Digital Skills

When design teams get rid of writers, nobody wins

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Products get worse. Users get stuck. Layoffs are happening everywhere. Talented people with decades of experience are being caught up in “restructurings.” In the process, many digital product design teams are parting ways with the people who focus on words. With every layoff, we’re losing something essential. Writing is core to the design process. Every design team … Weiterlesen

A farewell to Flash

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Adobe Animate, Flash, was like an old friend. We didn’t keep in touch. A Farewell to Flash. Macromedia Flash, now Adobe Animate was my first introduction to both design for the web and web development. It was the first program I learned inside and out — after Adobe Photoshop. Knowing Flash (as I prefer to call it) was my … Weiterlesen

The justification tax

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Why design decisions take 5x longer to approve — and what to do about it Image generated with Midjourney Every design decision carries a surcharge. When your engineering counterpart walks into a meeting and says “we need to refactor the authentication module,” the room nods. It’s technical. It sounds expensive to ignore. Nobody asks for a prototype. When … Weiterlesen