Reminder: if you love these blog posts, buy my essay collection. Keep me writing! I went a little […]
I’d like to be a better visual designer. Assume I’m ~ new. Can you recommend an overall approach or strategy?
Time Travel by Book
A twitter conversation prompted me to look up a booklist I kept in 2001. Kinda awesome. Via […]
Workshop Design
I hear and I forget, I see and I remember, I do and I understand. ~ Confucius, 450 […]
Places Make Us
My Keynote from Midwest UX is available. it is about how, as we make places, places make us […]
The Sunday Report
This week has mostly been about writing. I’m revising my book, and I needed a way to make […]
The Sunday Report
I’m going to try something new here, and round-up the cool stuff I found each week while doing […]
The Extra-Chunky Internet
When I first read Malcolm Gladwell’s Ketchup Conundrum in 2004, I knew it was important to the work […]
Never Take The Package Deal
If you have met Richard Saul Wurman, you have a Richard Saul Wurman story. Even 37 signals’s Jason […]
Learning from MySpace
Originally published in The Journal of Information Architecture The joy of the city is its diversity. A great city […]
Resources for Drawing Ideas
A few months back, I started a journey. As a painter, I was confident in my ability to […]
Dave Gray Makes a Concept Model
I am currently obsessed with how people diagram and make concept models. I asked Dave Gray, who is […]
101 Theses on the Design of Digital Things
101 disordered theses on design. Originally tweeted and numbering 95, it has been edited for clarity as well […]
Customer Development with Participatory Roadmaps
When we talk about Minimum Viable Product, we often forget to discuss what it means to be viable. […]
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 […]
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 […]
Designer Founder Class Week Three
This week I was off to Amsterdam to present Executioner’s Tale at Interactions 14. The lovely Ms Erin […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Farming and Knitting
I don’t get Farmville either. Like you, I tried it out and found it painfully boring. I liked […]