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
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
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
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.
A brand new Tability A Brand New Tability - Update 01 In our first update in our redesign, we're talking about mobile friendliness and how we're planning on building our product from the foundation up, with it in mind.
Design Introducing: A Brand New Tability Over the next few months, we're rolling out a new and improved Tability. We will be posting regular updates on the redesign here on our blog, so you can stay informed and add comments/feedback as we go. Stay tuned!
product teams It's not just what, it's also when Sometimes we give our users all the right answers at all the wrong time. It took us a while to realize this, but we got there.
Design Designing Tability – June Update Introducing a few new features to make goal tracking more engaging and intuitive
Design We can't not judge a book (or a tech startup) by it's cover Some reasons for investing in design early in your start up, and why it has worked for us.
Design Designing for business outcomes: Great, but is it so simple? The truth to “Designing for Business Outcomes,” is that it’s exactly what we should all be doing, but we don’t have the tools, systems, or mentality in place to make an outcome-driven culture viable in an organization. So how do we solve this?
Design Designing Tability — April update Some updates to our UI design as well as some learnings of a first time UX and interaction designer.
Brand Thoughtful design in a fast paced startup environment I officially joined the team in November as a co-founder and design lead for both brand and product. My first task was to redesign our brand identity and come up with a new name.
whatsnew What's new: compact design, filters, tags We have a lot to unpack this month! Thank you all for the feedback that you've given us as it's been super helpful to put the right things on top of the backlog.
beta Building in the open: Designing simple, intuitive project updates See what we're doing to keep project updates simple, easy and powerful. Read about the core principles guiding our designs.
Design We need to talk about experience debt Technical debt is something that is highly visible to the team, but we often have a hard time understanding the tradeoffs we make on the user experience.
Design Designing Tranquility at Work The thing about designing a brand is that it’s not so much about making something new, it’s about understanding something that exists and helping it express what it already wants to