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…
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…
Yes, I know what you are thinking: why another model for UXD? is Jesse James Garrett’s model of perfection not enough? What about Dan Saffer’s model of inclusiveness? And the other five hundred you can get with a simple search…
Recently I’ve been working with General Assembly to create a new immersive user experience design class: five days a week, eight hours a day, eight weeks of user experience. Whew. Much as I enjoy doing impossible things, this one is…
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…
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…
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…
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…
When I agreed to teach a class on User experience Design at General Assembly, I had a very clear idea of what I would teach. And what I would not. I would not teach OMnigraffle or Photoshop. I was tired of classes that purported to teach…
I don’t think there is one of us today that doesn’t know of the north star, and that it will always point north. It’s in movies, cartoons, comics, and books. In a project, the north star is the goal you…
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