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Building Phosphorus to give enterprises full visibility into their xIoT environment

Role: Director, Product Design • Industry: Network / Cybersecurity

Installing Storybook for React (Part I: Designer Edition)

I'm currently exploring options for ways to maintain the Phosphorus design system, which I've been calling 'Mineral'. A team that I worked with a while back were looking at leveraging Storybook at the time but they never fully got around to implementing it. Getting

Design orgs and the centralized, consultancy model

Design leaders that structure and operate their teams as if they are a centralized, internal consultancy within an agile product organization will rarely make an impact. From my experience, this doesn't work for several reasons, one of them being that it makes it difficult to consistently build the

Simplifying the payroll data migration process with UltiPro Launch

Role: Lead product designer • Industry: HR / Payroll

Specializing Too Early In Your Design Career Can Limit You

Don't specialize early on in your design career. Start broad and learn as much as you can. Be comfortable in every stage of the product dev lifecycle - research, strategy, interaction design, visual design, etc. Learn to understand what steps are necessary for your project and what steps

Let’s talk about designing for better security

As designer’s, we put heavy emphasis on designing for experiences that bring both value and delight to our end users. We talk about things like ethical decision-making in design, accessibility and inclusion…all very important topics that need to be discussed. That said, there’s very little discussion around

Project Discovery, Team Alignment, Co-Design & Free Lunch

It goes without saying, proper planning and early team alignment helps to decrease the chances of projects going off the rails. That said, it still amazes me how little time and investment product teams actually put into having proper project kickoffs. By “proper”, I don’t mean a big groupthink

A well-rounded book list for Designers, Design Leaders & Product Managers

Here’s a list of book recommendations for people who contribute to the creation of digital products and/or services. It spans topics from user research to design to psychology and business and innovation — covering a broad spectrum that I feel can make any design practitioner, design leader or product

Redesigning Mailchimp's visual editor to simplify and increase campaign creation rates

Role: Lead product designer • Industry: Marketing / Small Business

This thing called a Minimum Viable Product (MVP)

I hear it being thrown around quite a lot these days. Do they really mean “V1”? Here are a few things you should know regarding the concept of the“Minimum Viable Product”: The Lean Startup Eric Ries wrote this book called “The Lean Startup”. The term derived from the idea

Providing whole home Wi-Fi coverage to consumers with Luma

Role: Lead Product Designer / Researcher • Industry: Technology

Designing for Consumer IoT Products

Consumers are arguably the most difficult market to design for. They may not be inherently interested in a certain technology and unlike employees or workers, they have a choice whether or not they’ll use your product or service. Designing digital products for consumers is hard, no doubt. Add a

Adding stickiness to Home Depot's mobile app browsing experience

Role: Lead Product Designer / UX Researcher • Industry: Retail

Giving consumers insight into their home network Wi-Fi coverage

Role: Lead Product Designer • Industry: Technology