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Stephanie Weeks

“What’s your management style?” is a terrible question

How to reframe that question to get meaningful insights + how to have meaningful answers to give in return

5 min readOct 8, 2021

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Simple ways for a remote (or geo-diverse) team to stay connected

And I’m not talking about virtual happy hours, though we do those too.

5 min readSep 28, 2021

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4 illustrating scenes of employees working in different spaces, all on computers. A person with long pink hair at a home table, a person with short curly hair at a desk, a person with long dark hair in a comfortable chair with laptop in their lap, and a person with short hair and earphones in a lounge chair.

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The UX job interview: more conversation, less recitation

4 tips to shine in the presentation portion of a UX interview — and they are all about connecting with your audience.

4 min readAug 26, 2021

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Cartoon illustration of four happy people each saying hello: Hola, Hi, Ciao, Hej!

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Talk nerdy to me.

Or: the value of investing in yourself and your team to develop expertise beyond “design”

8 min readAug 11, 2021

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Designing with intention: No one cares about your opinion

How to support your team so they design with intention.

8 min readMay 20, 2021

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Illustrated finger pointing to the middle of three drawn faces (frown, meh, happy)

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What’s your problem?

No, seriously. It’s a good question to ask. So good that I made it a part of my design review process.

6 min readMar 2, 2021

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Illustrated character with a ponytail has arms outstretched and a speech bubble with a question mark.

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Gratitude moments (only the tiny ones)

This year I am trying to actively practice gratitude in my life. It indeed requires practice for me. I want to feel the calm that gratitude…

2 min readJul 10, 2017

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Stephanie Weeks

Please stop introducing yourself at work via your boss’s identity

So often I see and hear people introduce themselves as: “… directly reporting to Jane” or “working in Mike’s team.” At some point in a…

2 min readMay 19, 2017

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Please stop introducing yourself at work via your boss’s identity

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Systems Thinking

One element of design that I enjoy is what I call system design. When designers begin to take on responsibilities for a software product…

2 min readOct 7, 2016

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Filling up

I once read a great story about seeing stress for what it is. A man got into an elevator and a stranger greeted him with “Hi, how are…

3 min readSep 26, 2016

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Stephanie Weeks

Stephanie Weeks

UX Leader in B2B (ed-tech, retail, analytics, ecommerce); could never see enough of the world; proud mama; tech leader, designer, strategist, coffee-lover.

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