→ Linkedin: Measure design impact and stop guessing
We introduce Glare as a practical way to make design decisions with data, and share great posts from others who are also thinking deeply about this.
If you’re trying to improve how you validate ideas, measure outcomes, or connect your work to business results, I’d love to hear how you’re approaching it.
A quick follow-up, now that this has been out in the wild:
You’ll see three different visualizations of the Glare framework in my posts. It wasn’t a design exercise, but more a response to how different people think, and where they tend to get stuck. I’m experimenting with how to communicate the bigger ideas.
The circular map helps when things feel scattered. It shows how the work connects. I’ve used this to pull conversations out of silos and remind folks that design decisions don’t happen in isolation.
The grid brings the real talk. It makes the steps obvious. Whether your team is acting on instinct, signals, or outcomes, you’ll see it here. It’s been useful for spotting where we’re guessing and where we’re anchored. But it’s harder to process.
The diamond is the one I bring to leadership. Four words. Define. Measure. Compare. Lead. It sets the tone without needing a slide deck. Helps move the room from opinion to clarity.
Each version serves a purpose, depending on who you’re working with and what kind of clarity you need. None of them are perfect, but I’m trying to figure out which directions work the best.
Here’s another approach showing the four layers overlapping in cycles. It’s interesting, but suffers from a labels that maybe too abstract to fully get the meaning.
Instead, I tried an approach that focused only on the first two facets of Define and Measure, playing off the ongoing tension created when doing continuous research and design.
Discussion
