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Figma, I love you but you’re bringing me down

Confronting the conflict between what’s possible and what’s practical

6 min readApr 24, 2023

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Murphy’s law of design: If anything can go wrong, it will

That’s not an unlucky fate; it’s a design challenge.

9 min readMar 16, 2021

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Advertisement for Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups that says “There’s no wrong way to eat a Reese’s”

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The origins of product design

Raymond Loewy and the birth of the design discipline

6 min readDec 6, 2021

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On the left, a professional portrait of Raymond Loewy. On the right, a picture of his famous redesigned Gestetner duplicator machine.

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The muted majority

Users who can’t even find the microphone to tell you what’s wrong

7 min readSep 21, 2023

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A meet-less diet

This year, resolve to nourish your calendar with fewer, more meaningful meetings

11 min readJan 6, 2023

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Similar food pyramid imagery from beginning of article but without the food pictures. On the bottom layer is “DMs, notes, emails, group chats.” The sections above read “recordings, slide decks, diagrams, and spreadsheets.” Above that are “quick calls and face-to-face.” Lastly at the top is “Meetings.”

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Should designers argue?

Searching for something healthy among our toxic traits

4 min readSep 21, 2022

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A word cloud-type arrangement of words and phrases frequently used in debates among designers. Examples include: “UX vs UI,” “Should Designers Code?,” “UX Gatekeeping,” “Stop calling users users”

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Why component properties will save your design system

Figma dropped some huge new features this month and you need to embrace them

6 min readMay 25, 2022

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A vast array of hundreds of carefully placed hand tools, wrenches, mallets, pliers, saws, drillbits, etc. sprawls across a clean, solid, light-colored background.

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Wordle UX: Sometimes a game just feels good

How can we explain something so simple yet so popular?

6 min readJan 21, 2022

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Letters U and X on a colorful grid that resembles the Wordle interface

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If you’re reading this, thank an OKR

Setting New Year resolutions in another bleak, unmotivating year of pandemic life

8 min readJan 3, 2022

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Still from the TV show “The Good Place.” Characters Chidi and Tahani hold up t-shirts that say “Pobody’s Nerfect.”

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Doing RITE Wrong

User research is a science — don’t overlook the scientific method

7 min readDec 20, 2021

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Joe Bernstein

Joe Bernstein

UX designer, wordsmith, thought leader. Specializes in data viz, Figma, and design systems. Unwinds with trivia, softball, and crosswords. Resides in Seattle.

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