I’d like to be a better visual designer. Assume I’m ~ new. Can you recommend an overall approach or strategy?
Reminder: if you love these blog posts, buy my essay collection. Keep me writing! I went a little crazy in this tweetstorm, because I believe all people who make things for humans must commit to at least a basic grounding…
My Year in Highlights
Here are this year’s highlights from my reading on the kindle. I find it interesting that I barely highlit anything in my favorite books (Being Mortal, Moonwalking with Einstein) but I do usually only highlight from things I plan to use…
10 Ways to Read More Books Next Year
After reading 70 books, Austin Kleon listed his advice on reading more books. I hit my personal adult reading record this year also, and thought I’d share some changes I made that made it possible. The first moment of the day…
Favorite Reads in 2014
In 2014, I went everywhere. That’s a topic for another post. But travel means lots and lots of airplane time, which means lots and lots of time on Kindle. When I did a quick count, I had read over 80 books….
A Booklist to Help You Become Great at User Experience Design
If someone wanted to become great at UX design, what is the ONE book you'd recommend they read, and why? I'll hold my response for now. — Christina Wodtke (@cwodtke) November 18, 2013 Now let me preface this by saying I…
Designers and Doctors
Several years back, John Zapolski urged all the members of my design team to read Atul Gawnde’s essay “Whose body is it anyway?”, replacing the word doctor with designer and patient with client. His point was that, like doctors, we…
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