Writings & Links

LinkedIn Profile

https://www.linkedin.com/in/vladmalik

Selected Themes

Lean/Pragmatic Design Systems

Collaboration Over Hand-Offs (Also see this on PM/Design overlap)

Top Lessons from 5 Years as Founding Designer of Relay

Shipping On Time and Time-Boxing also this

Is Design a Team Sport? – on cross-functional partnership building

Featured LinkedIn Posts on Product/Design

Dealing With Conflict

On “Simplicity” and also this

Worklife balance

Collaboration and Brainstorming

Jobs to Be Done

On Christopher Alexander’s theory of design patterns

Getting Started With Jobs to Be Done Pt. 1 (LinkedIn)

Getting Practical with Jobs to Be Done (Pt. 2: Examples) (Medium)

My Daughter Asked for Pricey iPad App, and Jobs Theory Explains Why I Enthusiastically Said Yes (LinkedIn)

Father Hires “Parking Father Away”  to spend time with his son

Demand vs Supply Side also this

Importance of Trade-Offs

Paying attention to words… The word “just

Interaction Design

Using Trial-and-Error in Creative Workflows — 5 Interaction Patterns

A/B Testing Tools I Created

My Reverse A/B Test Calculator – based on statistical library I created

My A/A Test Simulator – to help people understand the impact of chance

General

What is Linguistics? – humorous video I shot, a tour of various subdisciplines of linguistics

How long can you hold your breath? – tips for breath-hold diving

How deep can you go? – on the impact of water pressure on the body