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,
Future of Remote Design Work
Early on in the pandemic lockdown there was a general business panic on how we’re going to move workers remote, especially the tech infrastructure-heavy tasks of call centers and IT hosting. When it turned out to be doable, there was
Music for Shut-ins
For about 20 years I was a Freeform American Roots DJ on a college/community radio station in San Antonio. The show was Third Coast Music Network, which started as “Joe X By God Horn’s World Famous Texas Music Show” Sunday nights
Management by Zooming Around
MBWA is no more. How do you manage a remote team? So we’ve had our first full quarter of COVID remote work; enough for the ‘hey let’s do remote work all the time’ chatter to die down, as isolation, loneliness,
Migrated to a new host
Finally (after 13 years with tcmnradio.com!) moving off Startlogic to A2Hosting, at less than third of the cost. The move was a pain in the ass…Wordpress is very finicky with settings, and themes that break the whole site and you
UX Design is Killing People
Yes, clickbait title, but let me explain. Thanks to Roger for pointing out the Boeing 737Max/MCAS testimony. Yes, the MCAS worked perfectly fine by itself–it did not fail. The 737 Max system as a whole failed, and 346 people died. The
The Scientific Method is Bullshit, and Y’all Suck
TLDR: Not really. And No, you’re not. (You are all fine people.) It’s become fashionable to bash Design Thinking, maybe more so last year but it takes me a while to get around to articles like this one. Actually I
2019: The Year of Design Backlash
When it just seemed people were finally figuring out what Design means, we get the backlash. I had drafted a post responding to Design Thinking bashing (like this and this), and now Maeda reheats his annual report (if you can make it
Design Thinking for Democracy
I recently came across a click-baity blog post about how poor UX is the root of poor democracy. OK, yet another wide-eyed designer opines how design can solve the world’s problems. And yet another article that does our profession a disservice
What’s So Wrong with Waterfall?
I’ve had experience with a bunch of different development methodologies in my career, starting with military acquisition–the problems of which (e.g. the $600 hammer stories) led to many changes in project management (e.g. PMBOK), lean processes, the agile manifesto etc.