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How to understand your impact in the brave new world of product design
If you design products, you have more power and influence than you realize. This is a call for awareness and change in a time when Everything is Design.
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Josh Taylor
8 critical skills of effective design leaders
In an increasingly collaborative design world, hard and fast rules don't necessarily apply. But traits like emotional intelligence, future-obsession, and ability to trust rise to the top.
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Amy Schroeder
Start building your dream integration with the Abstract SDK
The Abstract SDK is a JavaScript package that wraps both our web API and our desktop CLI in a unified interface.
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Giving UX writing a seat at the design table
Effective UX writing can turn a good user experience into a great one.
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Kasey Fleisher Hickey
Stop dwelling on being design-led: Focus on the user.
To build more powerful products, no one function should play a supporting role.
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Heather Phillips
The end of the celebrity designer
A more open approach to design helps build better products and demystifies the process for the rest of the company.
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Tim Van Damme
Decolonizing Silicon Valley: The critical role of inclusion in tech
Chief People and Inclusion Officer Jabu Dayton shares her hiring philosophy.
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Inclusion is a choice
How you build is just as important as what you’re building.
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Reflecting on Abstract’s first year
One year ago, we publicly launched the Abstract Beta. Here's where we've been and where we're headed.
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