PinnedStreamline Grad School with these 8 ToolsMy must-have digital tools for everyday PhD tasks — With the increasing digitization of work, fast-tracked by the COVID-19 pandemic, everything is now done online — including my PhD, which I started in the middle of 2020. I spend most of every day carrying out my research on my computer, so I’ve taken the time to accumulate a set…Education8 min readEducation8 min read
Published in UX Collective·PinnedCan physical product designers work from home?Hardware-dependent teams faced unique challenges when working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic. — Can physical products be designed and developed by teams working together virtually, from home? At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, one-third of the employed American workforce worked from home. Despite this, only 3% of those were from the manufacturing sector. The field of physical product design had not previously…Remote Work13 min readRemote Work13 min read
Published in UX Collective·PinnedHow do product design teams converge on an idea?We now have empirical evidence for the Double-Diamond model. — Is it possible to track, and in the future, guide, a design team's activities by analyzing their digital communication? That was the question I attempted to answer in the first publication of my PhD, with the specific aim of identifying convergence on a design idea. …Product Design12 min readProduct Design12 min read
