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Restoring a Homebrew Setup

Yesterday I bought the new Mac mini M4. This thing is so cute, and since I traded in my old Mac it was a bargain! I’m setting it up now and I decided to do a clean installation, but to save some time I’m using this tip to restore an...

I had been working on this project (a new ERP for construction companies) for about a year when I had to stop and address some issues with Figma’s project and file organization. The team had been scaling up in a significant way and our (pretty anarchic) initial approach wasn’t working...

That WordPress drama

Back in the day, almost in a different lifetime, I built websites for small businesses in my little agency in Spain. And we used WordPress, not because it was my favorite CMS (I liked TextPattern better) but because of the huge plugin ecosystem. With time, WordPress basically became Internet infrastructure,...

UX Vision Before UX Process

Jared suggests stakeholders need a compelling UX vision, a ‘why’, in order to adopt a UX process. All I can say is that, from my humble experience, “it is complicated”.

A few months ago I got a message on LinkedIn. It wasn’t the classic “I applied to a job in your company, please recommend me”, this was a TV producer from Spain asking if I’d be interested in being on a travel TV show. In this show, the host travels...

Tri-Track Agile

Interesting article on how to overcome some of the limitations of the Dual-Track Agile methodology. As a reminder, this is just us, designers, trying to make a developers methodology work for us.

AI Prompts for UX Designers

If you are struggling with how to use ChatGPT for UX Design, the Interaction Design Foundation put together a list of useful prompts for generating ideas, user research, improving designs, and more.

AI Tools for UX Designers

I read somewhere that AI won’t replace designers, but designers who use AI (as a tool) will replace the ones who don’t use it. This field is evolving so quickly and sometimes it’s hard to stay up to date. In this article, Mads Soegaard lists eight of the most useful...

Dual-Track Agile Design

My coworker Kathy Davis explains how they use Dual-Track Agile Design at SketchUp. My team is in the process of adopting this methodology too, and Kathy’s article covers all the basics you need in order to get started.

The 100 Best Books of the 21st Century

So many books and so little time. But a few of these are going to be added to my ‘pending’ list.