I am fortunate to be working with skilled designers, designers who love collaborating, are great at what they do, and most importantly, designers who know how to lead. Recently, I have been thinking a lot about how ambiguity affects design. Specifically, how designers are often expected to come up with magical solutions to amorphous problems.

Writing a design brief is tricky business. You do not want the brief to be so specific that you are effectively reduced to a computer executing a piece of code. …

A lot of design is just thinking through the several edge cases a product would be subjected to. As a designer, your responsibility does not end at defining the vision of the product. You need to think about, talk through and visualize all the ways a user might use the product.

Of course, you cannot account for every single edge case. There will be some things you fail to account for and it will result in a slightly negative user experience. As a designer, you need to constantly comb your product to discover these unaddressed problems.

For example, Sumo Logic…

I have been working in the industry for almost 3 years and I have a Master’s degree in HCI. It’s surprising that I still think about what skills make for a good interaction designer. Some of my friends are interaction designers, I read articles by interaction designers, I work with designers. I think I have a vague idea of what skills make for a good interaction designer.

This is an evolving list. I’ll keep adding it as I become more aware of what I do every day.

Overview I think Interaction Design is not as craft heavy as some other…

I have figured out a routine again that would enable me to write content consistently. I had a solid routine but fell out of it because that’s just what happens sometimes. This time, I plan for the routine to stick longer.

I have decided to start posting my articles on Medium as well. I don’t promote my Wordpress blog through my social network. I don’t really make an effort to get it out there. With Medium, I feel like I’m taking my blog to a blog playground where everybody gets their own blog and plays with other people’s blogs. …

There is a dearth of prototyping tools for web based products. A new prototyping tool emerges in the market every day, but most of these tools are focused on mobile prototyping. I understand why these prototyping tools focus on mobile apps. Mobile is still a relatively new medium and everybody is still figuring out the best way to work with it. By focusing their prototyping tools on mobile apps, software developers are trying to corner a developing market.

Axure is an un-sexy product. The interface looks like it’s from the late 90s. It feels bulky and bloated to use. There…