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When we were younger, we all followed certain “fads“*. As a kid of the 90s I remember the switch from Pokemon to Digimon (and I know some never made that leap), from Digipets to Giga [...]

This past Monday marked the 5-year mark of working in the design industry. While seemingly a small milestone, I thought I would take this time to reflect on some of the professional lessons [...]

This piece has been edited from a Toastmasters speech that I wrote. What do you see?A square right. Let’s give this square a bit more power.And it becomes a cube. And you know what this becomes [...]

How does one navigate and organize information?This is the problem I’ve been tackling within my current role as a VUI designer in the Alexa Info UX org. From a product design perspective, [...]

When you start a new job, everyone gives you bits of advice to take your co-workers out for coffee, or study up before your first day. What they don’t tell you is how to navigate the first [...]

When I first started out in design (and sometimes even now), I get asked to make logos for start-ups or events. Most people are pretty flippant about it assuming that 1. it doesn’t take [...]

Having spent some time both in the aviation space and working for an OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) in the automobile industry, I thought it would be valuable to capture some of my [...]

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 [...]