Scipio's Villa and the Product Over Time
Listen now (6 min) | I am resting at the country-house which once belonged to Scipio Africanus himself; and I write to you after doing reverence to his…
| Dec 9 | 1 |
It’s December 1st, 2019 - the first day of the last month of — let’s be real — an objectively tumultuous year. I wrote in Metric about “The Temporal Mi…
| Dec 1 | 1 |
Remember that the neuroticism endemic our design world — deadline-griping stakeholders, micromanagers, complaining users — and the problems that shake …
| Oct 30 | 4 |
Don't aim at success. The more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; i…
| Oct 28 | 5 |
The Ol' College Try is the Goal
Listen now (2 min) | We idolize a project that is complete in design work. We don’t organize portfolios around failed experiments, incomplete products,…
| Oct 14 | 3 |
Adhering to design principles under pressure
Listen now (3 min) | When I meet with teams I’m sometimes asked to catch folks up on the progress of various feature requests in the system. I work pre…
| Oct 10 | 3 |
Fear of Missing Out
Listen now (4 min) | Design is a performance of smart people among smart people where it’s easy to conflate merit with your in/ability to solve the kin…
| Oct 9 | 2 |
This week I read The Brain’s Way of Healing: Remarkable Discoveries and Recoveries from the Frontiers of Neuroplasticity by Norman Doidge (Goodreads), …
| Oct 1 | 3 |
The adaptable will
Listen now (2 min) | One of the first a-ha moments many of us have who are interested in user experience design is that whole maxim that “you are not y…
| Sep 19 | 2 |
Klosterman's Razor
Listen now (1 min) | By recommendation on twitter I’m reading But What If We’re Wrong? Thinking About The Present As If It Were The Past by Chuck Klost…
| Sep 17 | 3 |