After a little over 5 years, I’m going to be leaving GitLab for my next adventure. It’s not surprise to those of you who have been following me that I have absolutely loved my time there. I’m so proud of what we built—and I’m still proud and awed by the remarkable people there. GitLab’s values are the gold standard for what it means to be a wonderful company—for the team-members,…
Yet newsletters can quickly become overwhelming for users and, as a result, some will simply “unsubscribe” to avoid getting too many emails. However, our large-scale testing revealed that allowing users to specify the frequency with which they receive newsletters can meet the needs of user
Find out if you’re getting paid fairly and start your salary negotiation right. In 2019, my starting salary as a new grad UX designer living in Toronto was $76,500.
Behance and Adobe Portfolio are the two main ways that Adobe has helped creatives share their work elsewhere. While both look quite similar on paper, they have a fair number of differences that you need to keep in mind.
If design teams had a ceremonial initiation process, watching a stakeholder trash something that you’ve spent countless hours building would be it. But rejection is inescapable when we’re making multiple variants for every module of every single project, perpetually.
Ah yes, the perennial question (or argument depending on your point of view) that provides endless nourishment for the design Twitterati and design influencers. It’s a moot discussion, of course, because—surprise—logos matter, maybe now more so than ever. Now that I’m on my soapbox, I’d like to argue that case, and explain through my own creative process how a successful logo is created, from the initial sketch right through to…
Out of the 138 portfolios submitted, 125 was screened. If you’re part of the 13 that I didn’t review, it’s because you’re a UX writer, UX engineer or a UX consultancy business. I do not have the expertise to review portfolios for writers and engineers, and reviewing UX businesses is something I would not do for free (sorry).
Empowering non-researchers to collect client feedback can pave the way to better products and customer retention.
It’s natural to feel like you don’t belong or that others may know more than you do. But that’s not true. This is what’s known as imposter syndrome and it can affect anyone, regardless of their skill level or experience.
I got my first job at 25. I was fresh out of college and really glad to have landed a job at a bank that had its headquarters in my hometown. They later told me that there were more than 150 candidates lined up for it. The salary was very good for the living standards in Slovenia back at the time but I left only 18 months later. I realised…
