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,
Management by Zooming Around
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
Does Digital Matter?
Article on Technology Stagnation from MIT Technology Review caught my eye, on further read it confirms a lot of fears re: What are we really making, and Why? The article summarizes a new book The Rise and Fall of American
Apple UX Pioneers on How Apple is Destroying Design
This isn’t the first usability critique of Apple from Don Norman, but now it’s Tog helping out. Which is significant, since Bruce Tognazzini founded the Apple Human Interface Group as Apple employee #66. Norman was User Experience Architect and VP of the
Fun with Job Postings
I love the calls from spec recruiters, when I can understand their speech. (BTW, No, I do not want a 6 month contract in Bentonville AR — I get that one every week.) I had to laugh at this posting
The Other Unicorn
There are two unicorns in UX. Or maybe one Two-nicorn. We all know and love the discussions about the interaction+visual design+front-end coder. As I’m looking for new work, I’m coming across a number of position descriptions for Product Manager with requirements
Looking for New Opportunities
I changed my tagline… don’t worry, I’m still a full-stack UX professional.. Working for a company 80% dependent on the price of oil, I should expect cyclical downturns and restructuring. Thanks fracking and OPEC! But anyway, my organization didn’t really get
Top 7 Dangers of Amateur UX
Amateur UX can lead to half-assed UX. And these common mistakes: 1. Tend to copy designs inappropriately – mostly out of context. A radial menu for a touchscreen loses the benefit when it’s on a mouse & keyboard interface. What works
What the Hell is a Full-Stack UX Designer?
I just changed my tagline today from ‘UX Professional’ to ‘Full-Stack UX Professional’. Partly because I haven’t done any new posts in a while; partly because of job application rejections thank you’s with the vague ‘not what my client was looking