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“Wisdom is a useless gift unless you share it”
- Esther Williams

Whether it's through blogging, speaking at conferences, or simply talking to fellow creatives, I believe that sharing knowledge and experience is one of the best ways to help others grow and succeed. With each conversation, I learn something new and gain a fresh perspective on the world of design and entrepreneurship.

2024
3 Oct The Power of Adaptability
2024
29 Jul Understanding your core values through reflection
2024
12 Jun Can you be creative just by creating?
2024
29 May Write when you have something to say
2024
13 May A question never asked is never answered
2024
23 Apr After 15 years, change is coming!
2024
25 Mar The Stakeholder Interview
2024
22 Mar The Tools I Use to Run My Business
2024
19 Mar Creating a UX Strategy
2024
4 Mar Print design principles in a digital world
2024
26 Feb Digital tools may create life long relationships
2024
6 Feb Writing’s gift? Better design
2024
29 Jan Trying out no-code tools
2024
18 Jan Freelancing: three values that change everything
2024
3 Jan Resolving to be a 'better form' of ourselves in 2024
2023
18 Dec 2023 in review
2023
4 Dec Why carousels don't work
2023
20 Nov One question changed feedback for me
2023
6 Nov How I write for design
2023
24 Oct The power of product principles
2023
13 Sep Unreasonable hospitality
2023
18 Aug The Importance of Kindness and Alignment in Building Exceptional Teams
2023
12 Aug My newsletter list is getting smaller, just as I intended.
2023
28 Jul Consequences in design
2023
29 Jun How to sell design
2023
25 May Working with Anton
2023
27 Apr Why I write
2023
13 Apr AI: Do we really “get it”?
2023
25 Mar New year, new brand, same Anton
2023
26 Jan Creating Meaningful Design Systems: Embracing the Box and Reaping the Benefits
2022
9 Dec 2022 - Year in Review
2022
5 Dec Curiosity drives us forward
2022
7 Nov Interview: Matthew, Head of Product
2022
13 Sep Just write
2022
31 Aug Buying a car online? Polestar does it right
2022
4 Jul Ask the right questions: Company Culture
2022
29 Jun Website refresh
2022
9 May Imposter Syndrome
2022
2 May Did UX designers ruin fun for efficiency?
2022
5 Apr Connecting the dots
2022
31 Jan When will the Web grow up?
2022
19 Jan Work is more than a list of tasks
2022
10 Jan Junior vs Senior: A Conversation
2021
20 Dec 2021 - Year in Review
2021
24 Nov Utilizing feedback
2021
1 Nov Exercising your potential: As if
2021
1 Nov Profits or culture
2021
11 Oct Break your own laws
2021
22 Sep What does "best" mean?
2021
23 Aug Design Systems 101
2021
5 Aug Defining the WHAT and WHY of Design Principles
2021
5 Jul Full-time? I feel a change coming
2021
8 Jun Ethics in Design - Part 2
2021
31 May Ethics in Design - Part 1
2021
4 May Career trajectories aren’t a straight line - and that’s ok
2021
19 Apr What are Design Principles? Part 4
2021
12 Apr What are Design Principles? Part 3
2021
29 Mar What are Design Principles? Part 2
2021
22 Mar What are Design Principles? Part 1
2021
8 Mar Home office or office at home?
2021
1 Mar 40 - halfway there
2021
25 Jan My typical day
2021
2 Jan Looking back - 2020
2020
1 Oct Good design
2020
21 Sep Books that helped me grow
2020
7 Sep Designers: design less, think more
2020
24 Aug Working as a UX Lead - following up
2020
19 Aug A good design review
2020
10 Aug More isn’t better
2020
3 Aug Freelancer vs Consultant
2020
23 Jun Marketing features
2020
22 Jun Summer update
2020
8 Jun Managing a distributed team
2020
1 Jun The Need for Speed, 23 Years Later
2020
11 May What you do ≠ what you are
2020
27 Apr Design better, not more
2020
30 Mar Why wireframes are becoming obsolete
2020
29 Mar Get static
2020
16 Mar Emotions and work - know yourself
2020
11 Mar What Great Managers Do
2020
11 Mar Wireframes are too concrete
2020
2 Mar Answering your question - How I design
2020
1 Mar Hard startups
2020
24 Feb Wasting it
2020
17 Feb Understanding team culture
2020
14 Feb Engagement is an antimetric
2020
12 Feb Investing in things that don’t go out of style
2020
10 Feb How Slack ruined work
2020
10 Feb What We Want Doesn’t Always Make Us Happy
2020
7 Feb Basecamp is releasing a new product, Hey
2020
5 Feb A newsletter is a relationship
2020
4 Feb UX: What happens when the user wants out?
2020
30 Jan Debbie Millman - Time Well Spent
2020
28 Jan The last tracker was just removed from Basecamp.com
2020
22 Jan Fathom Analytics
2020
20 Jan Redesign to learn
2019
16 Dec Year in review: 2019
2019
4 Nov Why Designers Need To Speak Business
