Leadership

How do you work with executives who’ve been burned by UX before?

How to reduce stakeholders resistance for your UX work, deal with non-actionable feedback and prepare for successful outcome by the end of that big meeting.

Master the 80/20 Rule

A guide to adapting your leadership style to meet your team where they are.

Erin Casali, also known as “Folletto”, is a user experience director and startup advisor. She has an hybrid background in design, psychology, business, and t...

Design Operations is all about helping designers do the best work of their lives. Our job is to clear the path so designers can focus on what they do best: design. At many tech companies, you’ll find a more traditional embedded model—one Design Program Manager (DPM) per major product area. But in a lean team …

Load up your toolbox and supercharge your leadership

Book launch! + Predictions for the manager in the era of AI

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My journey as a doer-leader has ended up with this simple framework to arrange my Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday (MTWRF)…

A cheat sheet is a concise reference guide that provides quick, essential information about a particular topic or process. It’s designed to simplify complex information into easy-to-follow steps without having to sift through large amounts of content. In the context of UX process, a cheat sheet might outline the steps in the design process It

Disassembling Leadership is a series of articles that go beyond common perception of management and leadership, in order to build better companies and better teams.

If you had asked 22-year-old me what my “career aspirations” were, I would have looked at you blankly and then casually changed the subject…

AI, emotional design, weird careers, and other takeaways from Figma’s 2024 conference

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Who do you call to break you out of a 3rd world jail cell?

A series about hands-on career paths in the design industry.

Design Sprint case studies and lessons from around the world.

Notes on Products & Design

I spent years chasing perfection and didn’t grow. Then I started seeing failures as lessons and changed not only my life, but my team’s

Why great leaders shape “systems”, not personalities

How business management killed craft apprenticeship

The subtle ways people signal respect without saying it

Being in the presence of the right person can be worth more than a six-figure college education.

Leadership isn’t declared. It’s noticed.

Sneaky Coaching Questions For Those Time Sucking Moments

Looks good on LinkedIn. Feels awful in real life.

Once you understand this, then you are just a new man

Earn trust, grow leaders, and create teams that thrive without you.

Unpacking powerful lessons from poor managers — including me