This is Artium

December 5, 2021

The Origin of an Artium Tradition: Artium Pulse

Artium Pulse, Weekly Insights from our CEO Ross Hale

March 17, 2022

Women's History Month: Liz Johnson

This is an opportunity for us to highlight some of the amazing women at Artium and have an open discussion around their career path.

March 11, 2022

Women's History Month: Candace Nevarez

This is an opportunity for us to highlight some of the amazing women at Artium and have an open discussion around their career path.

March 1, 2022

Women's History Month: Heidi Cox

This is an opportunity for us to highlight some of the amazing women at Artium and have an open discussion around their career path.

November 18, 2021

Tyler Holland Spotlight

Our people are core to who we are. With a year spent at Artium comes a brief reflection of the path to craft, successes along the way, and how to continue to learn and grow. Today we sit down with Tyler Holland.

November 3, 2021

Glue vs Airflow

Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA) is your best bet for most greenfield automation projects. However, it requires more work and more knowledge, both upfront and as new features are added.

October 29, 2021

Alex Maher Spotlight

Our people are core to who we are. With a year spent at Artium comes a brief reflection of the path to craft, successes along the way, and how to continue to learn and grow. Today we sit down with Alex Maher.

October 27, 2021

Psychological Safety Part 1: Introduction

Psychological safety is intrinsic to the success of an organization. The model I’m about to introduce addresses the needs of individuals within an organization and the conditions within which to foster them.

October 15, 2021

Aaron Weinberg Spotlight

Our people are core to who we are. With a year spent at Artium comes a brief reflection of the path to craft, successes along the way, and how to continue to learn and grow. Today we sit down with Aaron Weinberg.

September 9, 2021

Josh Mauldin Spotlight

Our people are core to who we are. With a year spent at Artium comes a brief reflection of the path to craft, successes along the way, and how to continue to learn and grow. Today we sit down with Josh Mauldin.

September 3, 2021

Transformation at Human Scale

The following are just a few simple techniques to smooth your approach in managing and directing organizational change and partly explain why sometimes we don’t get through folks’ natural resistance to change or new ideas.

August 27, 2021

Ashley Yancey Spotlight

Our people are core to who we are. With a year spent at Artium comes a brief reflection of the path to craft, successes along the way, and how to continue to learn and grow. Today we sit down with Ashley Yancey.

August 13, 2021

In Conversation: Testing

Erik Luetkehans joins Liam Yafuso to talk about types of testing, why we use them, and when.

August 6, 2021

Kaelin Burns, VP of Product

Our people are core to who we are. With a year spent at Artium comes a brief reflection of the path to craft, successes along the way, and how to continue to learn and grow. Today we sit down with Kaelin Burns.

July 22, 2021

Artium Summer Reading List

Reading is central to our growth as individuals and as a company at Artium. We seek inspiration from other’s ideas and are endlessly fascinated by an author’s ability to challenge our views, affirm and build upon held beliefs, or introduce us to something entirely novel.

July 16, 2021

Best Practices Revisited

For a long time now, the term best practice has been misused in software. At an industry level, best practice has become a catchphrase for “my opinion.” When people say “I have a set of best practices,” what I hear is, “I have strong views about some things.”

July 9, 2021

Pairing and Feedback

A sit down with Liam Yafuso, VP of Engineering here at Artium, discussing his thoughts on pairing, feedback, and strategies to successfully introduce them to your organization.

May 13, 2021

Accessible Design

When we build software, we are creating a place of community regardless of audience or industry. The design of this space should strive to be inclusive and accommodating towards those it serves.

May 7, 2021

The Fundamentals of Artium’s Culture

Our culture feeds our identity, success, and happiness. Just as we take care of our health as individuals, we must consciously fuel our living, breathing ecosystem that is Artium. The following five concepts are the fundamental elements of that fuel.

April 16, 2021

Our Guiding Principles: Design

These principles—and how we apply them—define our approach to design. They hold our work to a standard, inform the tactics we use, and they establish the role our designs play in the community.

April 8, 2021

Artium Quality in Software

The following is a list of attributes I believe most high-quality software has in common. I believe we should build software to this spec and use our default practices to achieve it.

April 7, 2021

Only Two Options?

This story is from Liz Johnson about her journey of becoming a mom and facing a reality in which there are seemingly only two options.

March 25, 2021

Artium Default Practices

To advance the craft of software and build the future we want to live in, I believe we ought to start with 8 criteria and practices.

March 4, 2021

A Night Out in Harlem at Bill's Place

For Black History Month, we opted to head over to Harlem virtually to listen to the smooth blue notes that have defined the Black Gold Jazz standard at Bill’s Place.

February 16, 2021

Artium's Book Club

During quarantine we have recognized how instrumental a company book club has been for not only our professional development, but our personal growth as well.

January 27, 2021

Don't Bring Me a Solution, Bring Me a Problem

The most valuable thing you can do as a PM is to get really good at asking questions that help you better understand your user's "why."

January 20, 2021

2021 Predictions from Artisans

What trends are our fellow Artisans expecting to see in 2021?

January 15, 2021

2021 Predictions from the CEO

What trends can we expect to see in 2021?

January 6, 2021

How the Founder of Patagonia Reinforced My Vision

I recently read Let My People Go Surfing by Yvon Chouinard, the founder and owner of Patagonia.

December 22, 2020

4 Tips on Accessibility for App Designers

And how to convince someone to implement them.

November 5, 2020

Leading Remote Design Sprints (Video)

Shipra Kayan shares her experience and insights from having facilitated over 100 remote workshops and having built and managed distributed UX teams

November 2, 2020

What we look for in a product designer’s portfolio

We discuss the most critical parts of a great portfolio by underscoring the need to show meaningful process work, examples of your collaboration, and how vital holistic thinking is.

November 10, 2020

Customer Interviews: Getting Stakeholders Excited

We find that the best way to get your team onboard with interviews is all about including them in the process and showing them value fast.

October 20, 2020

How to Use Estimates for Software Development

An estimate is a representation of the team’s understanding of the complexity of the work required to accomplish a desired feature. Here's how to calculate for your project.

July 3, 2020

What I’ve learned after 10+ years of Recruiting