Tag: empathy

Quarterly Rituals: Empathy Challenge

November 28, 2017.Reading time less than 1 minute.

It’s easy to get so focused on your day to day that you forget the bigger picture of the product you work on. We’ve been doing these quarterly challenges with the idea of building empathy for our users. Each time, taking this mindset, I discover things that I wouldn’t have otherwise. I try to choose […]

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Empathy and Mobile Development

April 14, 2016.Reading time 4 minutes.

One of the (many?) things my team may be tired of hearing from me is “empathy is part of our job”. What do I mean by that? Well as mobile developers, we are the closest to the humans that use our product. We need to have empathy for our users – what do they need? […]

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12 Challenging Steps to Being a Better Interviewer

October 7, 2015.Reading time 18 minutes.
Someone in Florida snapped a picture of a raccoon riding a gator at the Ocala National Forest.

Notes from my @TheLeadDev talk on interviewing. Do you follow the discussion about technical interviews? I find it interesting, and worthwhile. I think we kind of tiptoe around two fundamental problems though. 1. Most technical interviewers are bad. 2. We think that technical interviews teach us more than they do. Today we’re going to talk […]

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