2019
16 Oct The Hot Potato Process
2019
8 Oct Finding Your Professional Path
2019
24 Sep Learning UX From The Real World
2019
26 Aug Measuring UX with HEART
2019
16 Aug Freelance and Business And Stuff
2019
12 Aug UX can’t be defined by one set of "rules"
2019
30 Jul 5 Years - 300+ Posts!
2019
24 Jul Why Consultants Quit Their Jobs to Go Independent
2019
24 Jul Superhuman and email privacy
2019
16 Jul Give them candy: small details make all the difference
2019
18 Jun Let’s assemble like the Avengers and... do work
2019
18 Jun You care more about your privacy than you think
2019
13 Jun Big Mood Machine
2019
7 Jun Just write: why Product Designers should write, and how to get started
2019
7 Jun Dos and dont’s on designing for accessibility
2019
4 Jun I’ve redesigned my website and it looks exactly the same
2019
23 May Simple is expensive
2019
20 May The next iPhone
2019
20 May Whose problem are you solving?
2019
13 May What “intuitive” really means
2019
11 May Hey Google, stop trying to redefine privacy
2019
10 May There’s no crazy like soccer crazy
2019
5 May Running my own company for ten years
2019
29 Apr Scapegoating User Experience Design
2019
29 Apr Clip sharing with Overcast
2019
24 Apr Accenture sued $32m+ over website redesign for Hertz
2019
24 Apr Why don’t we just use Material Design?
2019
23 Apr Venture capital money kills more businesses than it helps
2019
16 Apr The elegance of nothing
2019
11 Apr Amazon Workers Are Listening to What You Tell Alexa
2019
8 Apr Working as a UX-lead
2019
3 Apr Gumroadday: Get my books at -17% discount
2019
25 Mar Working as a UX designer
2019
20 Mar Meet Q: The First Genderless Voice
2019
20 Mar It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work
2019
11 Mar How Notion pulled itself back from the brink of failure
2019
11 Mar What’s the meaning of work?
2019
6 Mar Accessibility, a powerful design tool
2019
6 Mar Neurodiversity and the Digital Divide: how our neurological differences shape the way we experience the web
2019
6 Mar Wireframes are becoming less relevant — and that’s a good thing
2019
25 Feb What is worth waiting for?
2019
11 Feb Voice assistants - are they really the future?
2019
28 Jan Writing as part of the UX process
2019
23 Jan Keeping AI Honest
2019
22 Jan Imagine a world without ads targeted by personal information
2019
18 Jan Right to privacy
2019
14 Jan Prescribed Technological Therapy: Is this our future?
2019
3 Jan Why we need to slow time and scale down
2018
28 Dec 2018 in review
2018
20 Dec What We Talk About When We Talk About Design Ethics
2018
22 Oct I’m taking a break
2018
12 Oct Organized for browsing
2018
8 Oct Tim Cook talks to VICE News Tonight about privacy
2018
8 Oct Stay humble, stay eager
2018
24 Sep What about ’my’ responsibilities?
2018
18 Sep Tesla, software and disruption
2018
16 Sep Forget the new iPhones - Apple’s best product is now privacy
2018
13 Sep The iPhone Franchise
2018
12 Sep The Long Goodbye (To Facebook)
2018
12 Sep Automation, Unemployment, and Universal Income
2018
10 Sep Serving your customer, valuing yourself
2018
30 Aug Living among baby robots
2018
30 Aug Yuval Noah Harari on what the year 2050 has in store for humankind
2018
28 Aug How I kicked my email compulsion
2018
28 Aug Voice Input’s Effect on Social Norms
2018
24 Aug Facebook's struggle to moderate itself
2018
21 Aug The Secret to Ant Efficiency Is Idleness
2018
19 Aug Google Employees Are Organizing To Protest the Company’s Secret Search Engine
2018
17 Aug Why Small Teams Win
2018
13 Aug Back to Work!
2018
12 Aug The Bullshit Web
2018
1 Aug Nikhil Sonnad on the banal evil of Facebook
2018
23 Jul Five questions UX employers should be asking
2018
20 Jul Just keep at it
2018
16 Jul Cheap Shower Curtains
2018
16 Jul Rands Information Practises
2018
16 Jul The Race to a Trillion
2018
2 Jul Tech Sector Values are Broken?
2018
25 Jun Confirmation Bias in Design
2018
11 Jun Designer Ethics & The Moral Implications of our Apps
2018
4 Jun Conversion optimization with A/B tests
2018
28 May AI Ethics - A New Skill for UX-Designers
2018
14 May How do you learn UX?
2018
7 May Unfoundered
2018
6 May Microcontent: A Few Small Words Have a Mega Impact on Business
2018
5 May What’s in a pattern name
2018
5 May GDPR is ruining my life
2018
5 May Twitter logged all user’s passwords in plain text
2018
5 May Requests for Personal Data From Apple, Google, and Facebook Compared
2018
27 Apr A Modest Guide to Productivity
2018
27 Apr Apple Should Make an Instagram Clone
2018
