Side Projects

Thoughts

• Lake Como – Feb 2024

• The Fresh Maker

• Rome – Jan 2024

• Side Project + Endurance

• Custom PHP Error Log (w/ full code)

• Build it with them

• Kathleen Regular Font

• Day trip to NYC

• Sabbatical reflections

• Oregon coast (Oct 2023)

• Thankful for Automattic

• Defining success as a design lead

• Belonging

• Resistance makes side projects hard

• Reminders for my daughters

• Distributed is still the future

• Delight lives in the margins

• Design team playbooks

• Hiking the PCT over 10 yrs

• Land your dream job as a designer

• What’s in a job title?

• Blogging again

• Alaska – Aug 2023

• Vienna – Designer Meetup

• Loop Team – Playa Del Carmen, Mexico

• “Build” by Tony Fadell – Book notes

• This Is Me

• “Powerful” notes

• Caution: Work fills the space you give it

• Tiny House Inspiration

• Coach Bill Campbell

• Japan, April 2019

• Everything I Wish I knew About Stock Options 15 Years Ago

• Hold Regular Negativity Audits

• Clever Onboarding Video

• It’s not about me

• Principles, People, Product, Profit

• Interesting Alternative to Freemium Pricing

• Designing a Great “Close My Account” Experience

• What can Cookbooks Teach Us About Design Systems?

• Ways for Designers to Learn JavaScript

• Making it easy for users to proactively give you feedback

• Duolingo’s Dynamic Homepage

• Test Every Assumption

• Complete Novice to Full-time Product Designer in 1-2 Years

• Embrace Process, Avoid Ego

• Always Work on Side Projects

• Start Each Design from Scratch

• Reducing Time to Clarity with Your Designs

• Don’t Pay for Design School

• Micro Business Aspirations

• Finding Balance

• Appearances

• I’ll Stay Micro, Thanks

• Tenacity

• Character

• How painful is your app?

• Our two day old angel

• My Dream Job

• Copenhagen Designer Meetup

• Atlanta Designer Meetup

• The designer sweet spot: Gut driven design that’s data informed

• Chef’s table

• Slack’s Design

• Inside Automattic’s remote hiring process

• MicroConf 2015

• Habit Summit Notes

• Remembering to separate proposed solutions from insights & observations

• 15 min well spent

• The future is bright

• Snowpocalypse NC :-)

• Startup Idea – Gym of the future

• A list of reasons why I’m a Mormon

• Learning to ignore the Sirens

• Let’s stop with all of the bandwagon wisdom.

• Theme Meetup in Kaua’i

• “Creativity Inc” book notes

• Life Advice – A Woman from Minnesota

• Team Tinker Meetup – Banff Canada

• The Automattic Designers Creed

• Data informed vs. data driven

• 84 highlights from The Startup Playbook

• WP-admin Static Front-page UI Proposal

• Grand Meetup Eating Contest

• Automattic 2014 Grand Meetup

• Speed of change

• Miami with Cloudup Team

• Cabo with Automattic Ads Team

• Great UI’s can’t be rushed

• Early on, even great user interfaces suck

• Startups, what if you never hired dedicated support people?

• Bridge walk – Golden Gate

• Putting down roots