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Janet Taylor

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Cubed

Tech workers, our culture is ridiculous

Jun 26

Tech workers, our culture is ridiculous

Jun 26

Good design is not “intuitive”

My family and I love to do escape rooms together. It’s great for building collaboration, and we each bring our own skills to the…

May 27

A rotary phone.

May 27

We still have an empathy problem

Silicon Valley still needs to do better.

May 26

May 26

Stop telling designers to stop being designers

Every so often, I’ll see a fresh wave of articles pop up with questions like:

Dec 29, 2020

Stop telling designers to stop being designers

Dec 29, 2020

Published in
Modus

The Ultimate Guide to Facilitating Design Sprints Like a Boss

Tips and tricks for running a smooth, successful workshop

Oct 6, 2019

The Ultimate Guide to Facilitating Design Sprints Like a Boss

Oct 6, 2019

Published in
The Startup

How to Make Sense of “I Don’t Like It”

Designers! We’ve all had the experience of showing our work to someone — usually someone with more power and clout than we have— who looks…

Sep 28, 2019

How to Make Sense of “I Don’t Like It”

Sep 28, 2019

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Prototypr

“As a user” needs to stop.

Sing it with me: As a _user_ I want to _perform an action_ so I can _achieve an end result_.

Aug 1, 2017

“As a user” needs to stop.

Aug 1, 2017

You Are Not A “UI/UX Designer”

I hated that term in 2000, and I still do today.

Jun 30, 2017

You Are Not A “UI/UX Designer”

Jun 30, 2017

Halloween in Mayberry

I live in a suburb of San Francisco. My town is safe and cozy. It’s known as a great place to raise a kid. Kids frequently walk or bike to…

Nov 2, 2016

Halloween in Mayberry

Nov 2, 2016

My Impostor Syndrome is an Asshole

“You’ve got impostor syndrome bad,” my spouse said to me this weekend.

May 24, 2016

My Impostor Syndrome is an Asshole

May 24, 2016

Janet Taylor

Janet Taylor

Design leader. Recovering software engineer. Views expressed here do not necessarily reflect those of my employer. She/her pronouns.

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