Reflections & Intentions: 2018 > 2019
Looking back, for me 2018 — which felt like it lasted a decade! — was a year of transitions and connections, of not knowing and adapting to the unexpected, while…
Disposability in design: feature not a bug
Building upon the previous post’s point about the need to “show the ugly†in design, not simply jumping to and showcasing your gorgeous Sketch mockups via templates and plug-ins…There’s another…
Showing the ugly in design
Perhaps due to the ease & proliferation of Sketch templates for creating high-res mockups that look production-ready — dashboards to admin consoles to social feeds — there seems to be…
Designer as interpreter & therapist
One essential truth of being a designer that I’ve realized over the past 15+ years of practice — with startups, large corps, and agencies — is that it’s not really…
The designer’s power
Over a late afternoon coffee, a fellow designer asked me “how can we have power as designers†— in the context of “those big decisions” being made by non-design leaders…