Introducing Break into Freelance Design

August 23, 2023

I'm so excited to share that today I launched my course Break Into Freelance Design. It’s a course that teaches designers the fundamentals of freelancing so...

Goodbye Design Smarts

March 1, 2023

Hello everyone, I've been sick for the last couple weeks so I haven't made the attempt to write anything. But I have a few updates for you. First, I launched...

Who's your competition?

February 8, 2023

"Who's your competition?" When I ask clients this question, they always list companies who are solving the problem the same way they are. What they often...

Dopamine fasting and my first income update

February 1, 2023

The last couple weeks I’ve been on a dopamine fast. The idea was an act of desperation. Despite making a public announcement that I would spend my energy...

Solve the boring problems

January 11, 2023

Are there products or features you're leaving on the table because they're not interesting? I once consulted with a startup to design their first product....

Unintended negative UX

December 28, 2022

Every design decision has tradeoffs. Sometimes we don't know what those tradeoffs are until we face the unintended consequences of those decisions. I was...

Failure to plan

December 21, 2022

Last week I said I would share about my strategy to not plan. So it's ironic that the last 24 hours my wife and I have been stressing out about how we were...

The next chapter...

December 14, 2022

You got this email because at some point you gave me (Josh Wayne) your email on designsmarts.co. I've moved my newsletter to Substack and named it "Uncommon...