The User Experience is a Metric

Goal-setting should be constrained to factors in your control: that is, pursue goals that best prepare that arrow’s trajectory.

The two-week sprint is totally arbitrary. We adopt the convention without really questioning the wisdom, but by such dogma of…

Good design practice is about changing your mind. What does that then say about individual practice, iron wills, and the like?

A design virtue is a demonstrably practical best practice that can be applied at any point in the design process.

Don’t lose your shit.

A fundamentally user-centric vision to motivate an organization’s investment in ResearchOps

There’s this satellite image of the hurricane Dorian that shook me. There are neither grids nor map-markers, no projections, no data.

Ritualize the negative feedback one day each month.

How many times have you humble-brag apologized for not being able to attend a meetup or get to a task because you’re busy? How often do we…

Metric, Episode 70 | Resist the impulse to think the problem is best solved by an app or on the web.

In user-experience driven businesses, it’s the pulse that matters.

By deliberately improving the accessibility of your website, you increase the likelihood of accessibility errors.

Metric, Episode 69 | What questions should UXers ask during job interviews, and what — if any — red flags should they be watching for?

Metric, Episode 68 — Fully transcribed | How do you get the experience you need — or want — to take that next step in your UX career? Our…

Episode 67 | What can regional groundhogs teach about product design?

Episode 66 | We hit the user archetypes known as whales, fish, and barnacles — seagulls, hippos, and the whole persona zoo.

Episode 65 | On game design and play-testing, natural user interfaces, and lessons learned about how games onboard users.

Episode 64 | Tim Broadwater and Michael Schofield expertly tangent between fitness, gamification of health, tabletop games,

The second of 52 meditations on stoicism, design, and development.