Powerpoint is proof that product distribution can be just as important as product quality, maybe more so. Powerpoint is a wildly inferior product – its fucking maddening and I hate using it. It’s worst in its class. Literally every one of these presentation products is better than Powerpoint: But I still use it, regularly. I… Continue reading
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JIRA Tickets as a Checklist
Recently, as a function of rapid growth, we were encountering problems with newly released features and functionality due to missing critical considerations in the ticketing process. In other words, we would release functionality and then realize it had product impacts we didn’t foresee. Inspired by the Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande, I created a new… Continue reading
Saving your design work in an enterprise Figma world
Designers should regularly export their work from their company’s’ Figma and save it down to a non-company location in case they lose access to the platform. Recently, I’ve noticed many portfolios lacking many actual design artifacts. This issue stems from the shift to cloud-based design tools: you create work but risk losing access once you… Continue reading
The competing use cases of Enterprise UX
In Enterprise UX, your customers are often different than your users. You are effectively selling a machine, aka your product. The customers have a need for the output of this machine. They are buying a better/faster/cheaper way to get that output, but will not be using this machine themselves. The end users of the machine… Continue reading
Brexit – Creating a UI to easily re-paper thousands of legal agreements
For years, international investors sought firms in the UK as a launching point to trade assets all over Europe (and, likewise, European firms to trade in UK). Due to Brexit, that will all change on March 29th, 2019. Once Brexit is finalized, thousands of legal agreements will need to be transferred between various brokerage firms’… Continue reading
Creating and Implementing a Design System for FIA Tech
Challenge: The various products at FIA Tech were either acquired from other companies or built by either in-house and contracted teams over the years. While these developers did a masterful job weaving these complicated, data heavy applications together, the design was something of a mess, with different visual and interaction languages across the different applications. Additionally, as we added new features… Continue reading