A little over a year ago I joined Facebook as a Product Manager. I work with the Pages, Location, and Events teams…
Over the years, I’ve seen designers get discouraged because they worked hard to create a better-designed competitor to an incumbent’s product, and yet failed to get traction. The result can be the demoralizing, erroneous conclusion that design doesn’t matter.
Contemporary brain science is unequivocal. Individuals who feel connected to their work and connected to…
Over a year ago Chris (my cofounder) and I embarked upon the murky waters of the…
Great products don't spring from great designers like Athena from the skull of Zeus; instead, they were usually the result of a lot of trial and error, missteps and blind alleys, and hard work and deep thinking. There's no secret sauce. Great designers aren't those with the most natural talent, or…
When the White House opened its Flickr account in 2009, photographer Pete Souza hoped to capture both the public and the private sides of the American presidency. For Souza, it was aunique opportunity to get inside the otherwise closed doors to the Oval Office…
Last night, I heard NBC’s Brian Williams in a fireside chat with Jonathan Tisch at New York’s 92Y. I had heard Williams speak twice in the past at similar events, focused on politics and journalism, but this one felt different. Since he and Tisch are acquaintances and are…