27 Apr Google Debuts a Standalone To-Do App, Google Tasks
2018
26 Apr Vanity Metrics
2018
24 Apr Tech is not Neutral
2018
23 Apr Facebook to exclude North American users from some privacy enhancements
2018
18 Apr Netflix has to "produce great content, market it well, serve it up beautifully."
2018
16 Apr Design Systems: Better UX through Defined Standards
2018
16 Apr My #1 Piece of Advice to Freelancers: Lean Into The Moment
2018
9 Apr Why Small Teams Win
2018
2 Apr What’s a ‘User Experience’ Anyways?
2018
27 Mar Don't use the F word (freelancer)
2018
20 Mar New Tools Don’t Always Equal Productivity
2018
4 Mar Voice Input is the Next Big Thing - Or is It?
2018
28 Feb Pricing Philisophy
2018
22 Feb C.A.R.E - A simple framework for user onboarding
2018
19 Feb A better user experience...or?
2018
11 Feb Everything Easy is Hard Again
2018
6 Feb How to succeed at freelancing
2018
22 Jan The Future of Retail
2018
15 Jan Hawaii Missile Alert
2018
8 Jan 2017 review
2018
5 Jan Has Apple lost its design mojo?
2017
12 Dec Measure your worth, know your motivations
2017
27 Nov The secret formula for great user experiences
2017
14 Nov Enjoyable UX vs. Usable UX
2017
10 Nov Living a Testing Culture
2017
10 Nov Checkout for Winners
2017
31 Oct What do you do?
2017
16 Oct Calling bullshit on ‘Apple is really bad at design’
2017
3 Oct UX-writer: A New term, a Big Need
2017
25 Sep Stop Saying E-mail is Broken
2017
25 Sep How To Predict Your Future
2017
11 Sep Carpe Diem UX-designers
2017
4 Sep What´s Good Design?
2017
29 Aug Chasing Growth
2017
21 Aug Are Your Customers Flowers or Plants?
2017
15 Aug A Redesign
2017
14 Jul Being Freelance Podcast: Episode 100
2017
5 Jul True fans or just followers?
2017
8 Jun Become a better UX-designer with these three words
2017
8 Jun 10 Reasons Why All Designers Should Start Writing More
2017
6 Jun Vox Media Accessibility Guidelines
2017
5 Jun Writing for UX: some practical tips
2017
30 May The future of the UX-Designer
2017
28 May How to attract top recruiting talent
2017
25 May Why Designers Need to Write
2017
22 May How better onboarding cut our drop-off rate dramatically
2017
17 May Understanding Great User Experiences
2017
5 Apr New isn’t always better, but it makes the old feel worse
2017
28 Mar Designing for Mobile
2017
20 Mar The Possibilities of Automated Personalized Content
2017
13 Mar Atomic Design: where science and design collide
2017
6 Mar Is Less More?
2017
21 Feb Designing for Accessibility
2017
7 Feb Why Simple is Hard
2017
19 Jan Becoming a Better Designer
2017
5 Jan Without Struggle, There Isn’t Success
2016
10 Dec Email Marketing: High Returns, Low Investment
2016
28 Nov Apple is User Hostile… Or is it?
2016
23 Aug What do Conversions Mean to You?
2016
9 Aug User Experiences that Matter 2:nd Edition
2016
11 Jul 5Things Football can Teach Us About Building Products
2016
27 Jun Trusting Your Gut
2016
10 Jun What are Bots and Why are They Important?
2016
30 May Change is Quick, Results Take Time
2016
17 May Making Promises Your Clients Will Feel
2016
30 Apr Designing with Emotions in Mind
2016
18 Apr UX Design as a Problem Solver
2016
11 Apr The Life of a Freelancer Shouldn’t be a Lonely One
2016
4 Apr The Secret Feature that Everyone Knows About
2016
21 Mar No One Really Knows What They Want Anyway
2016
7 Mar Built to last
2016
22 Feb Be the Butcher not the Supermarket
2016
9 Feb The Interactive Car Dashboard
2016
25 Jan Simplicity – Be Your Own MVP
2016
12 Jan Why User Experiences Matter
2015
16 Dec An Eye on the Future
2015
7 Dec The Fundamentals of Good UX
2015
17 Nov What is a Great User Experience?
2015
3 Nov The Extra Effort for Great UX
2015
19 Oct Everyone is a UX-designer and Why I Hate the Term
2015
21 Sep Time vs. Attention: Which is More Valuable?
2015
3 Sep Growing Relationships by Understanding Values
2015
24 Aug UX is Much More than Software
2015
11 Aug Hey Siri, what’s the future of user interfaces?
2015
28 Jul Understanding Pain Dream Fix
2015
13 Jul I am Professional Because I am Personal
2015
30 Jun MVP: Is Your Product Really Minimum AND Viable?
2015
26 Jun How designers can earn a seat at the table
2015
23 Jun The days are long but the decades are short
2015
16 Jun Growth
2015
16 Jun Working with UX-designers and getting results!
2015
3 Jun What is the cost of sharing?
2015
12 May Freelancer for Life: 5 Reasons Why This Works
2015
5 May Working with me
2015
14 Apr UX Design explained
2015
14 Apr Understanding UI Design
2015
14 Apr Kudos: Social Media framework
2014
13 Nov Conversations
2013
9 Apr Cost, pricing and perceived value