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Designed Transitions

Transitioning as a principal designer

Principal designers navigate unconventional career paths as they grow. What can we learn from these messy paths to navigate transitions?

Dec 27, 2022

Transitioning as a principal designer

Dec 27, 2022

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Adding life back to my notes: Roam after 4 months

A note-thinking tool for rich, messily connected, multi-dimensional work

Apr 20, 2021

Adding life back to my notes: Roam after 4 months

Apr 20, 2021

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UX Collective

Learn like a teacher-scientist, think like a product manager, work like a designer

Recently, I found myself saying designers should be thinking more like product managers but continue to solve problems through the work of…

Dec 9, 2020

xkcd: The Difference comic strip

Dec 9, 2020

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Service Design Advent Calendar

Course Notes: Methodologies for Service Design

Day 7 of the eclectic Service Design Advent Calendar

Dec 5, 2021

Course Notes: Methodologies for Service Design

Dec 5, 2021

Design discovery is more muscle over means

Discovery as a verb

Nov 3, 2021

Nov 3, 2021

My sketchnote collection from all the years

I’ve amassed a sizable collection of sketchnotes over the years mostly from conference talks. I started in 2010, and it’s been a really…

Oct 21, 2021

My insert in Mike Rohde’s sketchnote handbook, 2012

Oct 21, 2021

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Bootcamp

Resources: Systems thinking for designers

There seems to be a growing interest on systems thinking and systemic design amongst designers, evidenced by this year’s Interaction21…

Feb 15, 2021

The Perilous Bingo board, themes and votes from Interaction21 attendees

Feb 15, 2021

Me: Weathering 2020. Ambivalent about 2021.

2020 has obviously been a very different year—I’m grateful my situation has been largely uneventful, somewhat repetitive throughout. I’ve…

Dec 31, 2020

Dec 31, 2020

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UX Collective

A starter guide to strategy when there are so many strategies

In my travels, I’ve been equally confused and inspired by strategy. By strategy, I mean:

Nov 22, 2020

A starter guide to strategy when there are so many strategies

Nov 22, 2020

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UX Collective

How I’ve blended systems thinking into my design work

The shadow of systems thinking looms over everything I do, partly because I really enjoy learning and understanding complex things, but…

Jul 23, 2020

diagram showing the 7-steps of soft systems methodology

Jul 23, 2020

Boon Yew Chew

Boon Yew Chew

1.98K Followers

Senior principal UX designer at Elsevier. IxDA local leader and board alumni. Strategy. Systems. Visual thinking. Design. Has a brain in his stomach.

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