Help Teach the Next Generation of UX Designers

Practicing Designers in San Francisco and the Bay Area: On Monday, June 24th, I will begin teaching the first half of an 8-week User Experience Design Immersive (UXDi) at General Assembly. The course will be co-taught by me for the first…

How to Stop Procrastinating

Gotta ton of work to “just knock out?” Try these handy tips: Do not listen to the first recording of Allen Ginsberg reading Howl because then you’ll realize you are wasting your life on this project and need to go…

Personal OKRS

I am crazy about OKRS (objectives and Key Results). I have been evangelizing this system of staying on track toward  your product goals to every start-up I work with, and the results are always impressive. Even when incompletely implemented, they still create the…

V for Victory!

The Minimum Viable Product is the rule in the start-up community, and like all rules, it’s under attack by that same community. Are you shocked? This is the community that lives to destroy any status quo as soon as it’s…

My students and me.

As I’ve written before, instead of resolutions I usually pick a subject and spend the year studying it. Last year, feeling a bit tossed about by the winds of fate, I decided the thing I didn’t understand well enough was…

Farming and Knitting

I don’t get Farmville either.  Like you, I tried it out and found it painfully boring. I liked Cityville a lot. I didn’t know why, but I enjoyed coming back, collecting rent, and using it to add a library or…