Posts by Christina

Student-Created Rubrics: Preparing Designers for Real-World Quality Decisions

Student-Created Rubrics: Preparing Designers for Real-World Quality Decisions

What’s a Rubric, and Why Should We Care? A rubric is basically a scorecard for quality used by educators when...

The Counterintuitive Hiring Strategy for the AI Era: Getting Maximum ROI from Minimal Headcount

The Counterintuitive Hiring Strategy for the AI Era: Getting Maximum ROI from Minimal Headcount

Let’s be honest about where we are. Hiring freezes everywhere. Headcount reductions masquerading as “AI optimization.” An administration working overtime...

How to Hire a Real UX/Product Designer

How to Hire a Real UX/Product Designer

One of the biggest hiring mistakes I see over and over: teams looking for a UX/UI designer and ending up...

Prototypes, Turf Wars, and Vibe Coding: Who Does What Now?

Prototypes, Turf Wars, and Vibe Coding: Who Does What Now?

Designers and PMs have always stepped on each other’s toes, especially when it’s a user-centered PM and a UX or...

The Recovery OKR: Goals for Healing After Burnout

The Recovery OKR: Goals for Healing After Burnout

We usually think of OKRs as tools for growth: ambitious, aspirational, designed to push us beyond what we thought possible....

Developing Product Sense: How to See the Forest and the Trees

Developing Product Sense: How to See the Forest and the Trees

Every quarter in my Stanford Product Management class, the same question comes up: “How do I build product sense?” It’s...

What I’ve Learned from 15 Years of Doing OKRs

What I’ve Learned from 15 Years of Doing OKRs

Fifteen years ago, I began experimenting with OKRs, starting at Zynga and then as I worked with startups and companies...

We Did This to Ourselves

We Did This to Ourselves

The Chicago Sun-Times summer reading fiasco made the rounds online, drawing quick-fire reactions from across the spectrum. Most people fell...

Metrics Are Easy—Impact Is Hard

Metrics Are Easy—Impact Is Hard

Metrics are the corporate world’s comfort blanket: soft, familiar, and dangerously good at lulling us to sleep. We count clicks,...

Default Mode Is a Decision—Just Not Yours

Default Mode Is a Decision—Just Not Yours

You ever look up from your desk, your inbox, your endless errands, and think—“Wait, how did I end up here?”...

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