Good Design, Bad UX

This parking sign project popped up in my newsfeed a few times. As a driver…

Are Brands Becoming Irrelevant?

Last Friday, somebody asked me, “what’s your favorite fashion brand?” This question caught me a bit off guard. It’s a perfectly reasonable question, especially since we were at a talk about fashion. And isn’t fashion a world carved out by empires of brands?

The Green State

In 3D printing processes like Stainless Steel and Ceramics, there is a Green State during the production process. During this part, the model is very brittle and fragile. The part needs to be dug out of its powder bed before put into the kiln. Because there is force coming from the air gun, brushes…

Dogfood

Eating your own dog food, also called dogfooding, is a slang term used to reference a scenario…

Perfection is Arrogance

We’ve all worked with these people. Perfectionists. Exacting people who want things done a specific way. Their way. The perfect way.

At least that’s what they hide behind. This idea that they have incredibly high standards, which explains why they are so…

Genuinely Curious

I once sat down at a lunch table with some strangers, and we started chit chatting. It was one of those situations where we…

Am I talking to the right users?

For the past month or so, I’ve been playing around with the idea of developing a CAD add on for Blender. Blender is a free and open source tool for animators and game designers. You can make some very impressive 3D artwork with Blender. Some people even use it for 2D…

Look at what people do

Behavioral vs. hypothetical questions

I was in a discussion about interviewing strategies and the merits of behavioral questions versus hypothetical questions.

Luck is Hard Work

I once asked a successful entrepreneur what was the turning point of her company’s success. After thinking about it for a few…

Ownership → Accessibility

To live in this world, I don’t need more space in my brain. I need more RAM and bandwidth.

The world is shifting from valuing ownership to valuing accessibility.