Published inUX CollectiveTowards an assumptions canvas, for more equitable and less problematic productsUnexamined assumptions rarely turn out well. At best, your product/app/service will stumble, from which you can recover but at a cost. At…Sep 16, 20202281Sep 16, 20202281
Published inGENTech Companies Are Getting Free Work Out of Job Applicants“Design challenges” are a privilege no one should have to affordOct 19, 20183.4K20Oct 19, 20183.4K20
My Bullshit Web StoryOn how small indifferences that affect all of us are, by definition, bullshitAug 2, 20181891Aug 2, 20181891
A Few Things I’ve Learned About Other People’s LossAs of writing this, all my family and my friends are fine, as far as I know. But family of my friends and friends of my family are all…Jun 23, 201619Jun 23, 201619
Save the Middle Class, Kill the Fourth Estate: Jaron Lanier, Good Intentions, and How to End…Jaron Lanier’s “Who Owns the Future?” is a book-length thought experiment on how to restructure the very basis of the internet in order to…Apr 12, 201627Apr 12, 201627
Five Design Videos to Watch Instead of a Yule LogSlow work week? Avoiding the family? Need a recharge of your motivation? Here are five talks to which you could give five listens.Dec 21, 2015181Dec 21, 2015181
A Guide to Meditation for Morons (Like Me)If there’s a Venn diagram mapping content from Harvard Business Review, JAMA , and Yoga Journal, the intersection is probably quite small…Aug 11, 201510Aug 11, 201510
LOOK I MADE A USABILITY TESTIf you ever run into a boss or a startup founder who tells you they don’t have time or resources for “research”, gently point out that the…Jul 28, 2015Jul 28, 2015
Wireframing: In Praise of ListsWireframing is sexy, right? The word is on almost every UX job listing, and conjures up images of carefully curated hip clothes, chunky…Jul 14, 2015Jul 14, 2015
Published inDesigner HangoutShady PatternsThe company wants you to share. You don’t want to. When a UX design choice drives the company agenda over the user’s agenda.Dec 19, 201443Dec 19, 201443
Empathy and Design: A RoadmapKnowing why you do good can help you do more goodNov 30, 201438Nov 30, 201438
Down and Out in Online ReviewingPulling back the curtain of how they save money while trying to separate you from yoursJul 5, 20143Jul 5, 20143
How Startup Founders Can Be Like Iraq WarhawksAnd a happy 4th of July to you, too. Jul 4, 20149Jul 4, 20149
Is the Design World Becoming a Broken Gift Economy?16 design challenges and what do you get? Another week older and deeper in debt.Sep 26, 20136Sep 26, 20136
To the News, You Are Not a Product, but You Have BeenHow the newspaper may be complicit in the creation of “your personal info as a product”Sep 23, 2013Sep 23, 2013
Published inDesigner HangoutThe “Yes Session”What we can learn about brainstorming from Looney TunesSep 23, 2013171Sep 23, 2013171