Wrestling with (personal) brand and identity
Not to get all existential here, but I’ve been thinking a lot lately about who I am.I’m a designer. I work with an awesome team and make awesome things with awesome clients. I spend tons of time, both...
View ArticleWe design our own social experiences.
Hey, guess what. Social networking and media is a hot topic. What? You already knew that? Well shit…So maybe it’s not big news. But the rate at which new apps and services built around social...
View ArticleThe Curse of Continuous Concepting
Over the years, as both an internal designer and a consultant, I’ve observed design teams struggle with eliminating potential solutions to the problem they’re trying to solve and focusing their energy...
View ArticleSuggestions for writing a good conference presentation
I feel very lucky to have started a new phase of my career over the past year and a half as a public speaker. It’s the realization of a goal I set for myself a few years ago. And while it’s not the...
View ArticleI don’t believe in UX Design.
For a while now I’ve held the belief that UX Design doesn’t really exist, or more to the point shouldn’t. I’ve shared this belief a few times and gotten less than friendly reactions, so I’ve been...
View ArticleThe Dardenne brothers: a great example of Experience Design at work
In my last post, I talked a bit about Experience Design. My goal with that post wasn’t to say that we should swap the term “User Experience Design” for “Experience Design”. To me, as they’re practiced,...
View ArticleWant to learn about Design Studio in Vegas? Sure you do!
I’m very excited to be hosting a pre-conference tutorial on Design Studio as part of this year’s annual UPA conference in Las Vegas.Those that know me, know that two of my biggest areas of interest in...
View ArticleHi Adam! My name is Julia Sloan and I work as a UX Designer at Motivate...
Hi Julia, thanks so much for the invite. Unfortunately, I won’t actually be at the conference other than the day of my workshop. My budget just can’t handle it at this point. Also, I’m really flattered...
View ArticleIA Summit 2012 Video: Discussing Design - The Art of Critique
At this year’s IA Summit my fellow Mad*Powian, Jamie Thomson, was kind enough to record the talk that I gave with Aaron Irizarry. If you were at IAS but didn’t see us, now’s your chance. If you weren’t...
View ArticleJoin me this Thursday for a Virtual Seminar with UIE
This Thursday I’ll be presenting an extended version of Discussing Design: The Art of Critique as part of UIE’s Virtual Seminar series.I’m outrageously honored to be doing this. Those of you familiar...
View ArticleLearning to be awesome
Awesomeness is important.I’ve been thinking a lot about who I choose to spend my time with, consider as friends, and why I do. I can’t pinpoint it other than the fact that I consider them all to be...
View ArticleDesigners are individuals.
Ask a designer what the best solution for a particular problem is and you’re likely to hear everyone’s favorite answer: it depends.And it’s true. It’s not that they can’t come up with an answer. It’s...
View ArticleDiscussing Design: New all natural, super nutritious, concentrated blog formula.
About a year and a half ago, after ranting to Whitney Hess for probably the 12th time about the state of “feedback” in the design community and the lack of critique. She finally told me to STFU and...
View ArticleRemembering a friend and what he taught me.
Just over two years ago, on August 16th Mike Wilkey passed away due to cancer. Mike was a UX Designer at Fallon Community Health Plan here in Massachusetts. I knew him very briefly, but he had a...
View ArticleGood content requires good design. Good design requires good content. Never...
Good content requires good design. Good design requires good content. Never believe anyone who tells you they have one without having done any of the other.
View Articleife is a story (some more entertaining than others). If you want to design...
ife is a story (some more entertaining than others). If you want to design things that people use, rely on, trust, enjoy, appreciate, love, then you need to, not just know but, be able to describe how...
View ArticleFilmmaking and Design: More than just analogous
I miss filmmaking. It’s no secret. Nearly anyone who gives me an opening to talk about it in a conversation ends up with an earful. I miss it so much, that right now I’m putting together plans for two...
View ArticleThe Two Purposes of Sketching
Over the past few years “sketching” has become an often talked about activity in the web/ux design space. I don’t think there’s a question as to whether or not sketching is a valuable exercise. But I...
View ArticleGood Collaboration Requires Continued Communication
In order to maintain a collaborative spirit and culture in your team members it’s important to remain in communication with them even after their tasks are done or their roles and responsibilities lead...
View ArticleIf you aren’t at least considering people’s emotions, you...
If you aren’t at least considering people’s emotions, you probably aren’t designing for an experience.
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