The big win of the week was an exercise we did together. Students went through the user research […]
Designer as Founder Week Five
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 […]
A Syllabus for User Experience
When I agreed to teach a class on User experience Design at General Assembly, I had a very […]
Find Your North Star
I don’t think there is one of us today that doesn’t know of the north star, and that […]
Design as Mangement
What gets measured, gets managed. –Peter Drucker Companies that identify, measure and manage key customer behaviors are […]
A Mission for Design
I was invited to say a few off-the-cuff words at a design offsite for a Well Established Company […]
Designers Don’t Ask
This is the original article that became “Design Can’t be an Afterthought” on Women 2.0. I’ve left the original title, […]
Words on Wireframes
Design is a Job should be required reading for anyone making a living doing Design. I will write […]
Still one of the best resources for what research to do when
When Gabe and I researched, wrote and designed the Carbon IQ User Centered Design Methods Guide, I felt […]
Tiny Process for Writing
First Draft: say everything quickly. race to the end! Second Draft: replace pronouns with nouns, explain vagaries. Third […]
Where you been at, Wodtke?
I’ve been in a five week culinary program. I’m in week three. Everything is starting to break down… […]
Tell Me a Little Bit About Yourself
Everyone should know how to introduce themselves to a prospect. You can be a designer on an interview, […]
A Language for Design Problems
[T]here are known knowns; there are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns; that is […]
A small manifesto for design
Disclaimer: I have made digital products for over ten years in a variety of roles, from the formal […]
Bruce Lee on how to be a Designer (ok, on how to fight, but watch…)
“I do not teach karate. I do not believe in styles anymore. …Styles tends to not only separate […]