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These questions try to stay away from directly asking candidates to recite specifications, or rattle off screen reader hot keys. Those can easily be looked up on the job.

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I’ve been writing on Medium for three and a half years. In that time, I’ve written somewhere north of 100,000 words, in more than 50 long-form essays, read by many tens of thousands of people.

There are two things that are always in short supply on any project; time and money. The Pareto Principle can, in the long-term, help you save both. It can also help you make intelligent decisions based on your user research.

I teach two courses at Northwestern University. I want to share a little bit more about the work that I am doing there as I think it’s relevant for people working at companies who are starting to adopt continuous discovery practices (in other words, many of you).

14 min read Mobile, Web Design Share on Twitter or LinkedIn Earn Your Master’s Degree Online As attention spans shorten and visitors just want to get to the good stuff on a website, designers have to get more creative in how they communicate their website’s “story.

When it comes to delegating, invite your team into both the thinking and the doing. Do you consider yourself “a doer”? That person who enjoys doing the work, fine-tuning the details, meddling in the weeds of how it’ll all work? Then you probably have trouble delegating as a leader.

When testing new apps or Web sites, we can trace many usability problems to the system behavior’s not matching the user’s mental model.

Digital-product teams often overestimate the technical abilities and information-seeking skills of their users. In 2016, the OECD found that only one third of adults could successfully complete medium-complexity tasks.

When building a mobile app, there comes a time when you have to decide whether to use solid or outline icons. Which style is better for user experience?

Usability testing with a small number of participants is an incredibly efficient way to improve an interface. By observing real people attempt to use a design, we see the interface from the users’ perspective.

Assumed Audience — People interested in the open Web as a platform. Ten years ago, we needed Google Chrome to break the Web free from corporate hegemony, and we managed to do so for a brief period. Today, its dominance is stifling the very platform it once saved from the clutches of Microsoft.

My story of discovering, first-hand, how important psychological safety is to teams pinning their innovation hopes on frameworks like design thinking. The author, Brené Brown, was reciting a thought she always imparts to the leadership teams she coaches at the very start of their engagements.

When given the choice between an accessible bathroom or a non-accessible one, many people would pick the accessible one: there’s more space, it’s more comfortable, it’s a no-brainer. Digital products are the same.

Please note: This article is ready, and will go live when it hits its publish time. As a child of the ’90s, one of my favorite movie quotes is from : “there are as many ways to live as there are people in this world, and each one deserves a closer look.