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How I Got Into Alt-Cycling and Why You Should Too

Custom bikes is good.

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Confronting the Elephant

A lot of people "in da biz," myself included, are only now beginning to reckon with the damage the past decade has wreaked on our psyches. We've faced upheaval after upheaval, each of which was a blow to some of the fundamental assumptions that were the

Becoming a Hedgehog

What does “marketing yourself” even mean, anyway?

Why User Research Doesn’t Happen

And What You Can Do to Change That

A Gardener’s Guide to DesignOps

I moved into my first house with a yard just before the pandemic, which means that getting deeply into gardening was inevitable. This is…

You company has too many fucking designers.

If you build a product with fewer discrete screens than it has designers, you have too many fucking designers.

All roads lead to DesignOps

When I started working as a designer, I thought my job was Designing The Thing. You know, doing the research, understanding the users…

A user interface is a medium. Design is a practice. Don’t get ’em twisted.

I spent most of my undergraduate education and a good chunk of my graduate education being immersed in the question “What is the essence of…

We need a better name for UX, and that name is “Screllvus”

The debate has been raging for decades now over what to call the practice currently known as “UX.” It’s been called at times (and sometimes…

“UX Developer” IS a Real Job

Just not the job your company wishes it were

De-Signified

Wiping the clown makeup off the world of design.

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The 7 Articles About Enterprise UX It’d Be Great If Someone Would Write, Please

Enterprise UX and consumer UX are very different animals. If this isn’t apparent to you, you’ve probably never worked for an enterprise…

“I Don’t Get It”: A Guide to Tim & Eric for Mem-Mems and Pep-Peps

Note: This was originally written in December 2011 but reposted here for posterity’s sake after letting my old blog slide into oblivion…

Cultivating Empathy: How Working in UX Makes You a Better Person

“What is the craft of UX? What act defines its practice?” is one of the great questions in the world of user experience, possibly The…

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