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I recently went to a client meeting “unsupervised” and was astounded at the amount of anxiety I felt. While I’ve gone to many a customer meeting, this was my first time not [...]

I created this for Dan Boyarski, one of my amazing professors I had a chance to take a class in my time at Carnegie Mellon University. Dan is officially retiring this year (he’s been doing [...]

In my recent work, I’ve been thinking about what it means to be a product designer. Of course, I have to provide Wikipedia’s definition first: Product design as a verb is to create a [...]

At the end of last year (2015), I made a personal promise to myself to dwell in the happy moments. As a designer who is paid to be critical at work, I could see the criticality seeping into my [...]

A friend once wrote a little bit about how he goes home every 4 to 6 weeks to see his parents and feel grounded. I had a chance to do that recently, but in a different context. I traveled to [...]

It’s been a year with lots of ups and downs and ins and outs. I started a new job, moved to a new place, and spent a lot of time traveling. The year started off with a bang (and not the [...]

I’ve recently been listening to a lot of podcast episodes of Hidden Brain and Invisibilia. The concept of empathy has come up multiple times in the context of the social science research that is [...]

Almost a year ago (11 months to be exact) I started at GE Digital as a User Experience Designer as part of the UXLP (User Experience Leadership Program). Just a little over two weeks ago, I [...]

A couple of weeks ago I was having a conversation with a friend about being American. He identified himself as an American, and proceeded to do the same for me, to which I had no dispute. [...]