember, there's always been a lot of discussion about the design process in the design community: Should we do wireframes? Are detailed UI designs a waste of time? Is
leadership Lessons in Leadership Lessons in leadership I learned by managing people and observing bosses, leaders, mentors, managers and clients over the last decade.
leadership Meaningful Metrics: A Guide In the world where you can measure absolutely everything, how do you make sure you're measuring the right things?
design systems How Small Teams Benefit from Having a Design System Why lean startups and small teams can benefit from building a design system from the very beginning.
design systems Component-based User Interface for Rails-based Web Apps It's the definition of the Don't Repeat Yourself principle for me — you design and implement a component once and then you can reuse it multiple times.
design systems The Atomic Design System of Microservice Diagrams Can you use design systems thinking to approach creating large scale infrastructure diagrams? Sure!
Productivity How to Achieve Anything: My Method of Setting and Achieving Goals Disclaimer: I am absolutely aware of amount of privilege that allows me to take breaks during the day or even go to bed whenever I wish. If you can follow my little guide,
thoughts Why I Stopped Buying eBooks And Turned to Printed Books Instead Update June 2018: Since writing this blog post, I went back to buying eBooks for the convenience, but I still can't stand the page turn blink of my Kindle. Are there any non-annoying
Productivity Personal OKRs: Your New Year Resolutions Are Now Numbers Recently I talked with a friend about new year’s goals and resolutions and how it’s often hard to keep them and we ended up discussing how we set and manage goals
motivation Why Do You Work? Why do you work? Did you ever ask yourself this question? What makes you wake up in the morning, dress up and go to work? What would make you excited to wake up
Productivity It's Okay to Take It Easy Personal story about productivity, burnout and why I stopped enjoying the cult of success When you’re in tech, you most likely already noticed we all live in the world of 30 Under
thoughts The Mission Statement That's Helping Me Get Through the Trough of Sorrow A little introduction: This whole post started as a very personal note in my Evernote, but talking to one of my favorite baristas about why we are where we are in my lives
Why I keep a “Done” list For a while now, outside my default to-do list, I’ve been keeping a “Done” list. At the end of the day, I sit down and reflect on my day, writing a summary
Design Tools of the Trade: Apps I Can't Imagine Work Without For a while, I've been receiving emails with questions about tools I use for daily work. I wrote a bit on the topic in my older post about how my design process works,
leadership Mindless Hustle Will Kill Your Startup It is slightly worrying that I keep seeing The Startup Hustle™ articles making the rounds again, reminding the founders that if you don’t give up everything that life’s worth living for,
Working Culture Full-Stack Dystopia: What the Future of Work Should Not Be A while ago, Chris Messina has posted the “Full stack employee” piece on Medium. A full-stack employee is supposed to be someone who can do everything but is especially knowledgeable in one of
Design Rubber Duck Design As some of you know, I’ve been working with software developers for the longest time. No, literally. I always was more interested in designing than coding, but it never stopped me from
Design Teams Empowering Your Team With Nielsen's Usability Heuristics In the design world, Nielsen’s usability heuristics is the checklist of “Ten Commandments” that you can check off to make sure your design is good at a very base level. As someone
Design Working Smarter: Improving My Process for New Projects My only resolution for this year is simplifying my life and focusing on happiness. Because work is taking a huge chunk of my time every day, I took a look at my recent
UX Being Useful: A Short Story About Proactive User Experience Recently, I have been noticing a big shift within a couple of big companies that I worked with in cooperation with MING Labs, a design studio here in Berlin. All of them are
Startups The Obsession With Coding Recently I read a post in Fast Company about what they call “The Full-stack Marketer”, arguing that after we made all designers learn to code, we need to turn our entire marketing team
