Kyle Harris on Atomic Spin

Why Your App/System Rewrite Will Probably Be Bigger Than You Think

Users will lose trust in a rewritten system if they cannot do everything they expected to do. This is especially true for internal systems.

Growing as Makers

How to Present Your Portfolio at a Software Design Job Interview

This is your time to present who you are as a designer and what you do best. Control the room, focus on quality over quantity, and sweat the details.

Project & Team Management

Want More Effective Meetings? Play Games

Games are fun – and not chaotic – because they have rules, boundaries, and structure. The same should apply to meetings.

Project & Team Management

Using “We” Language to Build Bonds with Clients

Saying "we" emphasizes shared goals and reduces tension. It turns the client vs. consultant relationship into a partnership.

UX/Design Tools

The Case for Starting Your Project with an Ecosystem Map

An Ecosystem Maps is the absolute best way to quickly understand a client's business environment. It shows all the high-level exchanges of value between the client and the groups i

Project & Team Management

The Guide to Being a Pessimistic Designer

The world needs more pessimistic designers. Here's how you can say "no" when it needs saying, while making your team and project stronger.

Growing as Makers

Get Caught Up in the Small Victories on Big Projects

It’s the small victories along the way that give us the energy to reach the final goal. They give us renewed motivation, especially during setbacks.

UX/Design Practices

Should UX/UI Designers Code? Finding a Balance Between Yes and No

If you're unwilling to understand what your development team has to do to implement a feature you designed, software might not be the industry for you.

UX/Design Tools

Using Nested Symbols in Sketch to Build Powerful, Customizable, Enterprise UI Mock-ups – Part 3: Putting it All Together

With the help of Sketch's Nested Symbols, I’ll show you how to make a data-dense Enterprise UI mockups that are flexible and customizable.

UX/Design Tools

Using Nested Symbols in Sketch to Build Powerful, Customizable, Enterprise UI Mock-ups – Part 2: Buttons and Table Elements

Creating buttons and table elements you can quickly customize on the fly for an Enterprise UI, using Sketch's Nested Symbols.

UX/Design Tools

Using Nested Symbols in Sketch to Build Powerful, Customizable, Enterprise UI Mock-ups – Part 1: Getting Started

Organization and best practices for using Nested Symbols in Sketch to create symbol libraries for a powerful, flexible Enterprise UI.

Project & Team Management

Experiencing the Client/Consultant Relationship from the Other Side

My wife and I recently had our bathroom redone and, well — there's nothing like having a terrible consultant to make you want to be a better one.

Kyle Harris

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