Facilitating Design Sprints is tough work. It is a delicate balancing act between keeping the design sprint team's rhythm. to capturing everything in one place, and making sense of everything at the end of the day.

If you follow my blog or podcast you may know that I recently  resigned form a senior UX designer role in a well known consultancy. This has not been easy for me but has been a years work of pondering and considering the action.

Seems not to be the best time to do this with the corona-virus impact on business and people losing their jobs.

We are living in times where we face common problems around the world and need to consistently find better ideas.

Most of the best talent is locked up in markets that have the money and it's just been used for profit, changing the world will need designers perspective to change and unlock real value that changes the world.

The term “on the bench” is widely used by consulting houses in South Africa meaning a full-time consultant who is not working on a project, usually sitting at a client or not working on any project.

Recently I started feeling the pressures of life, nearing the 30-year-old stage and being honest to myself what I really want in life, what my real why is. Am I really doing things that I want to do or I am just trying to make it work? Ami really doing the things that are growing me and moving me forward or am I just chasing the money and what I think will bring happiness???

This is a very commonly asked question on the interwebs as well as by anyone I have ever spoken to about design sprints. What happens after a design sprint is determined by how the validation or invalidation of the prototype went, and what user feedback you got out of the test.

I recently did a podcast on "How to be a Product Designer in South Africa". This has been something I have been meaning to talk about on the podcast and the blog. With all the UX/UI job descriptions I see every day and how they are just glorified graphic design jobs, the question is how do you make out the difference in UX/UI and Product design roles.