This week I was off to Amsterdam to present Executioner’s Tale at Interactions 14. The lovely Ms Erin […]
Designer Founder Class Week Three
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 […]
The Art of the OKR
Read the updated post, Art of the OKR Redux instead! A lot has changed since 2014…. […]
Designer as Founder: Week Two Class Notes
This week the students presented the insights they gained from talking to users and how the evolved the […]
Living Lean
If I were to explain Lean Startup as briefly as I’m able, I’d say it’s an approach where […]
Designer as Founder: Week One Class Notes
I’ve begun teaching a class at CCA called Designer as Founder. Having made that transition myself, and with […]
2013: The Top Posts
2013 was the year I started writing again, and I have no regrets, except why did I ever […]
27 Thoughts on Product Management
Riding the train this morning, I thought about what it takes to be a Product Manger. I was […]
Use Me, Don’t Abuse Me
My daughter and I are excited to see the second Hobbit movie. We expect to be scared, worried, […]
Mechanics Of Magic: Seven Lessons from Game design
Given November 6th, 2013 Full citations, slides and links
A Booklist to Help You Become Great at User Experience Design
If someone wanted to become great at UX design, what is the ONE book you'd recommend they read, […]
Design for Credibility: A Tweet Talk
I decided to tweet the talk I gave last night here http://www.sanfranolagranola.com/pages/food-summit … so try to imagine it’s […]
A Theory About How to be Happy at Work
A Venn diagram of the three things that make me happy in my work. Perhaps you feel the […]
What the Agency Doesn’t Know
Watch this Webstock ’13: Mike Monteiro – How Designers Destroyed the World from Webstock on Vimeo. I […]
Users don’t hate change. They hate you.
Recently, more than the color of the leaves on the trees has been changing. Everyone seems to be […]
UXKitteh
I like memes. I like kittehs. I like good UX. You see? Iz my life. really. Iz […]
The Dreaded Weekly Status Email
I remember the first time I had to write one of these puppies. I had just been promoted […]
5 Quick Changes That Will Make Meetings Suck Less
Meetings don’t have to be bad. They are where you get together with your crew and figure out […]
Writing Elsewhere on Other Things
I’ve been doing more personal writing lately, and trying out Medium. Some recent essays: You Are Bigger than […]
The Joy Protocol
“Optimize for joy” was the advice my friend gave me when I decided to leave the job that […]
The Most Important Interview Question
My favorite interview of all time happened at an early-stage start-up. The last interviewer of the day sat […]
500 Words of September
When I was researching Advice on Writing from Everybody, it was clear that one of the most valuable […]
Three Dilemmas
Recently three friends have reached out to me. 1) The person I thought my partner was isn’t, according […]
Career Choices
I know a lot of zen stories. I started reading this book in college and I never stopped. […]
How to Stop Procrastinating
Gotta ton of work to “just knock out?” Try these handy tips: Do not listen to the first […]
A Simplified Model for User Experience Design
Yes, I know what you are thinking: why another model for UXD? is Jesse James Garrett’s model of […]
Grading the Damn Thing
Recently I’ve been working with General Assembly to create a new immersive user experience design class: five days […]
Personal OKRS
I am crazy about OKRS (Objectives and Key Results). I have been evangelizing this system of staying on […]
Getting the V right
The Minimum Viable Product is the rule in the start-up community, and like all rules, it’s under attack […]