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The AirPods will be able to provide a simpler translation process for people who are speaking different languages, though the process will rely on the Translate app on the iPhone. If an English speaker with AirPods is talking to someone who is speaking Spanish, the  iPhone  will detect the audio,

Why stumble when you can look it up? It’s not simply the extraordinary efficiency of this sort that makes it important. It also represents a different expectation of how the world works. There’s no place to go look up what to do with that insight, so we’ll

Every great creative I have talked to, and have been studying, from Lennon and McCartney to Jony Ive to Virgil Abloh has needed some time and space to just “try some shit.” To discover, to explore…to see what works. Whatever you’re working on right now, is there enough

Over the last few weeks I’ve been trying something new. My design lead, Chris, challenged me to fully adopt auto layout in Figma. We’re both product designers. If there’s a spectrum of designer types, he leans more on the user interface (UI) side of things, and I

Perhaps the most time I personally spend on email is staring at lingering emails. I bet I average about 5 of them at any given time. Emails that are just sitting there and I know they need some kind of action or response, I just can’t get it done

A chat app. A phone. An email. A meeting. That is my social network. I’m taking a pause from nearly all forms of social network. But I haven’t stopped socializing. In fact it feels like I’m using digital communication technology more than ever over recent months, but

As a followup to the details and bigger picture of product design, I often think about the future of the field. With the advancements of AI, and the squeezing of purses in hiring, I wonder where this area of design will go. The role may be just fine. Or it

Product design is a rewarding and incredibly challenging role. It shifts, evolves, and requires learning new tactics and technologies on a regular basis. With the mass layoffs of the post pandemic tech world, and the purse tightening of startups and companies in general, this field is feeling immense stretching as

I’ve been podcasting for 8 years on and off. Not as long as some of my heroes in the space, but long enough to have gotten the feel for it. The taste gap is still there. But I know when I’m happy with the output and contents of

Six years ago I took a nasty tumble on a bicycle. Thankfully I only had a mild concussion. So my brain is mostly, probably, ok. But another issue I’ve dealt with since is chronic neck pain. I work at a computer all day, so I’m not doing my