Writing
Thoughts on product design, design leadership, and building products that people actually use.
2025
- Designing an Invisible Premium Radio Product for People Who Hate Technology Building a plug-and-play streaming radio for tech-averse parents, demonstrating invisible UX design and remote system administration.Hobbies
- Practical Designer Performance Reviews Director of Product Design Craig Dennis shares a practical system for running designer performance reviews with living documents, goal tracking, and AI tools.Leadership
- Give The Difficult Feedback Director of Product Design Craig Dennis explains how to deliver direct, constructive feedback that builds trust and drives team growth in design organizations.Leadership
- You Will Screw Up Design leader Craig Dennis on developing resilience through mistakes: how to own failures, take accountability, and lead recovery efforts with clarity.Leadership
- The Power of Side Quests to Level-up Your Team Design director Craig Dennis explains how to grow senior designers into leaders through strategic side quests that develop soft skills and leadership capabilities.Leadership
- Better Design Outcomes with Figma and AI Director of Product Design Craig Dennis explains how Figma MCP server with AI coding tools improves design-to-development handoff and implementation accuracy.AI
- How to Stand Out as a Senior Product Designer Candidate Director of Product Design Craig Dennis shares what he looks for when hiring senior designers: portfolios, interviews, and how to showcase business impact.Hiring
2020
- Designing and building the official Pexels Figma plugin How I designed and built the official Pexels Figma plugin, now used by thousands of designers. Featured on Product Hunt and Pexels blog.Plugin
- I learned to make Figma plugins in a week How I learned to code Figma plugins in a week, creating two published tools. A case study in rapid prototyping and learning.Plugin