Venessa shows you how to advocate for users in a business setting with a lack of user testing. Covering how to: understand your users, gather metrics, connect data to business goals, and compare/present the data to advocate for design changes.

Venessa discusses essential factors to consider before accepting a job offer, including the quality of management, career growth opportunities, alignment with personal values, and the company's commercial health. Venessa emphasises the importance of treating job interviews as a two-way process, where candidates evaluate the company as much as the company evaluates them.

This year I ventured into the realm of public speaking. It was a big challenge for me, but it was something that I wanted to master. Here are my learnings after a year of speaking.

When speaking to other design leaders, the discussion often moves to the value of design. Reflecting on this, I asked myself why are we still having this discussion. In this article, I explore why that is and what designers can do about it.

Being able to timebox design is an essential skill to nail if you are a designer. It is a great way to deliver value fast and to demonstrate how design can be agile. At the heart of timeboxing design are communication and planning; they help to create a shared understanding amongst the team and stakeholders.

Being a designer can be challenging, especially in a cross-functional when you are the only designer. All is not lost, designers often have a lot more power than they think, by using data, insights, and collaboration they can persuade even the toughest stakeholders.