When we talk about Minimum Viable Product, we often forget to discuss what it means to be viable. […]
Customer Development with Participatory Roadmaps
Designer as Founder Week Five
The big win of the week was an exercise we did together. Students went through the user research […]
For the Nerd People TL;DR
Abstract The paper maintains that in the epistemological shift from postmodernism to pseudo-modernism, technological, economic, social, and cultural […]
Monday Commitments and Friday Wins
Many companies who try OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) fail, and they blame the system. But no system works if […]
Towards a New Information Architecture
Warning: this is part personal history, part personal observations, and as such, it’s riddled with inconsistencies and inaccuracies […]
Designer As Founder Week Four
I return from Amsterdam to my class in varying states of uncertainty. One is already on their first […]
Heuristics for Living
If you don’t know what a heuristic is, it’s a short phrase that reminds you of a body […]
Designer Founder Class Week Three
This week I was off to Amsterdam to present Executioner’s Tale at Interactions 14. The lovely Ms Erin […]
The Executioner’s Tale
A story about a company using OKR’s to help a team focus during a pivot (yes, you may […]
Lean is Listening
I have a lot of conversations with entrepreneurs. In them, I’ll mention something I found confusing or offputting. 99 […]