Published inShopify UX·Jul 5, 2022Deeper design for next-level productsUsing audits, workshops, and feedback sessions to design better products by thinking deeply — As a designer, solving problems is part of your job. The typical product designer is tasked with crafting solutions for product opportunities and user challenges. Creating two-dimensional work that represents a single point of view is straightforward. …Design8 min readDesign8 min read
Feb 9, 2022Design Is Who You AreIn life, there are jobs, careers, and callings. If you’re reading this, you’ve likely experienced at least one of these. A job is simply that: a means to an end. …Design4 min readDesign4 min read
Published inBootcamp·Jan 4, 2022The Compassionate YearWhat’s the role of compassion in our work? Whether you identify as a product designer, user researcher, product person, or engineer, compassion can be an overlooked attribute. It is not mentioned in product job descriptions or interviews. It’s a quality more often associated with those in healthcare and human services…Compassion3 min readCompassion3 min read
May 6, 201921st Century Humans: Thinking about ThinkingThe currency of the future is not Bitcoin or Apple Dollars or any other future form of virtual money. The currency is something less defined and mutable — ideas. The ability to generate ideas in prodigious quantity is the mark of a twenty-first century human. “Ideas are the currency of…Ideas2 min readIdeas2 min read
May 12, 2018Adventures in Self Driving Cars, Part IIEvery time we enter a vehicle, we acknowledge that there are certain risks associated with humans piloting a metallic machine at a high speed. Wouldn’t it be safer to have a robot car to manage the driving process? Recent press has called attention to the fact that autonomous cars are…Self Driving Cars4 min readSelf Driving Cars4 min read
Aug 21, 2016101 Lessons in the Business of DesignOne day in the middle of the aughts, I walked into a design firm for an interview… and emerged with my first job. Over the last decade, I’ve experienced untold dramas over everyday projects, and in an effort to document my insights, I’ve distilled them into a series of principles…Productivity4 min readProductivity4 min read
Dec 23, 2015Adventures in Self Driving Cars, Part IWe envision the hands-free robot car as a machine that will drive us to a better life. In the not so distant future, we’ll be able to relax during tedious commutes or read as we run errands around town. …Self Driving Cars2 min readSelf Driving Cars2 min read
Oct 27, 2015Life on a TimerIn the shuffle known as the “work day,” it’s easy to lose sight of key objectives when the hours are sliced into meetings, messages and emails, and that random but timely question. — Coping methods for managing the office cavalcade include organizing tasks via Trello, Todoist, or the humble priority list. …Productivity2 min readProductivity2 min read
Published inCommunication Innovation·Aug 30, 2015Design Is Problem Solving“Good design” is a descriptive phrase that appears throughout design history. But how should “good design” be defined? I prefer the Dieter Rams definition: “Good design is as little design as possible.” In a time when content and marketing appear side-by-side on screen, and animated banner ads vie for clicks…Design2 min readDesign2 min read
Aug 19, 2015Product and Process:the Future of UI Design — Do we need new things to look at on our screens? Visual design, the demi-god of the arts, will beseech you with how an interface looks and feels. Friendly, soft, cool, bold — all these attributes can be conveyed through interface design. …Design2 min readDesign2 min read
