PinnedThe Product Manager’s New Best Friend: Exploring the Product Pitch CanvasIf you’ve ever felt like product planning is a bit like herding cats, you’re not alone. I’ve spent countless hours playing the never-ending game of ‘Guess the Requirements’ in my product development process. My engineering team was constantly asking me, “Where is the Product Requirement Document?” and “What are the…Product Management4 min readProduct Management4 min read
Oct 6, 2022Lessons for Founders from the perspective of the First EmployeeBefore diving into these lessons, I’ll give a quick recap of the background and how I got here. I was finishing up Lambda School’s web dev program. I had been coding for a couple of years, but I did the program to round out my knowledge. I was specifically looking…4 min read4 min read
Jan 31, 2020Time Stall— Virtual Reality User Experience TeardownThis story is part of a series where I tear down the onboarding and overall user experience of Virtual Reality games and experiences. I do this primarily for fun, but also because I want designers and developers to build truly immersive experiences, and I hope these breakdowns help. I use…Oculus13 min readOculus13 min read
Jan 10, 2020Why AltspaceVR will FAIL— Virtual Reality User Experience TeardownThis story is part of a series where I tear down the onboarding and overall user experience of Virtual Reality games and experiences. I do this because I want designers and developers to build truly immersive experiences, and I hope these tear downs help. I use my fundamental design questions…Virtual Reality17 min readVirtual Reality17 min read
Dec 22, 2019Gravity Sketch — Virtual Reality User Experience BreakdownThis story is part of a series where I break down the onboarding and overall user experience of Virtual Reality games and experiences. I do this primarily for fun, but also because I want designers and developers to build truly immersive experiences, and I hope these breakdowns help. I use…Virtual Reality9 min readVirtual Reality9 min read
Dec 18, 2019Member-onlySkyworld: Kingdom Brawl — Virtual Reality User Experience TeardownThis story is a part of a series where I break down the onboarding and overall user experience of Virtual Reality games, apps, and experiences. I do this primarily for fun, but also because I want designers and developers to build truly immersive experiences, and I hope these breakdowns help. …Virtual Reality11 min readVirtual Reality11 min read
Dec 16, 2019Crisis VRigade — Virtual Reality User Experience BreakdownThis story is part of a series where I break down the onboarding and overall user experience of Virtual Reality games and experiences. I do this primarily for fun, but also because I want designers and developers to build truly immersive experiences, and I hope these breakdowns help. I use…Virtual Reality8 min readVirtual Reality8 min read
Dec 6, 2019Fundamental Design Questions for Virtual Reality ExperiencesIf you’ve experienced Virtual Reality, then you know that VR is a very different domain than any other medium that we’ve created before. Because of that, the design principles for designing websites, console games, mobile applications, or anything else we’ve created before just doesn’t cut it. If you’re going to…Virtual Reality5 min readVirtual Reality5 min read
Nov 1, 2019The Next Computing Platform“The Internet is to Information as VR is to Experience” — Me (or whoever said it first) Yes. The next computing platform is Virtual Reality. That was said by Mark Zuckerberg, but the everyday person doesn’t resonate with computing platforms. “VR is going to be the next Human Platform” —…Virtual Reality11 min readVirtual Reality11 min read
Jun 20, 2019How to play AnnihilationA game of skill, luck, and strategic arbitrage created for shits and giggles Annihilation is a card, dice, poker chips game created by Leon Coe, Kendall Ludlow, and myself. Best for 3 players, can played with 2. 4 players plays like teams. Backstory While at H-E-B (a grocery store here in…Board Games7 min readBoard Games7 min read
