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Designing Meaning Instead of Polishing Addiction: 9 Paths to Visionary Design

Big-tech scaled prison communications — you whisper into plastic while you touch only cold glass, smudged with the greasy fingerprints of…

Jan 8, 2022

Designing Meaning Instead of Polishing Addiction: 9 Paths to Visionary Design

Jan 8, 2022

Joel David Johnson

The Rise of The Pet Parent: 7 Paths to Design for the $110 Billion Pet Market.

You’re not ready to have kids — but you want them. So you adopt a cat, drop off your gametes in cold storage, and wait for your fertility…

Jan 5, 2022

The Rise of The Pet Parent: 7 Paths to Design for the $110 Billion Pet Market.

Jan 5, 2022

Joel David Johnson

Bad incentives: 7 ways to avoid getting trafficked in Pittsburgh’s mentee trade

Pittsburgh’s Problem

Dec 29, 2021

Bad incentives: 7 ways to avoid getting trafficked in Pittsburgh’s mentee trade

Dec 29, 2021

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3 lessons from Amazon to design entirely new products that sell

You’ve designed a wholly delightful, altogether new, and even beautiful product that wants to be used. You know that as soon as a customer…

Dec 16, 2021

3 lessons from Amazon to design entirely new products that sell

Dec 16, 2021

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5 Methods For Avoiding The Crowdfunding Paradox

As a new designer, I earned 1.2 million dollars in 40 days on Kickstarter with BoXZY. But, the same design features that made BoXZY liftoff…

Dec 6, 2021

Joel Johnson (Me) sitting between 2 BoXZYs in the BoXZY Factory, a host of small projects built on BoXZY just in front of him, like 3D printed chess pieces, CNC carved metal wallet, and a laser engraved clock.

Dec 6, 2021

Joel David Johnson

Toxic Champion

Your human resources team avoids hiring them, and if one of these disagreeable creatures gets past them, they never entirely integrate with…

Dec 4, 2021

Toxic Champion

Dec 4, 2021

Joel David Johnson

Joel David Johnson

I am scrappy, unexpected, not-quite educated—and I’ve designed products used by NASA, Audi, Google, and many other companies and people across 60+ nations.

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