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The personal website of Matt Ström-Awn

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Posts

The product design talent crisis

The history of album art

UI Density

The polish paradox

How to generate color palettes for design systems

Creating a positive workplace community

Design-by-wire

What it means to design a platform

The micromanager's dilemma

Ballet dancers and shot putters

Generative art Open Graph preview images

Beauty in the machine: Post-industrial design

How to pick the least wrong colors

Hockey sticks don't look like hockey sticks

Functions and the future of design systems

Stop brainstorming

The legacy of NFTs

Beyond 10×

Pictures of websites

The service-based design org

The hand and the brain

Copying is the way design works

The things of everyday design

Collaborative design research

A design API in practice

Ethics for designers in the real world: Snapchat’s Juneteenth filter

Know thyself

Care ethics

Bottom Line Up Front: write to make decisions faster

Consequentialism

Deontology

How to make big changes one step at a time

Virtue ethics

The unexamined life

What is a brand?

A brief guide to design feedback

Engagement is an antimetric

Breaking looms

People alignment vs. purpose alignment

The paradox at the heart of A/B testing

All the books I read in 2019

Product thinking is a lifeline for struggling design systems

Design APIs: the evolution of design systems

Making an audio waveform visualizer with vanilla java script

Design and machine learning

Learning how to see

Intuition vs. data

What google search shows us about the future of product design

Using Netlify to build an email sign-up widget

The management strategy that saved Apollo 11

The Role of Doubt in Design

Delight comes last

The inevitable same-ification of the internet

Responsive roadmaps

The slippery slope of in product messaging

Switching to variable fonts

Compounding design, expiring design

Optimize for learning

How to take your team's creative pulse

All the books I read in 2018

Inclusive design on the Tokyo subway

How to have more inclusive meetings

Who are design systems for?

The design system you already have

We'll fix it later

Just-in-time design

Research, empathy, simplicity, speed

Designing with code

The 1-hour design principles workshop

My management philosophy

Agile & anxiety

Crystal ball 1-on-1s

Really bad design exercises

Flight crews don't decide where to fly

Why the web will win

My favorite job interview question

Changing all the fonts on WSJ.com

What makes a good design principle?

How to get the best design feedback from your team

Making WSJ.com more accessible

Design better data tables

Datum ipsum

Tiny data visualizations

Mind the gap: designing graphs with missing data

Goldilocks your graphs

Well-designed interfaces look boring

Towards better creative feedback

Asymmetrical symmetry

Make it 'til you make it

Better problem solving: unask the question

Taking credit for success

What happens when things go wrong

Practice makes perfect

Be curious

Working to work

A website to call my own