Specializing Fast: The Generalist's Edge
Stepping into a brand-new project is a recurring challenge for any generalist, and the speed at which you bridge the gap between confusion and contribution is what ultimately defines your impact.
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What Pull Requests Reveal About Your Team
Pull requests do more than improve code quality. They expose how a team shares context, distributes ownership, and makes decisions. By looking at patterns in PR size, review participation, and response time, teams can better understand their dynamics and values in practice.
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Small Figma Habits That Make Big UX Impacts
Great UX isn’t only the result of big research projects or major redesigns. It’s often shaped by the small habits designers practice every day.
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Developing a Typography Boilerplate
Building a boilerplate that focuses on typography is an easy way to style the majority of a website or application’s content with relatively little effort, leading to a better final product.
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Elevating The Human
AI doesn’t have to replace human collaboration—it can amplify it. We use AI strategically to bring more voices into problem-solving conversations. The goal isn’t efficiency alone; it’s using AI to give teams more time and confidence for the work only humans can do.
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How Coding Can Improve Design
I learned enough code to know it wasn’t my path, but it still changed how I design. At Sparkbox, having a team with a wide range of skills has always been a strength, both for our work and for our clients.
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The Problem with “Ready for Dev”
Our tooling gets better every day, but by changing our mindset about how development and design can collaborate and contribute to each other’s work, we’ll deliver a better product to our users.
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Making AI Policies Usable
Crafting policies isn’t exactly the most exciting part of our jobs, but when it comes to using AI responsibly, having a solid, thoughtful policy in place is essential. The real challenge? Knowing when you’ve said enough… and when you need to provide more detail.
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A Look at Digital Carbon Ratings
Our daily work as digital professionals has a measurable impact on the environment. Understanding digital carbon ratings can help you make your site more sustainable.
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The Accidental Design System
We never set out to build a design system for NCSBN. It started as a simple pattern library for a single website, nothing more. But over time, it took on a life of its own, growing and evolving until, before we knew it, we had something that resembled the beginnings of a design system.
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Want to talk about how we can work together?
Katie Jennings
Vice President of Business Development