I’ve just started a new podcast “Recliner Designer”, interviews with designers during a pandemic. The Zoomed out, 7-days-in-the-same-sweatpants stories of designers around the world during Covid-19. This is a passion project of mine. The first few episodes come out this week. …

Customizing the design tool experience to satisfy unmet needs in Japanese unique design processes. Learning how Japanese do UX work In February 2019, Adobe International Design team and Adobe Design Research & Strategy conducted field research in Japan to understand if there were any differences in the ways Japanese designers did UX design work. We did…

It’s truly a rare thing to take on a project that blurs the lines between work, art and service. In the case of our renewal of ThatsNotCool.com that is exactly what happened! The That’s Not Cool campaign originally launch in 2009 by nonprofit organization Futures Without Violence to address the…

Drawing no line between their digital and non-digital lives, all happening in real-time, teens may elude us as they are more private online while at the same time kinder than we may expect. — Our UX design firm iiD is currently creating a mobile app for social teenagers that we believe will be a real category changer. At the moment I can’t say more than it’s for a San Francisco-based non-profit focused on helping teens nurture healthy relationships online. In our user centered design…

Capital One buying Adaptive Path is big news for both clients and UX firms. — In San Francisco, design agencies being acquired by tech companies have become a common story, with clear synergies between tech and design thinking. Remember Facebook acquiring Hot Studio last year? On a more singular note, more recently RISD president John Maeda departed to become the first design partner at VC…