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The Three Questions Junior UX Designers Can’t Answer

I recently started doing contract UX work for a company based out of Chicago. In our first conversation, the principal designer told me how happy she was to have another designer on the team. When I asked how long she’d been looking to hire, she told me five months. “Was…

Visual Design

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The Three Questions Junior UX Designers Can’t Answer
The Three Questions Junior UX Designers Can’t Answer
Visual Design

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The Three Qualities of a Senior UX Designer

Last year I was approached by a recruiter for a company who asked if I was interested in a senior UX design role at a mid-sized fintech company. When I declined, the recruiter seemed confused. “You have five years of experience as a UX designer, you’ve led design teams, and…

UX

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The Three Qualities of a Senior UX Designer
The Three Qualities of a Senior UX Designer
UX

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Bootcamp

·Apr 4

3 Questions to ask yourself if you want a job in UX

I recently had a friend that I considered a promising UX designer and researcher tell me that he was considering dropping out of their boot camp. The guy was picture-perfect for the role: background in marketing, hobbyist designer who had been designing for fun and beer money over the last…

UX

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3 Questions to ask yourself if you want a job in UX
3 Questions to ask yourself if you want a job in UX
UX

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Oct 30, 2022

Elon’s Twitter Takeover Will Kill UX

On Friday, Elon assumed control of Twitter, immediately firing most of the C suite, dozens of executives, and then swinging a reaper’s blade through the ranks of employees he could reach. Nonsensically, he demanded engineers print out the code they worked on over the last two months (before reversing course…

UX

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Elon’s Twitter Takeover Will Kill UX
Elon’s Twitter Takeover Will Kill UX
UX

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Bootcamp

·Sep 15, 2022

User Research is a Waste of Time

The 2007 post-apocalyptic horror movie I Am Legend, starring Will Smith, had a bizarre ending. Humanity has been destroyed irreparably by a virus that turns humans into strange vampire creatures that fear sunlight. Robert Neville is a researcher who spends his days alone, attempting to study these creatures and find…

UX

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User Research is a Waste of Time
User Research is a Waste of Time
UX

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Bootcamp

·Updated Aug 24, 2022

It’s okay to be okay at your job

A friend of mine had just finished her second year as the sole UX designer at a medtech startup in Seoul when she was complaining to me about her job. We were at a Harry Potter café in Hongdae drinking overpriced but amusing drinks while people strolled past the windows…

UX Design

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It’s okay to be okay at your job
It’s okay to be okay at your job
UX Design

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The Digital Sportsman

·Aug 19, 2022

How to play Moonar Overseer

Moonar Overseer is a brand new incremental game from the partnership of Fox & Farthing and Playfix.io. As an incremental game, your goal is to increase production as much as possible in order to unlock all buildings. You’re overseeing a moon city and want to mine as much regolith (moon…

Mobile Games

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How to play Moonar Overseer
How to play Moonar Overseer
Mobile Games

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Bootcamp

·Jun 15, 2022

You’re never going to get hired as a UX designer

I know you’ve seen the articles, the videos, the tweets. Six figures in six months! Your gangplank into tech, no experience required. Learn on YouTube, apply online, humblebrag at Thanksgiving dinner this year about your stock options, your company computer, your beanbag chairs and office laundromat. It’s easy, right? How…

UX Design

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You’re never going to get hired as a UX designer
You’re never going to get hired as a UX designer
UX Design

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Bootcamp

·Jun 7, 2022

5 habits to make you a better UX designer

A friend of mine is a killer artist. When he draws from life, doodles a cartoon or sketches something on a napkin, it’s absolutely remarkable how the pen strokes go from a disjointed scramble to something immediately recognizable in a few seconds. I always ask him how he got so…

UX Design

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5 habits to make you a better UX designer
5 habits to make you a better UX designer
UX Design

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Bootcamp

·Updated Jun 6, 2022

3 steps to create a design system that doesn’t suck

When I was fourteen I wanted a Macbook so bad I was practically bleeding out my eyes. Unable to get one, I decided that I would just design my own operating system to rival the multi-billion dollar behemoth of Apple Computers. Armed with a curve sled, a ruler, a compass…

UX

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3 steps to create a design system that doesn’t suck
3 steps to create a design system that doesn’t suck
UX

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Lowell Stevens

Lowell Stevens

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Designer, writer, esports fan. Founder and creative director @ Fox & Farthing

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