10 Timeframes

A commencement speech about user experience

From the May 12, 2012 closing keynote at the 2012 MFA Interaction Design Festival, a full-day event held to celebrate the work of the 2012 graduating class of the Interaction Design MFA program at the…

Inside Yelp’s New Business Page

Sweating the Details

The future of technology is human- the currency conversation

When did design become a job?

I recently went to the Design Museum after putting it off for almost a year since I’ve moved to London (a post on that later). Full confession I usually don’t like museums, they are too sterile and devoid of context for me put that along with the fact that the museum is across…

Bad things, good things

Week 41–42

Marketing!
Getting traction for Coastermatic has always been a challenge. It turns out that when you make something, people don’t automatically flock to it. Over the past year, I’ve tried all kinds of things: social media, blogging, speaking…

Productivity boost

Weeks 38–40

September ended up being a month of settling in and getting organized. After a summer of being all over the place, it was no surprise that many of my project management systems were in crazy disarray.