Setting personal development goals & expectations: A skills matrices experiment

Just as clear business goals are paramount to our teams being able to validate their own success, clear practice goals are paramount to individuals making personal development progress. Recently, when talking about the need for useful personal feedback within our practices, I decided that we needed a clearer way to…

What do you do when you work in a small design team amongst a sea of developers and you need helpful design feedback?

With only 2 designers in Product Technology - which is now a team of around 30 people in total - there isn’t a lot of opportunity for constructive criticism or peer review. It’s easy to work alone on something without putting your work out there for review and…

How far ahead is too far ahead?

UX at stuff.co.nz: We don’t always work ahead, but when we do... I’m a UX’er at stuff.co.nz, but you can’t quite see what I’ve been doing yet. I started at stuff.co.nz towards the end of a huge, 2 year…