Design together with engagement paths — Silicon Valley works to make products as quickly as possible so that the market can decide. Capitalism is the constraint that provides feedback as to whether a solution is viable. In this technology positivist approach towards product design, technology is at the center. …

Can technology help us decide what’s for dinner? — Like many San Francisco based millennials, I was invited to try a week of free meal kits via a local venture-subsidized meal startup. My friend had been using the service successfully for the past month to simplify meal planning when her boyfriend decided to crash at her tiny studio apartment…

Creating a website for Columbia’s new Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute — Columbia University’s Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute is a grand experiment. Home to some of the most brilliant scientists of our time, the mission of the Institute is to decipher the brain — a staggering effort that requires intense collaboration across many disciplines. To enable that collaboration, the…

In 1988 Paul Maritz, a manager at Microsoft, wrote an email to Brian Valentine, a test manager, with the subject line: “Eating our own Dogfood.” Microsoft was working on a new operating system for networking systems. Maritz thought using their own product for Microsoft’s internal network needs would help push…

Create style guides that provoke action — Shortly after college I used to moonlight as a consultant for various user interface design projects. Once when I explained my side gig as a consultant to a friend, he asked if I was helping to organize closets. “Consultant” is a pretty general title and is often associated with high…

I’ve been feeling a mix of nostalgia and disgust after following all that’s been happening at MIT. …

In this article, you’ll learn how to share the website you made from scratch with the world. I want to share a website. A great way to share a static website is to deploy the source files to a server where it will be hosted at a URL that you…

At Pivotal Labs, we define our success in terms of working software and client enablement. This transforms the typical role of a product designer because we don’t throw polished deliverables over the wall to developers or clients. …

In this article, you’ll learn how to create a website with behavior and animation. You’ll also learn how to setup a local server so that you can view your interactive site in the browser on your machine. I want to make a website. Great! Websites are a great way to…