User-fudged experiences

How to design for weird user behavior.Photo by Luísa Schetinger on UnsplashThis article was inspired by a conversation I had with Ryan Warrender on our Podcast Design Huddle. User Fudged Experiences are when users do something unexpected with our products or service, usually in a hacky way. Here are..

My love letter to Adobe Flash

How Flash changed my life and what it has taught me about the future.https://medium.com/media/c961471ebb81d1ab3d20c4460e9f2b48/hrefFor those of us who came of age in the Dot Com Boom of the late ’90s and early 2000s, Flash was one of the most creatively liberating web technologies to ever come along..

Using treemaps to understand hierarchical data

How to make sense of a complex visualization technique Continue reading on UX Collective »

Process-centered design — the key to business applications

If you can’t describe what you are doing as a process, you don’t know what you’re doing . Continue reading on UX Collective »

The 1984 Apple Macintosh — How does it look today?

Nowadays everybody knows MacBook or iMac. But when the first “Mac” was released, and what did it look like? Let’s test it and figure it… Continue reading on UX Collective »

An urgent reckoning with the tech industry’s digital pollution

Photo by PartTime Portraits on UnsplashAfter the uneventful presidential inauguration on Jan 20th, most of us breathed a sigh of relief that democracy had prevailed. It seems like all is right again with the world (or will be) and it’s tempting to forget how the tech industry has contributed to the ..

Affordances and signifiers

Creating designs, components and interactions that make sense to users Continue reading on UX Collective »

How to figure out the scope of your visualizations quickly

Scope your project with eight hats of Data Visualization Design Continue reading on UX Collective »

Thinking in public as a digital product designer

“I’m usually not that negative but this is bad…”— Well-meaning fellow designerIn a matter of minutes, a few more comments popped out mocking my poor writing and lack of actionable information in my article. My mood sank. They are right! I start writing responses to each one, justifying myself like a..

A framework for product design simplicity

How to focus on what matters. Continue reading on UX Collective »