One of the things I love about living in the DC area is that you never know if the boring office building you pass by every day is the site of something that in a few years will be historically monumental. For example, in 1988 some monkeys escaped from a…

I remember the first time I got laid off. I was in my early thirties and I was starting to get the gray hairs that I knew were on their way to taking over my head. At the time, I thought I could get by putting expenses on credit cards…

Not even five months before I was laid off, I had the good fortune to be in Paris for the third time in two years. I had always wanted to see Paris when I was younger, but I did not go for the first time until I was forty-six. Up…

I could recognize what was happening, in the way my boss changed his tone with me the last couple of days. I could feel it in the way I was driving out of my neighborhood to work and all of a sudden I realized that I forgot the glasses that…

One thing that I have noticed during the pandemic is how challenging it is to be a creative person and maintain a daily creative practice. With one’s health and livelihood in a constant state of chaos, being a creative person can easily get knocked down in one’s personal hierarchy of…

I was looking back at the past year and it occurred to me that it was a year of big changes for me in the things that I did on a daily basis. I did larger things like change jobs and reconfigured my home office so that it was more…

Before refrigeration, interstate travel, and canned foods were common in American households, there was a time when lobster was considered a food only served to poor people. There were even prison protests over serving too much lobster to prisoners. …

While working as a User Experience designer, one would assume that a well-established company would be among the least likely to change. The fact is that the most opportunity a UX designer can get to be a voice for change is often within older, larger, established companies. Think about it…

I have seen plenty of articles on breaking in to the UX field and lessons learned in the first year or so of being a UXer, but not many that describe what happens further on in one’s career, or the transformation from practitioner to a mentor or manager role. Being…