Short essays and videos on product design, research and design leadership.https://erikphanson.com/https://erikphanson.com/writing/2-minute-product-design-principles-video-series/https://erikphanson.com/writing/2-minute-product-design-principles-video-series/As part of a push to get more of my profile out in front of all the wonderful people of LinkedIn, I had the bright idea to create a series of 1 to 2 minute…Sat, 11 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://erikphanson.com/writing/i-let-ai-make-a-podcast-about-my-career/https://erikphanson.com/writing/i-let-ai-make-a-podcast-about-my-career/I decided to run a quick experiment the other day about how AI might help coach me in self promotion. The goal wasn’t to create some amazing podcast just…Thu, 31 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://erikphanson.com/writing/ux-has-always-been-about-business-value/https://erikphanson.com/writing/ux-has-always-been-about-business-value/When leadership says designers don’t understand business, what they’re really saying is they haven’t bothered to learn what design actually does. Here’s…Sat, 15 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://erikphanson.com/writing/because-theyre-new/https://erikphanson.com/writing/because-theyre-new/Bringing someone new into the organization is so helpful for all the obvious reasons of why you were hiring the position in the first place, but there is a…Mon, 22 Jul 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://erikphanson.com/writing/when-good-is-the-enemy-of-done/https://erikphanson.com/writing/when-good-is-the-enemy-of-done/I think the actual saying is, “Perfection is the enemy of good.” For me, for now, on this rework of my personal site and getting this blog up and running,…Tue, 30 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://erikphanson.com/writing/real-web-designers-design/https://erikphanson.com/writing/real-web-designers-design/From the archive of this site in 2013, the age old argument of designers learning to code – here we go. Front end engineering today feels almost…Sun, 28 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://erikphanson.com/writing/skills-designers-need-today-still/https://erikphanson.com/writing/skills-designers-need-today-still/I originally wrote and posted this back in 2013. It’s funny to me that I call out Photoshop and Fireworks then, which you can easily replace with Figma…Sun, 28 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://erikphanson.com/writing/the-abcs-of-design/https://erikphanson.com/writing/the-abcs-of-design/Another from the 2013 archive, design is an active profession, design is verb. I still believe you always need to be creating. Here’s the original 2013…Sun, 28 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://erikphanson.com/writing/the-business-of-ux/https://erikphanson.com/writing/the-business-of-ux/Another from the archive, this time about roles and leadership. My thoughts here haven’t changed much and it seems like other people today feel some of the…Sun, 28 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMT