Design OKRs for UX Design Design is subjective. Quantifying it and trying to measure it is an uphill battle from the start. Quite often you find a few metrics to track, but they don't really capture the whole
scalingsmall Why spreadsheets are bad for OKRs You might be obfuscating risks if you're tracking OKRs by replacing values in a cell. Being green does not always mean being on track.
Design June Design Update It's been a while since we've had a design update. To be totally honest, last month was a bit light in terms of NEW feature releases. However, while there hasn't been a lot
scalingsmall Objectives vs. Key Results vs. Projects There's a simple way to explain the difference between outcomes and activities in OKRs.
scalingsmall 5 mistakes to avoid with OKRs It can take a few quarters to get OKRs right. Here are some practical tips that many had to learn the hard way.
Design Building Better Brands: Brand Assets Basics As a start up, what are the basic things you need to help your brand look good and consistent? How do you do it on a bootstrapped budget? There are a few assets
Design Building Better Brands: Branding for start-ups Last week, I laid out a few ideas around building a successful and impactful modern brand – the key point being that your brand should be flexible, scalable, honest and unique to your company
Brand Building Better Brands: Brand is Culture Not Image Going back to what I said last week (Brand as a Living Thing), Brand is more than just a logo and some colors – a brand is everything we make, everything we do, everything
scalingsmall Managing OKRs in a crisis How can you adjust your plan when the world economy hits the breaks overnight?
Building Better Brands: Empower Creativity It's springtime in Portland right now, so we have been busy propagating and repotting all our indoor plants; placing them in bigger pots as they start to outgrow their old ones. The pot
Design Building Better Brands: Brand as a Living Thing We often think about brand as a still image. A logo, a typeface, a color scheme. The portfolio culture we live in makes it seem this way. The hottest designers on your Instagram
Design Building Better Brands Over the past 8 years, I've worked as a brand designer for several different tech companies, on different levels of involvement. I've worked with teams like Color Genomics, Cloudflare as an outside consultant
Design Finding the right words Today we worked on a new feature but the challenges were more about what to call it than the functionality.
scalingsmall How to build a Pragmalith There's a heated debate about microservices vs. monoliths and I'm here to introduce my answer:
remoteteams Working and quarantining Working from home is not new to me. I've been basically working from home for about 6 years now. This is, however, the first time I've been stuck at home for work and
remoteteams How we work as a fully remote team We recently wrote about how remote habits are good for colocated teams too. We're living in a really strange time and we feel extremely fortunate that adapting to our current environment has been
scalingsmall 5 low-hanging fruits to make your team more outcome-driven Stop asking your team to be customer-driven. Instead you should be blending outcome-driven practices as part of your weekly rituals.
whatsnew Zooming in and out on your business We shipped some significant changes to allow you to navigate your goals and projects at different altitudes.
Announcing changes to our pricing — switching to fixed packages instead of per-user pricing We are changing our pricing on March 23rd, 2020 to help customers give their whole team access to Tability.
whatsnew The new Tability is here! 🎉 Tability gets a brand new user experience to make tracking progress on goals and OKRs easier.
scalingsmall Remote habits are also good for colocated teams Every company would benefit from working like a remote team, even if people are sitting next to each other.
whatsnew Tability gets personal — with private pages and lock permissions We're introducing new page permissions to manage your personal goals and 1:1s — as well as locking your plans when they're ready.
scalingsmall How to measure progress for long term outcomes How can you stay confident about future outcomes if your project takes 6 months to ship? (A: use success proxies)
futureofwork A team first approach OKR tools optimize for leadership, and forgot about the rest of the organization needs. Managers love you, but users hate the tool. This needs to change. We are focused on making your team happy first.
start up Why company values are important, even for a start up Fundraising, interacting with investors, pitching your product are all parts of a startup that no one who's starting a startup wants to do. We're designers, developers, product people; we want to focus on
