Before the year started, a friend and I spent some time mapping out each month to help me create a plan of action around my future. I was on the verge of (slash in the middle of) burnout and without any sense of structure in my life. The toll on my body and my mental […]

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 being accompanied by a product manager and / or sales / commercial person to be supervised. I was ridiculously nervous but couldn’t understand […]

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 a phased retirement over the last couple years) and he will be sorely missed. Although I had a chance to […]

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 new product to be sold by a business to its customers. A very broad concept, it is essentially the efficient and […]

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 personal life. In an effort to not continuously hold on to negative thoughts, I started a […]