The 10% Rule

Early in my design career I was contacted by the principal of a prestigious San Francisco design firm to come in and discuss working…

Excellent Latinx Designers, Part Three

This is the third in a three-part series profiling excellent Latinx designers. If you missed…

Excellent Latinx Designers, Part Two

This is the second in a three-part series profiling excellent Latinx designers. If you missed…

Excellent Latinx Designers, Part One

Designers are valued for their creativity. We get paid to be imaginative, original, curious…

On Professor Schoenwald: A Guide to Learning and Living

Graduating with a blank piece of paper.

Tomorrow I’m getting on stage. Two words: Matthew Lew. It’s neatly handwritten with Dr…

Refine Your Design Internship

Advice for studios and startups from design interns.

Let’s play devil’s advocate on: Remembering Everything

“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will…

The glass is definitely half empty. But that does not mean I am pessimistic.

The idea is plain and simple:
The glass is half empty because the glass started out as empty.
But who gets to decide that being empty is bad?

Guys, it's blue. Here are nine other things that look blue (and are blue).

1. Blueberries
2. Blue Bottle Coffee
3. Blue Startup Logos
4. RGB Blue #0000FF
5. Blue Sky