Over the last year, I’ve been trying to figure out what’s going to happen to product design as a field. I started my career as a graphic designer, and I loved it. But after a few years, I realized it wasn’t a great path to really build
Refocusing this blog For the last few weeks I've been wondering what to write about. It's not that I have nothing to say, but rather that the things I want to say don't quite match how I want to say them. A recent episode
Like many other designers in the industry, I was mostly self-taught. When I was starting, there wasn't really a field of product design for taking classes. We had to figure it out from others along the way, along with our own musings and trial-and-error. I
Over the last four years I've found a new hobby: basketball. And funnily enough, I don't even playExcept. It's important to have something we care about that isn't motivated by a financial return. Me? I like getting lost; spending time diving into
It might just be that I'm getting old, but I appreciate what I've had to struggle for. Back in community college my brother and I attended a few semesters together. In one English class, a summer condensed course, my first essay came back with a ton
Last week I was working through a challenging design problem. I needed to create a new set of screens for an app. Because of some limits on the hardware used for the app, there's a lot of constraints on how the problem can be approached. The designs are
Last month I bought a new e-reader. I've been following the cycle of new devices over the years, and have been particularly interested in small screens. I have a Kindle Paperwhite—and it's fine. But it's not pocketable, at least not if you
Ask me twenty years ago what I'd be thinking—on almost any given topic, and it's likely that the younger version of me would be surprised by the person who has had 38 cycles around the sun. We shift as we get older, we modify, we
Claude Code is an amazing tool. And with each update it gets better. I've been using it since last summer, when a friend strongly encouraged I give it a try. I'd been a fan of Replit before, but they charge a per usage fee, and the
I've been thinking about seasons lately. It might be a result of a recent Cal Newport episode (great podcast by the way), or just the fact that we're shifting from Winter into Spring here in the northern hemisphere. Life can't just be the same
I was talking to a friend recently about career progression and the challenges I've faced over the last two decades in navigating work and life. So much of what we talk about as a society is related to the effort we're supposed to put in, and
Product design, product management, any roles that touch the digital creation space for app development: all of these are shifting and changing so fast. In the last couple of weeks, I've had numerous conversations with people in and around these jobs. I've met a lot of