Product, Design and UX Research — Following up on my previous product reading suggestions, I have five new recommendations. Notably, I took a break from digital reading — a few of these have illustrations and formats best experienced in physical book format. Orbiting the Giant Hairball: A Corporate Fool’s Guide to Surviving with Grace by Gordon…

Design, Marketing, and Productivity — Like you, I typically read dozens of design and technology articles and listen to several podcasts a week. This year, I decided to catch up on a few books that I’ve always meant to check out (or thought I had!). Here are my top 5: Org Design for Design Orgs…

Suggestions on talking about you and your work. — I was recently invited to attend Portfolio Night for design students at a local college. There were about 24 designers presenting their work on laptops, tablets and printed materials at tables set up like a trade show. The affair was informal — guests wandered through talking with students about their…

A case study on building and launching a consumer AR mobile app — Us: Wouldn’t it be cool if people could post messages around the real world, but virtually? People: You mean like comments? Us: Yea, they could be comments, but also stickers and photos. People: You mean like Snapchat or iMessage? Us: Yea… but this is different, this is using live augmented…