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Rick Rubin is a legendary creative and music producer; check out the overlap between his creativity principles and the principles of UX.

Hosted by Therese Fessenden, the NN/g podcast is both: an interview series with NN/g employees and an educational series covering foundational UX concepts.

"Great companies respond with thoughtfulness and creativity, driven by a compulsion to turn unrealized potential into results"

“OKRs surface your primary goals. They channel efforts and coordination. They link diverse operations, lending purpose and unity to the entire organization.”

Cal Newport’s coined formula for ‘deep work’ caught my attention one day: it’s a simple concept but one that is only increasing in relevance in the digital age.

“People will forgive shortcomings, follow your lead, and sing your praises if you reward them with positive emotion."

“Within the realm of designing solutions, mental models provide a nexus for all the other tools in your toolbox.” - Indi Young

“Once you start getting answers, you’ll keep asking more questions. And that skeptical mindset is more valuable than any specific methodology."

Both qualitative and quantitative data are needed to make informed user-centered design decisions; due to my limited experience with the latter, I opted to learn from Jeff Sauro.

“Above all, recognize that if you have had success, you have also had luck—and with luck comes obligation. You owe a debt to the unlucky.”

Simply put: “A team of one challenges the mighty forces of the status quo, inertia, and other people’s ways of doing things”

“You’re not simply coming up with labels for buttons and navigation—you’re changing how your users think.”

“Being compliant does not mean that you are accessible”

“The most successful designers in our industry today have a deep understanding of how design affects business and its value within the organization.”

“Of all the interviewing lessons I have learned over my career, one of the most impactful has been the importance of being open and vulnerable.”

“With the rise of design-led organizations, the role of the designer has shifted from that of mere stylist to that of a business’s number-one problem solver.”

Recommended by Sarah Gibbons, VP @ NN/g, this book outlines some of the core problems faced by teams, particularly in the tech world.

Successful designers focus on their users and their business. UX Strategy, simply put, is the intersection of the two.

A highly iterative post: designers joke that their portfolios are never quite done and I'm no exception; this is dedicated to documenting iterations I make to my portfolio over time.

Hosted by Erin May and JH Forster, this podcast series covers all things research from the perspective of employees of User Interviews.

Hosted by Anfisa Bogomolova and Ioana Teleanu - this podcast explores all things UX: freelancing, justifying UX, interview prep, constrains, mental health, etc.

To be a great designer, storytelling is one of the most important skills to have - it was also one of my weaker skills when first delving into design.

Design is about humans. In order to better understand/empathize with human behavior, I decided to re-read my college Psychology textbook by David Myers