Nic Marson
Product Designer • Author
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My personal user journey from college to career.
My mother is an artist, and I’ve excelled at art since I was five. When I reached college, I chose graphic design as my focus and started to design websites for departments around Oregon State University.
For the last twelve years I've been responsible for designing, building, implementing, and maintaining web applications. Recently, my focus has been creating and managing design systems.
Inefficiencies in workflow (I’m a big proponent of design systems), and a desire to learn (that's why I earned the Google UX Design Professional Certificate).
We are designing for people, not just ourselves. That's why I always try to bring the user into decision-making discussions. Empathizing with people helps you better understand them, and the problems they face when interacting with your product.
I read Brad Frost's Atomic design and wrote a summary.
Translating this UX to my house. When I enter the house it should be straight forward where I can find certain things.
Why hourly-based, time-and-materials style project management rewards inefficiency.
