Investing in your career — and in your portfolio
Investing in your career — and in your portfolioInterview with Shawn Park about shaping and investing in your career path.Leading with Craftis a limited series of articles where we shed a light on stories of designers with successful careers as individual contributors.
Curating and publishing hundre..
How to create personas based on science that actually work
It is quite difficult, if not almost impossible, to obtain a personality profile of one single individual let alone to create a persona…
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Using design to fight racism
How might we use technology to address racial inequities?
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Accessibility for the d/Deaf and Hard of Hearing community in video games
Getting the industry to listen.Chris (DeafgamersTV) Robinson at a Microsoft Conference in Seattle, WA.My last article looked at accessibility from an industry perspective with interviews from accessibility specialists working in the gaming industry. This included talking to Ian Hamilton who is co-di..
Shinkansen: The bullet train inspired by Kingfishers
Tokaido Shinkansen launched at Tokyo Station, 1964. SourceIn the late ’90s, Japanese engineers modeled the Shinkansen bullet train after Kingfisher birds to solve one of their biggest problems… tunnel sonic booms.
Tokaido Shinkansen is one of the world’s busiest high-speed rail lines. Having moved a..
How to build tech that does things differently
Data ethics principles and processes are useful, but they are often of limited use when it comes to addressing the social and environmental harms of the data economy. This post is about using creative R&D to build data technologies that embed a different set of values from the ground up, balancing e..
The Catch
Attribution: Kenneth AllenIt has now been 4 months and 14 days since my job at IBM dissolved, and on August 18th, I accepted a contract role to become a Principal UX Designer for PayPal, started yesterday (September 14). Big sigh of relief for me.
On Twitter, I noticed a designer (https://twitter.co..
How to lead a team by principles rather than process
Guiding principles of high-performing (UX) teams.
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In defence of the hairy line in drawings and sketches
In drawing, ‘hairy lines’ are generally considered ‘finished’ lines but that have not been resolved in certainty. A result of going back…
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What are your design maxims?
A few things I have learned along the way about design and business that have stood the test of time.My design career — if I can call it that — has now spanned multiple decades. The first thing I created that I would consider a proper design was a seven-inch record for a friend’s band sometime in th..
