PinnedWhy Your Design Portfolio is Killing YouFrom the Lens of a UX Lead Problem Statement: How can I improve my portfolio so I can get better job offers? You don’t show enough work. Today’s job market is hot, but that doesn’t mean I’ll forgo quantity over quality — or vice versa. I expect recent college or boot camp grads to have fewer projects…UX6 min readUX6 min read
PinnedWhy Your UX Resume Is Hurting YouFrom the Lens of a UX Lead A lot has changed since I wrote my first LinkedIn article, “8 Resume Tips for Creative Professionals.” While I joke that I’m a professional job seeker, job hunting was always a long and bumpy road for reasons I’ll describe in another article someday. …Design Jobs4 min readDesign Jobs4 min read
Feb 19The Rest Is Digital History | Part 6: Game Over, Continue?A Collection of Stories About How I Got Here — Every time I had to change web hosts was incredibly stressful. Remembering to save all necessary files, passwords, and reinstall scripts never went smoothly. Plus, I had to ask those who ran web rings (remember those?) to update my link and ensure search engines picked up my new URL. As…Springfield College8 min readSpringfield College8 min read
Feb 9The Rest Is Digital History | Part 5: Spirit, Mind, and BodyA Collection of Stories About How I Got Here — Only a few schools had core academic programs in computer graphics or graphic design. Most offered a digital design minor as part of a computer science major, but I knew that I didn’t want to be a programmer. Well-known institutions like the School of Visual Arts and the Rhode Island…College Life5 min readCollege Life5 min read
Feb 9The Rest Is Digital History | Part 4: The Digital Brick RoadA Collection of Stories About How I Got Here — During my senior year of high school, I realized that a web and graphic design career was possible. I took an elective digital art class that introduced me to Adobe Illustrator. …Summer Internships2 min readSummer Internships2 min read
Jan 24The Rest is Digital History | Part 3: An Iron Fist to the JawA Collection of Stories About How I Got Here — Despite its growing popularity, WTCL had stiff competition with Tekken.net, a fan-made site that appeared around 1999 and later became Tekken Zaibatsu after changing hands. I had to work three times harder to keep WTCL up and running because I was a one-man show and hand-coding my updates at best…PlayStation5 min readPlayStation5 min read
Jan 13The Rest is Digital History | Part 2: I’ve Got MailA Collection of Stories About How I Got Here — Windows 95 and America Online were at the forefront of home computing during the mid-90s. AOL’s marketing campaign was relentless. If there wasn’t an installation CD in our mailbox daily, one would fall out of Sunday’s paper. (I hate to imagine how many discs are still buried in landfills.) Everyone…AOL6 min readAOL6 min read
Jan 13The Rest is Digital History | Part 1: Stepping OnlineA Collection of Stories About How I Got Here — I hated the summer camp at White Plains High School. Not only did I feel different from most of the other kids who attended, but I wasn’t into the activities they made us do. I couldn’t care less about basketball and field sports, though I did like weaving lanyards. …90s5 min read90s5 min read
Jan 20, 2022Biggest Misconceptions About Working for a Small Bank’s UX TeamValley is probably a bank you’ve never heard of before. Like so many other financial institutions, the idea of banking — and what it means to be a bank — is changing. As such, associated people, processes, and technologies need to change too. At Valley, we’re building a transformative culture…Ux Jobs5 min readUx Jobs5 min read
Jan 17, 2022Why UX Design Bootcamps Are Not My FriendFrom the Lens of a UX Lead The growing trend is to take a UX boot camp or have UX certificates. I didn’t know they existed until 2015 when I worked with a new team of UX designers who graduated from one of the most popular programs in the city. Yet, most of them didn’t understand the…UX Design6 min readUX Design6 min read
