Designy

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I help UX Product Designers transform their products, teams, and companies from the inside out by designing on purpose. 🌉 bridged from https://www.designy.com/ on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/

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Time to Get Designy

You face challenges as a product designer every day, so it’s time to take a step back and get a fresh mindset.

2d ago·1 min read·55 words

The Invisible AI Feature

The “AI helps me design screens faster buzz” is distracting from the real challenge of designing AI features invisibly.

May 25·1 min read·52 words

More Than Taste

How are your design tastebuds? We’ll discuss what it is, and why you need to be concerned with far more than taste.

May 18·18 min read·3582 words

Designy Digest / 005

Design process and genAI, a missed design leadership opportunity, and how to use the design power of time

May 15·4 min read·696 words

Not Good Enough

You’re facing internal and external pressure to be “good enough” as a designer. I discuss three way to break through it.

May 11·1 min read·24 words

The Design Power of Time

There are times you must fast-forward the design process, but it always adds risk to your results. Here are three ways to use time to design well.

May 4·1 min read·32 words

Tool vs. Process with Guest Charles Forman

Guest designer Charles Forman and I kick the tires on a few AI product design tools to see how they help, hinder, or hide critical parts of the design process.

Apr 27·1 min read·37 words

Spoiler Alert: Design Wins

Has design disappeared? Will you simply be the “human-in-the-loop” designer reviewing AI’s work? Nope, I’ve got good news.

Apr 20·1 min read·22 words

What is Your Why?

As designers, we need to define purpose in order to make strong design decisions, but what drives you to be a designer?

Apr 13·1 min read·26 words

Think. Act. Feel.

What drives your decision making: do you start with thinking or feeling? Each approach has different results but one is the product designer’s super power.

Apr 6·1 min read·28 words

What does it mean UX is transforming into AX?

User Experience (UX) designers will need to become Agentic Experience (AX) designers, but it that the inevitable reality?

Mar 31·1 min read·27 words

Staying Aligned with Andreea Lotak

My guest Andreea Lotak and I talk about aligning designs with stakeholders, do you have it, do you know when you’ve lost it, and how do you get it back?

Mar 30·1 min read·35 words

The one thing that stops designers dead in their tracks

It’s not the lack of inspiration (that’s true). It’s not imposter syndrome (that happens). It’s something we forget to ask for.

Mar 23·1 min read·31 words

Never a Wrong Design

Today we’re talking about those times your design was totally wrong in a stakeholder design review, what went wrong and how to prevent it from happening again.

Mar 23·1 min read·31 words

10 character traits of an effective design leader

When you’re a leading design, you're in the spotlight by default. Cultivate these traits whether you’re a current or aspiring design leader.

Mar 16·1 min read·30 words

Leading by Design

Good, solid leadership is in short supply, but you can step up and be one of those leaders. Here are three of my top-ten character traits of an effective design leader.

Mar 16·1 min read·34 words

Essential Skills Beyond the Tools

Product design tools are changing every week, but today we’re talking about the top 5 product design skills you need that go beyond the tools you use.

Mar 9·1 min read·32 words

Designy Digest / 004

The product design AI headlines keep amping up the skill fear, you already have what you need to succeed, and don’t stop learning to hone those design instincts.

Mar 8·1 min read·32 words

Designy Digest / 003

The buzz on product design genAI demos is wide but not deep, I offer my own demo, GTPZero has an in-page LinkedIn detector, and a new course from Designy Academy.

Mar 2·1 min read·34 words

When Design Decisions Matter

Today we’re talking about the thinking that drives design decisions. What happens when you turn your design decisions over to AI?

Mar 2·1 min read·25 words

Designy Digest / 002

There's a tool for easily detecting AI generated content, the old design process is no longer valuable, and you really should never say you’re sorry (in design).

Feb 23·1 min read·31 words

Design is Dead Final, Final

Design is dead (again) and AI does all the heavy thinking for you—is that true? Yet, there is a fundamental framework that applies to any design process regardless the tool.

Feb 23·1 min read·35 words

When AI Reviews Design

There’s a world of AI generated design support out there, but what happens when you use them to review your design, and are there any alternatives?

Feb 16·1 min read·30 words

Designy Digest / 001

Why isn’t Ai creating order in our software, should product designers adopt Ai design tools, and are you replacing Ai help for strategy?

Feb 13·1 min read·27 words

Making Messy Design Clear

Not all stakeholders understand the value of design because it seems messy. Designers want a step by step process. Both are extremes, but the Designy Framework is a clear approach.

Feb 9·1 min read·34 words

Design for Value

In this podcast we explore how it’s not enough to just design well, and ask: Are you making design decisions which generate value?

Feb 2·1 min read·26 words

Grow Your Influence as a Designer

What kind of influence do you have as a Product Designer? It’s more than you might expect.

Jan 26·1 min read·23 words

My Why

I’ve built my whole career around refining a purpose-driven approach for design leaders. That’s no accident.

Aug 4·1 min read·18 words

When you use
 GenAI for coding, you’re now a 
Code Director.

With GenAI in the production seat, you have to take a step back from hands-on and start directing vision.

Jul 10·1 min read·30 words