Insights
Thoughts and ideas on strategy, design, technology, and beyond
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Strategy
Dear Optimistic Leaders: Make Paranoid Plans
Great plans account for when things don’t go according to plan.
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Design
Make Your Design System Easy to Use
Tips for being a more considerate collaborator.
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Engineering
Asking Questions: The Art of Owning Your Okayness
How to turn your fear into questions that get you answers.
Strategy
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Strategy
How to Write a Compelling Product Vision
A step-by-step guide to winning over even the most uptight investors.
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Strategy
How to Turn Anxiety Into Great Performances at Work
Lessons learned from a career spent onstage.
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Strategy
How to Think Like a Startup When You Work at a Big Company
Tips for cultivating an entrepreneurial mindset.
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Strategy
The Chorus of Complainers
Modern software never stops asking for things. It needs to stop.
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Product
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Product
How to Product Manage for APIs
On building products you can’t see for users you can’t talk to.
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Product
Inclusive Mobile App Design at the MTA
On designing for blind and low-vision users riding the rails.
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Product
On the MTA: Seeing Your Work in Action
Postlight New Yorkers reflect on the Brooklyn subway crisis.
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Engineering
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Engineering
“What Do You Think of Our Platform?”
How to generate a holistic evaluation of a large, entrenched platform.
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Engineering
Learning to Code: It’s About Practice, Not Talent
Curious about coding? Go for it — and let these 7 insights be your guide.
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Engineering
How Postlight Levels Up Engineers
What it looks like to hone your craft at an agency.
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Design
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Design
Designers Chat Part 1: What Makes a Great Design System?
Five Product Designers break it down.
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Design
Designers Chat Part 2: When Is It Time for a Design System?
Five Product Designers discuss the ideal starting point.
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Design
3 Designers Reflect on Leading Design 2022
From considering going C-level to finding your ikigai.
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