MUSINGS

Helping other disciplines understand and embrace the value of UX is far easier when you can do so in their language.

Embracing play in our day-to-day, regardless of our role, can make us more productive and surprisingly happier at work.

Why you should commit to being a mentor, and some tips and techniques for making it easier and beneficial for both sides.

Are you doing what you can to help the next generation of researchers and designers find their way?

Making sure your Cloud-based software tool is still useful when there’s no Cloud isn’t just good design, it’s good business.

Be careful about the emotional baggage you bring with you on the next leg of your career journey.

Archetypes' heavy focus on user behavior makes them more useful than traditional personas to understand your customers' needs and pain-points.

Using Archetypes to understand and empathize with the expectations of your target audience as the the first step to exceeding those expectations.

Musings on why designers and developers should stop calling ourselves hybrids — and my first deep-dive into the exploring and defining the concept of the Multilingual Designer.

A brief list of some of the “don’t ever do this” advice I’ve received from various mentors over the years. 

And if you've made it all the way down here, mazel tov!


I've got a blast from the past for you.  My talk from SIC 2011 is still hiding on Vimeo!


Sadly, much of the context for this talk is missing.  Video and audio coverage were not the greatest day-of, and my original presentation files are lost in the annals of time.


But it's still a nice example of my presentation style, and hopefully it shows how much I genuinely love public speaking!

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