S2 Episode 4 - Kevin Tuskey -  Prioritizing the User in UX   Introduction Kevin Tuskey is an award-winning product designer with over 15 years of experience in creating clean and elegant user interfaces. Strategic thinking and problem-solving come naturally to him, making him one of the most promising design leaders in the world. Meet Kevin Tuskey, the Director of Design at SingleStone.   Discussion Points What were those decisions to come into design? And how was your journey? 03:08 I see that there are a lot of changes that are happening, but how much do you think that energy goes into explaining to people what it is? 08:31 Rapid fire questions 17:31 How would you describe your leadership style? 27:02 Design, management, and problem-solving are interconnected. How do you employ the best-suited methods for solving the problem and navigating the challenges that come with it? 29:38 What is your advice to people who are just starting out? 44:17 Show Notes The world defines UX differently based on who you're talking to. 07:11 If you think about what UX is, it is the letter U and the letter X. The letter X is not the first letter of the word experience. 09:22 As the leader of the design team, I'd like to have them kind of grow as fast as possible and expose them to opportunities and not pigeonhole them. 28:51 Creativity has two parts.  It's like throwing a spear into the woods. The first step is to get you started with the spear into the woods. And the second step is to go find the sphere. 37:55 Some people think that's most of the work, most of the rare work by the way, but there's a whole lot of other work to deliver the vision that someone has explained. I think sometimes the people who emphasize one over the other are overlooking the importance of the other part. 38:16 So many of these foundational UI elements are really hard, by the way, very hard to make both beautiful and accessible and simple to build. Many of the frameworks that are household names, at least if you're a developer, are not terrifically accessible, there's a lot of blue. 41:23 We just call Sugar . And you can if you want to try it out, and we just listen to the origin story of how it actually works. 41:50 And we're looking for contributors because there are so many UI components that you kind of need in a sophisticated design system. We would love to have collaborators help us build those components. 43:14 Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. 46:24   Contact LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevintuskey/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/kevintuskey Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kctuskey/ Company website: https://www.singlestoneconsulting.com/blog/author/ktuskey Email : [email protected] Portfolio/ website: https://www.kevintuskey.com/   #uiux #creativity #userexperience #uxdesign #uxresearch #userexperiencejourney #podcastfordevelopers #teammanagement #leadership #uxbseason2