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
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
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,
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