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Aug 10

What Wordle can teach us about mistake tolerance

if you struggle to understand the very direct relationship between mistake tolerance and creativity, I often reference Wordle (and similar games) to demonstrate this. How would your approach (and attitude) change if you only got one guess? How about two guesses? How often would you win? …

Creativity

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Creativity

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Jul 13

Why design systems fail

I got 99 problems but components ain’t one I worked on my first design system back in 2006 (as a point of reference, the original iPhone launched in 2007, and the first iPad in 2010). At the time, I worked for a large enterprise software company with just a handful…

Design Systems

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Design Systems

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Mar 18, 2021

How I make remote work work

Recently there have been a flurry of articles and tweet threads about remote work, perhaps because we are at the one year mark when it was forced upon most of us. It is likely no surprise that I have OPINIONS about this topic. The background: I have been working remotely…

Remote Working

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How I make remote work work
How I make remote work work
Remote Working

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·Jul 13, 2018

Burn it down

It may surprise you to know that no, I actually don’t enjoy ranting and swearing on twitter. I’m a UX professional by trade. All I really want to do is design effective experiences for non-evil companies and work with non-asshole people who make me better at what I do. I’m…

Information Architecture

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Information Architecture

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Karen VanHouten

Karen VanHouten

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Curious skeptic. Chaotic good. Unfucker of clusters, digital and analog. Kind of sweary.

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