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Fire, ready, aim

The race to shoehorn half-baked AI features into enterprise products is a cynical subversion of UX that’s likely to lead to less adoption…

Aug 20

Clone-like silicon valley corporate executives in suits scrambling wildly after a pig, all of them covered in filth and mud.

Aug 20

Pinned

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Is your organization solving the real problem?

Leverage strategic design to understand deeper customer needs and assure you’re building the right solution, not just building the…

May 1

A confident strategic designer wearing a hat that says “stakeholder whisperer,” surrounded by several other hats labeled, “business strategist,” “ethnographer,” storyteller,” “facilitator,” “silo-buster,” “visualizer,” and “systems thinker.”

May 1

Patrick Sharbaugh

23 Degrees of Separation

At the winter solstice, the shallowness of consumer-culture ‘happiness’ pales next to the awe and wonder of deep time

Dec 28, 2023

23 Degrees of Separation

Dec 28, 2023

Patrick Sharbaugh

Together at Last

Return-to-office mandates are deeply unpopular, in part because by themselves they don’t solve any obvious problems. Here’s how to do it…

Sep 16, 2023

Together at Last

Sep 16, 2023

Patrick Sharbaugh

See You at the Office? Part 2

Senior design leaders share their thoughts on how to mitigate the downsides of remote work and make the most of hybrid.

Aug 7, 2023

See You at the Office? Part 2

Aug 7, 2023

Patrick Sharbaugh

See You at the Office?

Senior in-house design leaders consider the pitfalls of managing hybrid teams — and ask hard questions about what an office is actually for

Aug 7, 2023

See You at the Office?

Aug 7, 2023

Patrick Sharbaugh

Poop Scoop

Two online media scandals reveal ugly truths about “citizen journalism” in Singapore

Jun 3, 2014

Poop Scoop

Jun 3, 2014

Patrick Sharbaugh

A Dance With Dragons

Vietnam has had a difficult week with anti-China protests, but the most significant one may be happening on its social networks

May 16, 2014

A Dance With Dragons

May 16, 2014

Patrick Sharbaugh

Rumor Has It

Last week’s backlash against “idle Internet speculation” is a window into East-West cultural differences

Mar 20, 2014

Rumor Has It

Mar 20, 2014

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I. M. H. O.

Make Lulz, Not War

Will meme culture help transform Asia’s authoritarian states on human rights from within?

Nov 25, 2013

Make Lulz, Not War

Nov 25, 2013

Patrick Sharbaugh

Patrick Sharbaugh

International design strategist and educator, avid storyteller, former journalist and ethnographic researcher writing from my lair in Portland, Oregon.

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