Jun 29Speaking at LA Design Festival ‘23Design for the People After a pandemic-driven hiatus, LA Design Festival returned for the first time in few years for its 2023 program themed “Design for the People.” As summarized via the event website: Social, technological, environmental, political, and economic shifts are changing the way our future will look at lightning speeds. Design is…UX3 min readUX3 min read
Oct 29, 2022Keynoting St. Louis Design Week ‘22A couple weeks ago on October 15th I had the opportunity to deliver the closing keynote for St. Louis Design Week. …UX3 min readUX3 min read
Published inBootcamp·Apr 13, 2022Speaking at the Leading Design Conference, New York ‘22A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to speak at the Leading Design conference in New York—my first in-person talk since last August’s UXPA International opening keynote (and only the second one, period, over the past two pandemic years). Held at the Florence Gould Hall in Manhattan, this LeadingDesignConf…UX4 min readUX4 min read
Sep 30, 2021A Conference Like None Other, in a Time Like None OtherMusings on UXPA International 2021, Traveling Again After 17 Months, and Presenting an In-person Keynote in the Midst of a Pandemic On the speaking front, it’s been a busy last year and a half — the dry erase-scrawled line items on my home office whiteboard tell the tale. 100% of those engagements, as you might imagine, happened virtually: behind a webcam and the warm glow of my MacBook Pro’s screen. Often…UX8 min readUX8 min read
Published inCreative Culture·Feb 27, 2020Creative CultureHuman-Centered Interaction, Design, & Inspiration — In 2015 I had enough. After nearly a dozen consecutive years in agency design leadership — and being privy (personally and second hand) to so many of the negative dynamics associated with that world — I wrote an article for A List Apart called “Resetting Agency Culture.” The impetus for…UX6 min readUX6 min read
Published inCreative Culture·Dec 26, 2019On sleep depravation, poop, podcasts, and designThe moment I first heard that piercing newborn shriek this past March, I knew I was in for a ride; another ride, to be accurate. In a flash, my second child’s birth brought back all the hallmarks of baby life that were still lingering at the periphery from my first…UX6 min readUX6 min read
Published inCreative Culture·Nov 12, 2018MidwestUX 2018: Opening KeynoteI was invited to give the opening keynote at this year’s MidwestUX conference in Chicago, which was held last month. My talk, “Creative Culture: Human-Centered Interaction, Design, & Inspiration,” revolved around the…UX3 min readUX3 min read
Published inCreative Culture·Jun 29, 2018Cultivating a Creative Culture Turns 1 🎂It’s rather surreal; it seems like just yesterday the book’s launch party was on the horizon, and now here we are: the 1-year anniversary of Cultivating a Creative Culture. What began 3 years ago with an A List Apart article has evolved into something so much more inclusive. The past…Design7 min readDesign7 min read
Published inCreative Culture·Apr 13, 2018Design Day 2018 — Rethink / RefreshOn Friday, March 23rd I was invited to speak and run a workshop in Stockholm at international agency Futurice’s “Design Day”. Under the banner of “Rethink / Refresh”, Futurice flew in all designers from their 6 offices — Helsinki, Tampere, London, Berlin, Munich, and Stockholm — for a day of inspiration, collaboration, recalibration. The event was conceived around the following mindset: The meaning of design in digital services has long ago…Design5 min readDesign5 min read
Published inUsers and Experience·Mar 19, 2018When Tragedy & Opportunity Run ParallelA week ago today, early in the evening, I left work to pick up my son from daycare. …Design5 min readDesign5 min read
