Donna Spencer

Principal Product Designer at MakerX. Interested in design methods, teaching design and working with a great team on interesting products.

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design process

Working backwards

A video blog about starting at the end and planning (or writing) towards the beginning. Transcript(this isn't the video transcript, it's the script I worked from, so might be slightly different, but better!) Today’s blog post is all about planning, and specifically about working backwards. And I decided

user research

How people research a company for a new role

We asked people how they researched a role at a new company. Learn how they do it and what matters to them.

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makersmake

Weeknotes 24 Jan 2022

Weeknotes from Donna for week 9 with MakerX; just wait until you see the shocking twist :)

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design process

The power of anonymity in online workshops

Anonymous participation in a series of client workshops brought much better engagement than I expected. I explain why I think it might have happened.