Stoic Designer

Bite-sized frequent episodes, Stoic Designer is about applying the practice of stoicism to your design work as a means to benchmark the day, get your head right, and craft virtuously.

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Practice really hearing

Practice really hearing

Listen now | Getting inside of our users' heads provides context and evidence for the choices we make about what's actually in our control: the service…

Jan 20, 2020 •

Michael Schofield

Scipio's Villa and the Product Over Time

I am resting at the country-house which once belonged to Scipio Africanus himself; and I write to you after doing reverence to his spirit and to an…

Dec 9, 2019 •

Michael Schofield

It's Halloween 🦇 The Veil is Thin

Back in April I introduced Venerating the Grave UX (medium), which is about regularly “ritualizing” negative feedback. The idea is that periodically you…

Oct 31, 2019 •

Michael Schofield

The Ol' College Try is the Goal

We idolize a project that is complete in design work. We don’t organize portfolios around failed experiments, incomplete products, the good ol’ college…

Oct 14, 2019 •

Michael Schofield

Adhering to design principles under pressure

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 pretty hard to make sure…

Oct 10, 2019 •

Michael Schofield

Fear of Missing Out

Design is a performance of smart people among smart people where it’s easy to conflate merit with your in/ability to solve the kind of algorithm you’ll…

Oct 9, 2019 •

Michael Schofield

The adaptable will

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 your user.” At the time…

Sep 19, 2019 •

Michael Schofield

Klosterman's Razor

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 Klosterman who talks about…

Sep 17, 2019 •

Michael Schofield