“We’ll use AI responsibly.” Have you heard a statement like this from leadership or a colleague? Maybe you haven’t even experienced those hollow words and were dismissed or ignored when trying to raise this topic. Worse, maybe you work for an AI company and know sufficient guardrails aren’t being built in? Last Month, An AI-Related […]
Good design is iterative. Yes, I made a blanket statement, and yes, I am standing by it. What do I mean? Iterative design builds better products through repeated cycles of prototyping, testing, and refining based on feedback. The success of a design is also contextual, based on the current end-users, their problems they need help […]
I started building these principles in 2018. That’s not a brag, it’s a confession. Because if it took six years to get them right, I clearly didn’t have them right the first time. Version 1 launched in October 2020. Twelve principles, each described in a single sentence. Things like “the system should invite diversity of […]
5 Down, 17 to Go: My March Product Madness I’m challenging myself to ship 22 MVPs this March—one every weekday—fueled by my love for TTRPGs, design systems, and rapid prototyping. While I do allow myself to work on some of them for multiple days, at least two a week I am trying to start and […]
Design hand-off I used to do a lot of freelance/consulting work. I had a system down for negotiating contracts, aligning on final agreements, and ensuring clients understood what they were receiving and what to do with it next. I took several years off from that type of work, but lately I’ve been re-exploring it, starting […]
Recently, during a group product discussion, several folks asked me to elaborate on how I approach retrospectives and reflection. What they didn’t expect was that part of what has led to a pretty successful career is less about my professional nature than about how I approach reflection and self-improvement in general. No matter the walk […]
Lately, as I’ve been giving or forming new industry talks, continuing to coach folks, and interviewing at various orgs, I’ve been chatting with UX and Product Designers across the board: individual contributors, leads, heads of design. The whole gamut! There’s a pattern emerging. Common struggles I keep hearing: Do not fret. The vast majority of […]
Lunch Grim Accoutrements The following are horror illustrations made for the tabletop role-playing game (TTRPG) supplement, Grim Accoutrements. I used two different styles of simplified digital ink drawings and a black-and-white collage for the speed and aesthetics they produced. This book is about adding dark […]