Being a Data-driven designer empowers you to identify problems and make informed decisions by leveraging user feedback, analytics, and cross-team insights. Venessa discusses how to become a data-driven designer.

Venessa shows you how to advocate for users in a business setting with a lack of user testing. Covering how to: understand your users, gather metrics, connect data to business goals, and compare/present the data to advocate for design changes.

Nessa’s knowledge bombs are a series of short bite-size bombs of advice that I have learned over my career.

When speaking to other design leaders, the discussion often moves to the value of design. Reflecting on this, I asked myself why are we still having this discussion. In this article, I explore why that is and what designers can do about it.

Being able to timebox design is an essential skill to nail if you are a designer. It is a great way to deliver value fast and to demonstrate how design can be agile. At the heart of timeboxing design are communication and planning; they help to create a shared understanding amongst the team and stakeholders.

Nessa’s knowledge bombs are a series of short bite-size bombs of advice that I have learned over my career.

Being a designer can be challenging, especially in a cross-functional when you are the only designer. All is not lost, designers often have a lot more power than they think, by using data, insights, and collaboration they can persuade even the toughest stakeholders.

Nessa’s knowledge bombs are a series of short bite-size bombs of advice that I have learned over the years.

Nessa’s knowledge bombs are a series of short bite-size bombs of advice that I have learned over the years.

Working in a cross-functional team and collaborating closely with engineers to create great products.

Here are my 5 tips that I have picked up while doing remote sketching sessions over the past year or so.

Progressing your career can be tough especially in the ever-changing world of design, here are 5 tips that I have picked while working in the design industry.