A while back I did a smarmy post about AI takin’ r jobs, and decided that since it couldn’t solve a critical UI conundrum–i.e. a meaningful icon to replace the obsolete floppy disk for ‘save’– that I would continue to
A Generated Post to Contrast with the Human Post
As an experiement, I used ChatGPT4.0 to generate a post in 15 seconds to contrast with my human generated post that took 3-4 hours of thought. At the risk of enshittifying the internet to promote model collapse and general content
The Enshittification of Figma
I will admit as a UX designer I have never really been a fan of design tools. They are a means to an end, not an end in itself. I get in and get out, know or learn enough to
Designers Will Be Out Of A Job!!!
TL/DR; No. So this strident post shows up in my LinkedIn feed, and I started my wise ass response.. but then paused and thought two thoughts: 1) don’t be a jerk, and 2) I should try it out before I
Agile is Broken, But UX Saves it Anyway
Let me pause my daily Jira/Agile/Scrum busywork to say a few things about Agile. As it works today, Agile Scrum usually causes more problems than it solves. Sure, the common response (like the ‘Design Thinking Sucks‘ thread) is “you are
Great Resignation, Personal Edition
TLDR: Businesses need to rethink how they deal with exiting employees; remember that ‘at will’ works both ways. So I joined the crowd this September and left my job. I’m now a consultant with Publicis Sapient. There are a bunch
Design Skills for Teams
A while back I posted on UX Core Competencies, visualized through a radar chart, to show potential gaps individually and within a team for upskilling opportunity through practice or training. So that’s old news, what have you done for me
Wicked Problems – Pandemic Edition: Education
If there is one thing we can learn from the pandemic it is that Everything Is Broken.. Public health, health care, education, supply chains, work, justice, democracy, economic inequality…our electric grid. Pandemic didn’t cause these but the crisis exposed problems
A UX Hiring Manager Perspective
A year into pandemic work-from-home, UX Designers can be counted lucky that we have a job that affords that. Though we will be more productive and creative when we can do in-person design sprints, contextual inquiries, interviews and usability tests,
Precedented!!
Sorry, this is only tangentially related to Design, but allow me to digress. I’ll bring it around. If Pandemic Lockdown wasn’t enough, now, in Texas, we have Ice Storm Lockdown with bonus rolling blackouts. If your pandemic hoard is gone,