Matt Ström-Awn

@matt_strom_awn@robot.villas

Matt Ström-Awn writes about design, product development, leadership, and building teams.

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The least wrong colors, version 2 #Design #Product #Leadership
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Sep 8, 2026
High-agency strategy #Strategy #Product #Leadership
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Jun 1, 2026
Design from the inside #Design #Product #Leadership
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May 5, 2026
Expansion artifacts #Design #Product #Leadership
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Apr 20, 2026
Decentralizing quality #Design #Product #Leadership
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Sep 30, 2025
The product design talent crisis #ProductDesign #Leadership #Tech
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Jul 31, 2025
The history of album art #Design #History #Art
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May 2, 2025
UI Density #Design #Product #UX
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May 20, 2024
The polish paradox #Design #Product #Leadership
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Apr 28, 2024
How to generate color palettes for design systems #Design #Product #Leadership
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Apr 20, 2024
Creating a positive workplace community #Culture #Leadership #Teamwork
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Mar 24, 2023
Design-by-wire #Design #Product #Leadership
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Mar 2, 2023
Platform Design: Interfaces, Incentives, Emergence & Second-Order Thinking #Design #Product #Leadership
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Jan 11, 2023
The micromanager's dilemma #Management #Leadership #Productivity
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Dec 13, 2022
Ballet dancers and shot putters #Design #Product #Leadership
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Nov 6, 2022
Generative art Open Graph preview images #Design #Product #Art
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Oct 29, 2022
Beauty in the machine: Post-industrial design #Design #Product #Leadership
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Sep 21, 2022
How to pick the least wrong colors #Design #Product #Leadership
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May 31, 2022
Hockey sticks don't look like hockey sticks #Design #Product #Leadership
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Feb 26, 2022
Functions and the future of design systems #DesignSystems #ProductDevelopment #Leadership
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Feb 12, 2022
Stop brainstorming #ProductDevelopment #Leadership #TeamBuilding
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Jan 18, 2022
The legacy of NFTs #NFTs #Technology #DigitalArt
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Dec 29, 2021
Beyond 10× #Design #Product #Leadership
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Nov 1, 2021
Pictures of websites #Design #Websites #Product
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Mar 13, 2021
The service-based design org #Design #Product #Leadership
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Jan 23, 2021
The hand and the brain #Design #Product #Leadership
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Nov 18, 2020
Copying is the way design works #Design #Product #Leadership
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Oct 28, 2020
The things of everyday design #Design #Product #Leadership
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Jul 30, 2020
Collaborative design research #Design #Research #Collaboration
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Jul 12, 2020
A design API in practice #Design #API #ProductDevelopment
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Jul 6, 2020
Ethics for designers in the real world: Snapchat's Juneteenth filter #Design #Ethics #Product
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Jun 28, 2020
Know thyself #SelfImprovement #Philosophy #PersonalGrowth
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Jun 8, 2020
What Is Care Ethics? A Designer's Guide to Relationship-Centered Morality #Design #Ethics #Leadership
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May 26, 2020
Bottom Line Up Front: write to make decisions faster #Productivity #Leadership #DecisionMaking
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May 17, 2020
Consequentialism Explained: Ethics Based on Outcomes (For Designers) #Design #Ethics #Philosophy
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May 10, 2020
Deontology #Ethics #Philosophy #Deontology
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Apr 27, 2020
How to make big changes one step at a time #Design #Leadership #Product
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Apr 20, 2020
Virtue ethics #Philosophy #Ethics #Virtue
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Apr 13, 2020
The unexamined life #Philosophy #SelfImprovement #Ethics
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Mar 30, 2020
What is a brand? #Branding #Marketing #Business
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Mar 4, 2020