This article is a collaboration with partner Justin Smith, Head of Product at Officevibe, and myself. For all Catan and UX fans — we hope you enjoy it. Coping with Redesign: Catan Universe How you can easily ruin a product (and your users’ lives) with a redesign that ignores core UX heuristics Living in one of the top global pandemic hotspots when the Covid-19 crisis began, I started to seek a sense of human…

An introduction to handling creative feedback with your team. — A few months ago, I had the opportunity to talk about creative feedback at Shopify’s MTL Design Club. I touched on how important it is to have design critiques in an organization to keep a quality line throughout the entire design thinking process and also to nurture a design culture…

How attending a conference was eye-opening and some takeaways. — Last week, I attended the Awwwards conference in San Francisco. It was the first conference I’ve ever attended. I’ve always been told to go to one, that it would inspire me and motivate me. I honestly thought I didn’t need the motivation since I’m someone who’s very optimistic and inspired…