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Debating with Federico

I invited Federico Francioni from Facebook to a live discussion around the future of technology and the role design will play in building digital products that will make out lives easier and our work more efficient....

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LinkedIn Live with Sam Harper

We defined design roles in the tech industry and argued that product designers should be responsible for the validation of both intended and unintended outcomes. We discussed how digital products created more meaningful experiences, and how they could also exploit our vulnerabilities....

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Unethical Design Patterns

The Way of Product Design podcast has a mission: to help product designers generate massive value for their clients, their companies and themselves. We talk about the philosophy of user- centered design and we make predictions of the end of free trials. ...

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UX Rocks: Product Mindset

UX Meetup is an event created by Design Sprint Romania and powered by UX Rocks. I shared my thoughts on how to succeed in the digital economy by changing the way your organisation thinks....

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UX City Podcast

My good friend Paul Axente just started a podcast series, and I was his first guest! We had a brief conversation about ethics in design. It was so exciting to talk about our everyday work! Stay tuned for more episodes, we're planning to meet again...

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Other speaking engagements

Passing on your skills, supporting good causes, or mentoring a promising talent. Everyone has their own way of giving back. Here’s how I found mine: For most professionals, giving back to the community means sharing anything related to design that peers might find of value....

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Fast & smart design for startups

As long as you avoid transforming it into a linear process, design can be a powerful tool in the course of building a product or a feature. Innovation is not a singular event, it’s an iterative human-centered process, so we will always need the rationality...

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Building a company on invalid assumptions

The user experience strategy should not have a set of features at its core. It should have something else: the reason why people use the product. If we look at Google Maps for example, a standalone product, its core user experience is to easily get...

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How to stand a better chance of success

When we start building products, we are not so sure about how they are going to be used. We can only hope that they will work the way we want them to, but most importantly, we strive to have a product that will do the...

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Getting creative with creativity

I decided to write an article about Parallel Thinking. It is a story about how I changed my creative process in order to achieve better solutions to the problems I was facing at work. The team that I was working with had a very democratic...

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