Aysha Samrin

UX + Product Designer | Design Educator | Young millennial learning about building wealth and the rules of success. I tweet about things I find interesting.

[Julie Zhuo @joulee]

How PMs push back against designers:

"That's not the priority right now"
"We don't have the eng resources for that"
"This design is not going to work"
"The data shows that metrics dropped with this design change"

Here's how you can respond 👇 (1/10)

[Prof. Feynman @ProfFeynman]

Love yourself. But also analyze and be critical of how you think, act & behave. Self love without self awareness is useless. Be accountable.

[Chantelle @ccmarce_writes]

In the early 1900s women were still constrained by Victorian-era, conservative beauty standards.

Dyeing your hair in particular was seen as a practice done only by “loose women” and s*x workers, not respectable society ladies.

But one marketing campaign helped change that.
👇

[Shivani Berry @shivanisberry]

Your boss says: “Can I give you some feedback?”

If you’re like me, you brace for impact! 😬😬

And yet... every top exec I've met does the opposite.

They *hunt down* feedback before people think to give it. They're feedback magnets.

How to acquire this skill —>

[Dan Brown (he/him) 👓 @brownorama]

UX folks!
Did you know I recorded an interview series over the summer with 51 different UX professionals?
In every episode we dug in deep on information architecture.
Each episode is short enough to listen to over a lunch break!

[Dickie Bush @dickiebush]

The most creative company of the last 30 years:

Pixar.

Back in 2011, Pixar storyboard artist Emma Coats shared their "22 Rules For Storytelling."

And the rules are a must-read for writers, entrepreneurs, and anyone who wants to tell captivating stories.

Here's the breakdown:

[Adrienne Barnes😊 @AdrienneNakohl]

Want to take your buyer persona from generic templated trope to a research-based functional persona you can actually use??

Let's chat about what you can do today to go from a useless persona to one that gets used for everything from content to product.

[Zain Kahn @heykahn]

Hard skills get you hired.

But soft skills get you promoted.

I went from 0 to VP in 3 years.

Here are 11 soft skills to accelerate your career:

[Trung Phan @TrungTPhan]

A Netflix user will browse the app for 90 seconds and leave if they find nothing.

Thumbnail artwork is actually NFLX's most effective lever to influence a viewer's choice. A user will look at one for only 1.8 seconds, so NFLX spends huge to optimize them.

Here's a breakdown🧵

[Meagan Fisher Couldwell @owltastic]

I've worked with designers who struggle to talk about their typography choices when presenting new work. Often it's just like "hey here's some font options, what do you like?" So I thought it might be helpful to share how I talk about fonts when presenting designs. 😊🔠👇

[MOMiana @NeceActually]

I wish employers would understand that culture is not just perks & happy hours. It’s also the way employees work. 8am & 5pm meetings? That’s culture. Constantly being scheduled over lunch hours? Culture. False sense of urgency? Culture. Improperly scoped projects? Culture.

[Victor @vponamariov]

UI/UX Tip 💡

Obvious, but often overlooked thing.

When you show an SMS/Push notification with a verification code, make sure it's visible without opening the SMS.

Actually, it's a golden rule: the fewer actions users have to make, the better.

[Chris Hladczuk @chrishlad]

Most advice sucks.

So I crowdsourced the best from 20 million people on Reddit.

Here are 10 life tips you wish you knew yesterday👇

[Adam Grant @AdamMGrant]

Emails in your inbox are less urgent than they appear.

New data: we think people expect faster night/weekend replies than they actually do—and they underestimate our stress.

Simple fix: "This isn't urgent, so get to it whenever you can."
Or just wait until normal hours to send.

[Abhishek @designerSaha]

15 UX/UI Design Inspiration Sites

A thread 🧵👇

[Laurie @laurieontech]

Half the "for security" UI decisions have nothing to do with security and are actually just terrible UX.

I'm looking at you no-pasting form fields.

[Chris Hladczuk @chrishlad]

If you use it right, Google is the most powerful tool in the world.

But the truth is most people suck at it.

Here are 8 Googling tips that you probably don't know👇

[✺ nadia ✺ poster therapy @heynadiahey]

Wo-hoo, I got promoted to a Senior Product Designer at @gitlab! 🥳

Here are 10 things I learnt on my path as a self-taught product designer (thread)

[George Moller @_georgemoller]

💡 Did you know about these 7 UX laws?

🧵 Thread 👇

[Bret Taylor @btaylor]

What is a technology prediction in which you had strong conviction that turned out to be wrong?