
I wish someone told me early on that there is no such thing as “the right design process”. Every project is unique and requires its own set of tools and processes that needs to continually evolve. Don’t think that you are “doing it wrong” because you never ran THAT Workshop that THAT Author talked about at THAT Conference. If your work continues to improve the human condition and you have fun doing it, you’re on the right track.
Our perception is the User Interface. Our emotions are the User Experience (UX). In all that we create, learn, experience, and share, we create this UX, using the OS to do so. Boiled to its most elemental, our only occupation as humans — at home, at work, at play, in public, in solitude, or abroad — is to create the best UX possible for ourselves and for others. It is our moral, professional, and personal obligation.
…nauguration. Optimism took on a new definition for me: an internal decision with an outward action. You don’t have to feel optimistic to act from a place of optimism. I learned how to put on shoes again while crying the entire time. I am never, ever in the mood to c…