Design at Red Hat

Describe your core responsibilities at Red Hat.

Principal interaction designer working on these projects

Assisted Installer (leading)
Red Hat Developer Hub - Plugins (leading)
Edge device management (in very early stages) - (leading)
Dev sandbox (leading)

How do you get inspired first thing in the morning?

Talking with my daughters (:

Assisted Installer
Make OpenShift installation on-prem experience as easy as possible. An easy step-by-step wizard that hides under the hood all the fancy features and settings for installing OpenShift.

What makes designing at Red Hat unique?

Collaboration, collaboration, collaboration.

How are you incorporating open source principles into your designs or design processes?

Keeping the design process open, transparent, and dynamic.

Nir Farkas

learning as much as you can about the big picture is a superpower

How do you prioritize collaboration across teams in your design process?

I think being aware of what others are working on and learning as much as you can about the big picture is a superpower for any team member and even more for UX/product.

How do you think diverse voices and perspectives make the design process stronger?

As I see it, psychological safety is one of the most important aspects of an open conversation that allows different perspectives to be heard and taken into consideration. As a team, we tend to agree with each other and sometimes we suffer from “tunnel vision” in our design process. I think that diverse voices are super important for addressing this problem and un-blind us to see “outside-of-the-box” solutions

Conversational UI for cluster creation
Today it’s very hard to understand which installation method you should choose for cluster creation. To address this, we ask users up to 5 easy questions and recommend them the best installation method that fits their needs.

How does your design work contribute to the creation of helpful and accessible experiences?

I try to design interfaces and flows that can service everybody, whether they’re novice, intermediate, or master users, no matter if they have any disability. I’m trying to pretend (with partial success (: ) that I don’t have any background knowledge and this helps me identify some weak spots in the flow/design.

What does open design mean to you?

A design process that is transparent, open for feedback, and tries to be data-driven as much as it can be.

Any last thoughts?

Thank you for hearing me out (: