A designer friend sat across the table from me. I took a sip of my wine, she crunched a pumpkin fry (remember this is California). She said, “I finally found a start-up I like. ” “Yeah? You like them? Want…
Design is a Job should be required reading for anyone making a living doing Design. I will write more on that later. For now, since I have become the lady who complains about wireframes (so not the title I was…
When Gabe and I researched, wrote and designed the Carbon IQ User Centered Design Methods Guide, I felt pretty proud. What surprises me is how often I still refer to it even today, some ten years later. Download Now
This was inspired by an exchange with a friend who is a consultant, and can’t stand the idea of joining a company. It’s not the first time I’ve seen consultant prejudices toward all companies Companies vary. There is small and…
First Draft: say everything quickly. race to the end! Second Draft: replace pronouns with nouns, explain vagaries. Third Draft: omit needless words. and often the first paragraph. Fourth Draft: get the music of the prose right.
I’ve been in a five week culinary program. I’m in week three. Everything is starting to break down… read more: Fish Balls and Finger Condoms
Everyone should know how to introduce themselves to a prospect. You can be a designer on an interview, a start-up CEO on a pitch meeting, or a consultant at a mixer meeting people who could be clients: it doesn’t matter. You need…
[T]here are known knowns; there are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns; that is to say there are things that, we now know we don’t know. But there are also unknown unknowns ie “ there are…
Disclaimer: I have made digital products for over ten years in a variety of roles, from the formal designer role, to product manager to general manager and even long ago, code monkey. So this is my view-point. Yours might be…
“I do not teach karate. I do not believe in styles anymore. …Styles tends to not only separate men because they have their own doctrine which become the gospel truth you cannot change… If you do not have style, if…
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