i’ve been performing the role of user experience designer for about five years, but i’ve been a performance artist my entire life. while i’ve primarily used this medium/space to write about (UX) design, i’m desiring some experimentation in iteration and adaption. as i look to recenter with/in my practices as…

Last updated 17 February 2019 — I’m a UX designer. I’m also a design educator, and care deeply about supporting folks who are learning UX design. As a mentor in DesignLab’s UX Research and Strategy and Interaction Design courses, I find that students are often looking for additional tools and resources to amp up their learning…

I recently published a new class on Skillshare called The Art of Asking [Questions]. This is an all-levels class focused on how to better plan, structure, and frame questions within design research. …

I recently attended a conference on health experience design and was turned off by the ways in which several presenters and workshop speakers framed the role of behavioral design to improve health outcomes. Over and over, I heard people say things along the lines of, “we designed a solution to…

on Equity-Centered Community Design within spaces of power and privilege — I am humbled and privileged to have the opportunity to be part of the team at Creative Reaction Lab, an organization that is committed to educating and deploying youth leadership to address issues that disproportionately impact Black and Latinx communities — issues that stem from racism by design. …

I am a user experience designer, researcher, and facilitator of ideas who believes that as designers, we must (1) openly examine our relationship to power, (2) recognize how our relationship to power impacts our relationship to design, and (3) actively challenge the perpetuation of dominant systems of power and privilege…

Some people have asked, “how are content strategy and design thinking similar?” The more important question (or set of questions), though, is, “what is content strategy, how is it related to design thinking, and why does it matter?” Content strategy is the deliberate planning and implementation of what kind of…