Years ago, before I changed my profession towards design, I sold classified advertising for newspapers. It was the nineties, so we all typed each ad into ancient localized computer terminals. Occasionally we would do this while the person buying the ad was there, since where I worked people were charged…

I studied photography when I was in college. The dirty smelly analog kind, the kind when you’re in a darkroom for hours on sunny days developing film and then printing the same image over and over, dodging and burning with homemade cardboard tools until the smell of those chemicals made…

Do I regret going into the UX field 13 years ago? Absolutely not, but I have considered leaving multiple times. I don’t know anyone who hasn’t thought about quitting who has done it for as long as I have. That all said, there are some things that I wish I…

I think about user experience every time I get off an airplane. Every single time the fasten seat belt sign shuts off, anarchy always ensues. The guy in the back of the plane shoves his way forward, someone insists on moving forward to get their bags, and none of this…

I would take a bet that when a designer first started as a designer that they would have thought, even for just a little bit, that design as a profession would be “future proof”. …

In UX Design, one of the most misunderstood things has to be discovery. The word “discovery” alone means different things to different people. For a designer, it may mean competitive analysis and contextual interviews. For a product owner, that could mean requirements gathering. For a manager, it often means something…

I’ve been a UX designer for over 13 years, and even though I have been doing this for a long time, I never have tired of learning new techniques. For me, to be a UX designer is always to be learning. When I was first exposed to object-oriented UX, or…

I have been a UX-er for a long time, but this in no way means that I will stop my own personal learning process. I wrote for the first time last year about things I had learned in the previous year. …

I understand why UX people don’t want to use “UX” and “Agile” in the same sentence. I get it; it’s hard to quantify UX work in blocks of 2-week sprints, and you can’t put UX in a box and all of that. I know some UX people are still offended…