And How to Avoid These Pitfalls by Democratizing the Power of Design — For most of my career, I’ve worked as a designer at very small companies and startups, ranging from the roughly 40-person team at Light and Motion in the early 2000’s where I designed underwater camera equipment and bike-lights, to a short-lived but highly educational experience at my own 2-person venture-backed…

Leading a design team can be stressful, whether your company already embraces design or you are in the midst of a transformation. Inspiring your team, remaining driven yourself, even finding someone who understands your challenges and triumphs only gets more difficult the higher you climb in your career. …

Last Spring, I was fortunate enough to be a part of the inaugural Design Leadership Camp, which happened in Gateway Canyons, Colorado and was produced by the Bureau of Digital in partnership with InVision. …

Note: this was first posted on InVision’s blog in May 2017 Student and teacher A few weeks ago, in the middle of the scenic Colorado desert in the tiny town of Gateway, I was privileged to be in the company of 30 great design leaders from all over the world, at the…

Product design has been the foundation of my career for the past 17 years, and although I have followed more of a winding, overgrown trail than a neat, linear path, design is the thread that runs through each step of my journey. …

Joe Knoernschild is one of the most interesting, thoughtful, and humble creative entrepreneurs that I’ve had the pleasure to meet. Joe co-founded the surf brands Billabong USA and Hurley; Hurley was acquired by Nike in 2002. …

Neri.works For those of you who have been following along with the 6x6x6 Project (6 side projects in 6 months, each taking 6 hours or less), I’ve been on something of a hiatus for the past year or so. The most compelling reason (well, excuse) for this is that I…

Shower curtains, clocks, and more! — Jacks, Roca Partida, Socorro Islands Once again, it’s been quite some time since I’ve posted a 6x6x6 update (and 6x6x6 has morphed into 6x6x24, or something like that). Anyway, in the time since I wrote about some of my initial projects, Society 6 has come up with some cool new…

An Experiment & A Challenge — (This is the 1st part of a 6 month project I’m working on, originally posted on my personal blog) My wife recently shared an article with me called “10 Reasons Why You Have to Quit Your Job This Year” by James Altucher, a blogger/entrepreneur whose brash and honest style I’ve…