A Product Designer’s Approach to New Year’s Resolutions

Christina Ou
4 min readJun 30, 2019

For the past few years, I’ve gotten into the habit of replacing New Year’s resolutions with more tangible goals because I always felt resolutions were too vague and that’s why we never keep them. Goals, broken down by categories such as ‘bad habits to break’, ‘new things to learn’, and ‘places to travel’ are easier to track and easier to accomplish because they’re specific and tangible. One of the goals I set for 2019 was to write at least one blog post per month. Halfway through the year and I’m still on track to achieving that goal, but as June comes to a…

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Christina Ou

Senior Product Designer @ Apollo.io. Passionate about innovative SaaS product design, cohesive user experiences, and research-driven decision making.