Archive - Metric by Michael Schofield

Product design at any extreme can be understood through a handful of jobs I’m calling Trades and their Crafts, a series of short posts - of which this…

Mar 15, 2021 •

Michael Schofield

October 2020

Exnovation, the Iceberg Model, and Expertise is Over-valued

I want to share a few totally unrelated pieces of thinking that caught my eye.

Oct 26, 2020 •

Michael Schofield

7:17

July 2020

You don't need "UX" in your title

You are in the business of UX, whether or not its in your title.

Jul 20, 2020 •

Michael Schofield

March 2020

The Value of Design in Hard Times

When the market’s taken a spill, when your earned revenue is down then the easiest line-items to cut are those that involve external consultants. Should…

Mar 23, 2020 •

Michael Schofield

3:59

What is the difference between UX and CX?

Listen now (6min) | Let’s be clear, many folks have thrown-in. This question has loads of answers, and this writeup will likely not make it to the top…

Mar 9, 2020 •

Michael Schofield

6:17

February 2020

Gutenberg doesn't disrupt WordPress

Gutenberg isn’t a breakthrough innovation that made WordPress better.

Feb 3, 2020 •

Michael Schofield

11:27

January 2020

Lessons about Design Distilled from a Goodreads Challenge

54 insights about design from mostly-not-design books.

Jan 1, 2020 •

Michael Schofield

December 2019

UX Design is Morally Gray

Folks tend to disagree with me whenever I say that user experience design is morally gray: there is no inherent requirement to making user experiences…

Dec 13, 2019 •

Michael Schofield

2:51

November 2019

Can jobs-to-be-done replace "Front End Developer"?

The “front end” is pretty nebulous.

Nov 11, 2019 •

Michael Schofield

6:47

October 2019

The Temporal Midpoint of the Sprint

The two-week sprint is totally arbitrary.

Oct 21, 2019 •

Michael Schofield

4:41

September 2019

The Service Reactor

We pitch this idea of operational user research as a means to scale and democratize user experience design practice across an organization.

Sep 9, 2019 •

Michael Schofield

4:57

March 2019

In this episode of Metric: the UX Podcast, we talk about how we deal with signal overload and notification fatigue in our design work (and in life), and…

Mar 18, 2019 •

Michael Schofield

33:30

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