Kris McDonald

Traveling type-enthusiast; former world's youngest person. He/him

[Kris McDonald @krismcd]

My jokes never get old OR funny.

[Shit Product Manager @shitPM]

This Ken is a PM.

[Pavel A. Samsonov @PavelASamsonov]

Be very afraid of work without explicit success criteria. Sunk cost will be used to justify sinking even more work into it, forever.

[Shreyas Doshi @shreyas]

Some companies give onerous take-home assignments (>10 hours) for PM interviews, thinking that is fine because candidates “excited about the job” will spend that time, but this filters out people who are serious about their *current* job and these are the people you need to hire.

[Kris McDonald @krismcd]

Still the best portfolio teaser by a million miles

https://t.co/uhNd5CVZWR

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

1978: AppleDOS

2/46

[scott belsky @scottbelsky]

while the best designers I know favor teams and industries that fawn over design, the impact of design is most transformative in industries where design is undervalued.

perhaps a key career insight is to find a team that values your superpower in an industry that doesn’t?

[Adrián Mato 🐙 @adrianmg]

Front-end devs should be part of the Design org

[Adrián Mato 🐙 @adrianmg]

It doesn't matter how much time and care we spend working on design proposals if the end user doesn't get to experience that.

[Pavel A. Samsonov @PavelASamsonov]

"I know the system is built wrong, but can't you just fix the UI?"

[Pavel A. Samsonov @PavelASamsonov]

Trust is the currency of software design.

In low-trust environments, instead of the prod/dev/design triad, you get three people trying to be PM, designer, and lead dev all in one, because it is the only way they see to protect their own interests.

[Jared Spool @jmspool]

I’m very excited that one of my favorite all time books, Design Is a Job by ⁦@monteiro⁩, is finally coming out with its Necessary Second Edition in October 18.

You can pre-order now. https://t.co/KzR82JXZZN

[Barrett O'Neill @barrettjoneill]

One company increased sales 262.5% with this pricing strategy:

The Decoy Effect.

What it is & how to use it

[Nicole Sullivan @nicolesullivan.bsky.social @stubbornella]

Should HTML get new controls like <accordion>, <tooltip>, <carousel>, <tabs>, or <typeahead> or leave that to JS frameworks?

[Kris McDonald @krismcd]

🥲

[k @KatelinKnowsCLE]

TOM HAMILTON’S CALL OF OSCAR GONZÁLEZ WALK OFF HOME RUN!!! #ForTheLand

[Cannibal 🎃 @Cannibal]

I'm just going to optimize this one line of code.

[Laurel Mac 🇺🇦 @MAWoodlandLady]

The MAGA right talks about Black Lives Matter as if it’s some sort of equivalency for 1/6.

These talking points have a way of spreading. Let’s correct them every single time.

📚Researchers at Harvard gathered statistics from 7,305 BLM events.

Here’s what they found:

[Wolfgang Bremer @WolfgangBremer]

Junior Designer vs Senior Designer

[Carrie Goldberg @cagoldberglaw]

Last Friday, CBS cancelled a segment about our clients suing Amazon for selling suicide kits to their now deceased kids. CBS’ cowardice gave me renewed clarity about how urgent this litigation is. 🧵@naomi_leeds 1/

[Cameron Moll @cameronmoll]

The physical and emotional upside of going from 80% of your day in meetings to ~20% is indescribable.