At some stage in your design career, you may find yourself at a bit of a crossroads. One path is the path of the craftsperson; a path you’re very experienced and comfortable with. Down the other path is the lure of management, and all the power and riches that entails…
We’ve all spent the last six months living on Zoom, and it’s frankly tiring. So when we started thinking about bringing Leading Design online, the last thing we wanted to do was force people to sit through a never-ending series of back-to-back talks.
The announcement is full of platitudes. “ It’s been a wonderful journey so far” the founders will explain, and “this sale marks the next exciting chapter in our history”. …
Being invited to speak at an event confers some benefits. For newer speakers, the most obvious benefit of speaking is to advance your career. Speaking at an event confers a certain amount of legitimacy and status. The fact that you’re on stage and other people are listening to you implies…
There’s a logic in the tech industry-popularised by books like The Lean Startup-which explains that the goal of any start-up is to achieve product-market fit; the perfect nirvana of a product that people want, that solves a real problem, and customers who are willing to pay.
On the one hand I think it’s a very powerful tool that can help designers cut through opinion battles, test hypotheses, and get the most effective solutions into the hands of customers quickly. …
It’s ironic that since starting Clearleft, we’ve been advising our clients not to become too reliant on agencies like our own.
We remind them that they need to develop both internal capabilities and organizational memory, so that when their agency partners leave-as they always do-they’re not left with a critical…
While Clearleft are first and foremost a design consultancy, we’re huge fans of conferences and events. We love attending them, we love speaking at them, and most of all we love producing them.
We love bringing people together from around the world to meet, socialise, share ideas, build friendships, and…
With disturbing regularity, my Twitter stream seems to explode with posts demonising commonly used, yet seemingly harmless design tools. These posts take great pains to document all the ways these tools have failed people in the past (while downplaying or ignoring situation where they may have helped). Reading one of…
Starting this June, I’m going to be running a UX focussed “Office Hours” drop-in session on the last Thursday of the month in London.
If you haven’t come across the concept of “Office Hours” before, it’s a practice that’s been popularised by venture capital firms, but has since spread to…
