While they may not replace high-level product requirement documents in all organizations, they can be used to break those requirements into bite-sized pieces that are easier to digest, understand, and build against. | Read Article

Understanding your audience is essential to building great products. The first question for any project is "who are we designing for?" | Read Article

I’ve also learned over time about how to get more effective feedback. The key is that humans are very predictable in our unpredictableness. If you watch for certain patterns, you can greatly increase your ability to discover insights that would normally be hidden. | Read Article

Many of my friends either manage or mentor teams of designers. Their main complaint about new designers? They’re unprepared for the real world of interaction design. | Read Article

Doing this right means putting pieces in place to make sure you can change culture and keep your job. Doing it wrong can get you fired or kill a company. | Read Article

Here's how you can become a better designer in less than an hour a day. You don’t have to do this everyday, but the more you do it, the more you’ll learn. | Read Article

Unicorn designers exist, but they’re expensive, overworked, and generally can’t cover all the bases as well as advertised. The better ones have over 10 years of experience and the consulting rate to show it. | Read Article

Aimed at the same market and a great companion to Eric Reis’ Lean Startup, the publication is a very concise overview of what user experience is and how you can apply it in just about any startup environment. | Read Article

Frameworks speed up front-end development if teams figure out out the right workflow. These tools are invaluable to speeding up development, and illustrate concepts to developers. | Read Article