I love side projects. They’re often the first place I get to experiment with new ideas, flex different creative muscles, as well as tinker with new tools and technologies. They also provide another avenue for professional growth, while providing a sometimes much-needed break from other full-time projects. My most recent…

Lessons learned from my time at IBM. — When I joined IBM in 2015, one of the things that excited me the most was the opportunity to see design work done at scale. …

My design director messaged me about a year ago. “There’s a new squad being put together. Sort of a side project for now but it could turn into something big. The goal is to give data scientists a home within Cognos. They’re looking for a designer to help drive the…

Taking a complex task and making it simple — Project brief This is a quick look at one of the more significant projects I tackled as part of my work on IBM Cognos Analytics. Aimed primarily at enterprise clients, Cognos is a data analytics, reporting and visualization tool. We help enterprise clients working with large amounts of data from disparate sources…

Project Brief The work was for a product called Watson Analytics for Social Media (WASM). Like it says on the tin, WASM is a product tailored specifically for social media analysis — pulling in social media content from a number of sources, and surfacing insights around everything from trending topics, to sentiment…

Any UI Design System is built on the three main pillars of Colours, Scales (Size and Spacing), and Typography.

Project Brief Query was a product aimed at the construction industry. Our goal was to provide a software solution that changed how architects, structural engineers, inspectors and other industry professionals certified projects and used regulations. While our product never ended up seeing a commercial release, we eventually decided to release what we…

So late last year I decided to undertake an arduous task most designers are always telling themselves “they’ll do tomorrow” – update my portfolio. And not just update but a total, honest to goodness, from the ground up redesign. After doing a bit of house keeping, defining some of the…

This reflection of sorts started after I first came across the Fast Company article “5 Design Jobs That Won’t Exist in The Future” last year. (Yes… the one from last year… I come from the Neal Stephenson / George R. …