Thoughts

Design process at inKind

April 8, 2016

Refining the design process at inKind. Or: Why did you choose the path of a designer if you’re not enjoying what…

Designing Office Propaganda

March 24, 2016

When I hear something said worth capturing, or read something foundational, I’m capturing it into a poster to stare back at us.

Agile Design for 18F Development Challenge

August 6, 2015

18F is an government contracting agency that acts more like a tech start-up than a traditional government agency. They introduced a short…

Giant Conf Day 1 Take-Aways: Skillsets of a designer and Designing for Experience and Memory

June 16, 2015

Recapping a couple of things that stuck with me from the 1st day of the Giant UX Conference. While there’s was a lot of…

Agile Design: Crafting a User Experience Collaboratively

May 27, 2015

The collaboration between a front-end developer and talented designer is how amazing user experiences get built and refined. Our team does…

User Experience: the barrier-to-entry for better healthcare software

March 6, 2015

As a design team, we have unknowingly become an expert in designing the user experience for healthcare software. Intended or not, many of our projects focus…

Always be creating value – Or my evolving role as design director in a start-up.

November 19, 2014

I have the best, and scariest, job in the world. When I’m doing my job right, everyone else is busy and I…

Nothing good gets designed in a day

November 7, 2014

Working quickly is a part of life. Juggling multiple projects & requests from within our company, we often have to respond…

Re-thinking app design

September 24, 2014

Our design team was recently called to re-think the design of our mobile Stre.am app. It’s grown quickly – so before committing more code,…

Successful software starts with a Design Assessment

September 10, 2014

Lack of a cohesive product design is the quickest killer of a software project. If you have an idea, you need a design assessment…