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The Baymard Institute: A glorious, evidence-based trove of UX best practices

What’s so great about Baymard and why aren’t there more organizations on the same level?

8 min readApr 19, 2020

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A few advanced tips for UX/Product Design behavioral interviews at tech companies

I’ve been on both sides of many UX and Product design interviews over ~10 years and in the process I’ve gotten plenty of offers and…

10 min readFeb 2, 2023

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A few advanced tips for UX/Product Design behavioral interviews at tech companies

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Figma continues to skyrocket — 63% reported it was their primary UI tool

A look the shifting design tools landscape according to the UX Tools survey

6 min readDec 12, 2021

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Figma continues to skyrocket — 63% reported it was their primary UI tool

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The rise and fall of Invision

The sad slide of the once-darling design co.

9 min readMar 8, 2023

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Why designers should be embedded into product teams and what that even means

Operating “like an internal agency” is rarely the ideal

9 min readDec 6, 2020

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How having the wrong level of zoom can distort design feedback

The way you see art-boards doesn’t necessarily match reality

4 min readAug 17, 2020

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Why Visual Design Skills are a Must-Have for Good UX

Why aesthetic craft is a vital skill for UX designers looking to produce the best possible work

6 min readApr 5, 2020

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Beware SAFe (the Scaled Agile Framework for Enterprise), an Unholy Incarnation of Darkness

SAFe offers a way to “scale up” agile, but at what cost?

14 min readJan 1, 2020

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Don’t Blame Agile for All Sins

Agile’s not inherently bad; it’s gotten muddled with other frameworks that might simply not work for you

8 min readNov 10, 2019

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Michelangelo’s painting of god separating light from darkness.

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Wireframes are becoming less relevant — and that’s a good thing

Many of the reasons for using these somewhat dated deliverables don’t hold up on closer inspection

6 min readFeb 24, 2019

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Sean Dexter

Sean Dexter

Sr Product Designer @ Meta. Prev: HubSpot & Cigna. I write about UX, agile, & product. Not speaking for any employer/s. linkedin.com/in/seandexter1/

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