UX

Technically Wrong

Technically Wrong by Sara Wachter-Boettcher is a book that mentions the elephant in the over-crowded design room: Ideas and products that are technically (ethically, morally) wrong. Reading through all of these kept my attention heightened throughout, as you see the examples of poor UX she…

Google Trip-ing

Last Friday, our Thesis class went on a field trip to the Google offices in San Francisco…

Ideate With Crazy 8’s

Going to the Google Design office had been on my calendar for about a month and it was coming up this coming Friday. It was time to make plans to head to Silicon Valley, so I started making arrangements. As I was arranging things, I realized this meeting wasn’t in the South Bay it was in…

Product Sprints at Google

Thesis Process Continues!

As I narrow down on what I want to do for my thesis, I decided to do my topic on security. I started to get very…

Further thoughts on direction

Committing this much time to something is pretty daunting. At some point you just have to put down the…

Senior Thesis Topic Ideas

Senior year is finally here! It’s that time of the year when seniors have to select a thesis topic that they’re…

To those new to design

It seems you have chosen design for a career. At this point, I probably cannot dissuade you from the horrible decision you have made, given you’ve thrown gobs of time and/or money (more than likely both) at this idea with the hope that you too can become The Next Great Designer. I think…

You Can’t Work on Just Anything

As we enter Thesis (and/or the workplace), let me share a insight from my Creative Founder class. Thesis is a one year project. Work is about 2–5 years these days. Creative Founder is one semester: 15 weeks. Every year someone in Creative Founder says, “Hey, I’m a designer…