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The Most Critical Soft Skills for UX
Sword & Sharpie is all about helping designers improve their soft skills to make a bigger impact on the world and grow their influence. To tackle that mission, I'm working on a soft skills framework specifically for UX designers. I'm gathering research and input...
Welcome to Sword & Sharpie
At Sword & Sharpie, I believe that user experience is about more than wireframes and pixels, fonts and layouts, personas and one-way mirrors. All of those things are important, beautiful, wonderful things. But how well you can craft a user interface or customer...
Designing Without Enough Time
Are you on a project where there isn't quite enough time to really get the job done? Or maybe there's NOWHERE NEAR ENOUGH! We've all been there. Check out our 5 Ways to Get More Time for UX. But if it's a little late for that, here are 4 ideas for working more...
5 Ways to Get More Time For UX
Sometimes we all find ourselves on a team or project where UX hasn't been quite estimated correctly—to put it nicely. Are you pulling your hair out feeling frustrated that you don't have enough time to do your work? At least not to the quality level that you prefer?...
Wisdom
If you don't know about Ash Maurya, you really should.
The Unicorn Caveat
So I just wrote a lot about the perks of being a unicorn. There's a little nuance I'd like to add to the discussion, however. The widespread adoption of the term 'unicorn' is a little ironic, in that the slang originated around unrealistic job postings. Those...
