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…

A young girl in a TikTok video, perhaps fifteen or sixteen, sits on her bed in a schoolgirl outfit inspired by Japanese high schools. “What do you want me to say?” She says coyly, voice artificially pitched up. “Good morning? Hello?” The video cuts to the similarly aged girl who…

The interview process for UX designers terrifies most juniors and even midlevel designers. And why shouldn’t it? Every company that hires UX designers seems to have a different process based on their company’s UX maturity, but one test that stands above the rest is the whiteboard challenge. Long feared and…

Writing on Medium, like any other social media, can be something of a mixed bag, especially when it comes to payment. When I was first invited to the Medium Partner Program, I looked online for some estimates on payment and they all varied wildly, so to that end I’m here…

In an ideal world, UX designers would be drafted out of colleges and bootcamps like NFL players. Commentators would offer portfolio criticisms on live TV as the annual UX Combine went on, showcasing incoming rookies cranking out pixel perfect designs under the watchful eyes and whistles of design coaches. Scouts…

Last fall, I was getting coffee with a friend of mine while she complained about her job. She’d been working as a UX designer for a little over a year and the company was just not a good fit: management was all over the place, the product launch was being…

Imagine sitting down with someone and asking what they do for a living. “I work in the government,” they say. When you ask for clarification, they look at you with mild irritation. “I already told you, I’m a government worker.” “But what do you do?” Today, UX design seems to…

Struggling to figure out what to use to 10X your productivity? Here’s a shopping list. — It’s easy to imagine yourself as a successful startup founder. Haven’t we all done it? Imagined ourselves as the next Mark Zuckerberg or Jeff Bezos, sitting on a stage somewhere in a hoodie or tuxedo talking about how you recently got acquired for a half a billion dollars. Everyone wants…