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femke
@femkesvs
Helping designers develop their strategic influence, design lead @gustohq
Vancouver Island, BC 🇨🇦
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    femke
    @femkesvs
    Jul 9, 2020
    Instead of calling them 'users' why not call them what they are? At Uber we call them riders, drivers, eaters, restaurants, couriers... And that language carries on throughout everything - all documentation, design reviews and presentations. They're not users. They're people.
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    femke
    @femkesvs
    Feb 20, 2020
    friends, we just moved the entire company to slack. 38,000 people. help?
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    @femkesvs
    Aug 31, 2020
    Living in Amsterdam for 5 years drilled the value of 'Directness' so hard in to me, that now that i'm living in Canada and working with US based colleagues, my message writing process constantly looks like this:
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    femke
    @femkesvs
    May 7, 2021
    today my PM was out so I stepped up to lead our pod meeting and my lord the mental energy required to lead a meeting with folks across 3 timezones in 3 countries was exhausting - to be "on", engaged and guiding discussions for an hour. How do PMs do this literally all day?!?!
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    femke
    @femkesvs
    Jun 11, 2020
    why is it that's it's totally normal for men my age to be a design manager yet i can't even get a promotion to senior designer
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    femke
    @femkesvs
    Jan 19, 2022
    I've been working on our design system lately and i'm on day 3 of working on headers. JUST headers! Give your design system team a virtual hug cause this stuff is HARD 😂
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    femke
    @femkesvs
    Nov 27, 2022
    that time I applied for a job at discord and made a loom video instead of a cover letter that no one ever watched 🥲
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    @femkesvs
    Mar 13, 2022
    is anyone else just incredibly tired ???
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    @femkesvs
    Feb 15, 2023
    this is the most perplexing UI i've seen in a long time
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    @femkesvs
    Mar 7, 2022
    no I don't want to get on a call
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    femke
    @femkesvs
    Sep 4, 2020
    Earlier this year I decided that after five years, I'd stop doing side things for free. This August I made $2,200 in side project income. You can do it!!! 💪🏽🚀🤗
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    femke
    @femkesvs
    Oct 25, 2021
    For the hundredth time, tools are great but what's more important is your design skills and craft, agnostic of which tool you use. Can we stop adding to the anxiety of early stage designers who get told every week to master a new tool? Use whatever tool you want!
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    femke
    @femkesvs
    Aug 24, 2020
    Companies that only ship to the USA, can you please say this upfront somewhere on your website? The amount of time I've wasted getting to checkout and having to entire my address just to find out you don't ship internationally is painful. Thanks - rest of world
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    femke
    @femkesvs
    Jul 16, 2021
    After 4 years at @DesigningUber, it's time to say goodbye. I learned so much and am thankful to @jelleprins for giving me a chance back in 2017 🙏 I'm SUPER excited to be joining @woodifred and the folks at @Wealthsimple as a Senior Product Designer, starting next week!! ✨🥳🇨🇦