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Esther Williams said, “wisdom is a useless gift unless you share it” and I couldn’t agree more.

I like to share what I have discovered about creating amazing user experiences, embracing creativity, and sustaining a successful freelancing career.

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Books
User Experiences that Matter (2016)
Mastering Freelance (2017)
Getting started in UX
What's a 'User Experience' Anyways?
How Do You Learn UX?
Working as a UX Designer
Grow within UX
Working as a UX Lead
Defining a UX Strategy
Writing as Part of the UX Process
Most popular
AI Ethics - A New Skill for UX-Designers
Designer Ethics & The Moral Implications of our Apps
The Future of the UX-Designer

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Weekly notes May 11 - 17
What you do ≠ what you are
Weekly notes May 4 - 10
Weekly notes April 27 - May 3
Design better, not more
Weekly notes April 20-26
Weekly notes April 13-19
Scoping & Running Projects
Weekly notes April 6-12
Scoping & Running Projects
Weekly notes March 30 - April 5
Why wireframes are becoming obsolete
Weekly notes March 23-29
Emotions and work - know yourself
All books are now free
Answering your question - How I design
Understanding team culture
UX: What happens when the user wants out?
Redesign to learn
Year in review: 2019
Who’s listening?
Why Designers Need To Speak Business
Choosing simple over complex
Finding Your Professional Path
Learning UX From The Real World
UX of Email Newsletters
Measuring UX with HEART
UX can’t be defined by one set of "rules"
5 Years - 300+ Posts!
Give them candy: small details make all the difference
Advertising: contextual vs. behavioral and why it matters
Let’s assemble like the Avengers and... do work
I’ve redesigned my website and it looks exactly the same
Whose problem are you solving?
Running my own company for ten years
Creating a UX Strategy
Working as a UX-lead
Working as a UX designer
What’s the meaning of work?
What is worth waiting for?
Voice assistants - are they really the future?
Writing as part of the UX process
Prescribed Technological Therapy: Is this our future?
2018 in review
What’s my location?
Seth Godin: A lesson in good content creation
How Playing Games Helped Me Succeed at Business
I’m taking a break
Stay humble, stay eager
What about ’my’ responsibilities?
Serving your customer, valuing yourself
Voice Input’s Effect on Social Norms
Back to Work!
Five questions UX employers should be asking
Tech Sector Values are Broken?
Confirmation Bias in Design
The Tools I Use to Run My Business
Designer Ethics & The Moral Implications of our Apps
AI Ethics - A New Skill for UX-Designers
How do you learn UX?
Vanity Metrics
Design Systems: Better UX through Defined Standards
What’s a ‘User Experience’ Anyways?
New Tools Don’t Always Equal Productivity
Voice Input is the Next Big Thing - Or is It?
A better user experience...or?
Reflections on working on an iPad
How to succeed at freelancing
The Future of Retail
2017 review
Measure your worth, know your motivations
The secret formula for great user experiences
Enjoyable UX vs. Usable UX
What do you do?
Calling bullshit on ‘Apple is really bad at design’
UX-writer: A New term, a Big Need
Stop Saying E-mail is Broken
Carpe Diem UX-designers
What´s Good Design?
Chasing Growth
Are Your Customers Flowers or Plants?
A Redesign
The One Ingredient All Great User Experiences Share
True fans or just followers?
Now that Apple is talking about AR and VR, should we be too?
Think like an artist to create better designs
Investing in businesses and products
Become a better UX-designer with these three words
The future of the UX-Designer
Why Designers Need to Write
Understanding Great User Experiences
The Possibilities of Automated Personalized Content
Is Less More?
Designing for Accessibility
Why Simple is Hard
Becoming a Better Designer
Without Struggle, There Isn’t Success
Email Marketing: High Returns, Low Investment
Apple is User Hostile… Or is it?
Pricing It Perfectly
Habits: Small Actions can have Big Results
From Idea to Market: Launching a Product
What do Conversions Mean to You?
5Things Football can Teach Us About Building Products
Trusting Your Gut
What are Bots and Why are They Important?
Change is Quick, Results Take Time
Making Promises Your Clients Will Feel
Designing with Emotions in Mind
UX Design as a Problem Solver
The Life of a Freelancer Shouldn’t be a Lonely One
The Secret Feature that Everyone Knows About
No One Really Knows What They Want Anyway
Built to last
Be the Butcher not the Supermarket
The Interactive Car Dashboard
Simplicity – Be Your Own MVP
Why User Experiences Matter
An Eye on the Future
The Fundamentals of Good UX
The Extra Effort for Great UX
Everyone is a UX-designer and Why I Hate the Term
Growing Relationships by Understanding Values
UX is Much More than Software
Hey Siri, what’s the future of user interfaces?
Understanding Pain Dream Fix
I am Professional Because I am Personal
Working with UX-designers and getting results!
What is the cost of sharing?
Freelancer for Life: 5 Reasons Why This Works
Understanding UI Design
UX Design explained

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