Happiness or Meaning?
I know this blog is supposed to be about lessons from my day job at a design firm in Silicon Valley, but this little tete-a-tete between two characters from the…
When in Rome…
As the design and development teams are finalizing the designs of widgets, controls, labels, you need to come together on the vocabulary: is it a dropdown menu, droplist, pulldown list,…
Prototype Evaluation
When constructing POC (proof of concept) prototypes for customer evaluation: 1) The prototype should be as real/accurate as possible with real data, to convey something sufficiently familiar in terms of…
Jobs on Entrepreneurship
And a few words from Jobs on the hardcore challenges of being an entrepreneur, also circa 1995: I get asked this a lot and I have a pretty standard answer…
Steve Jobs on Organizations
A small departure from studio-based lessons from Andrei…now let’s hear what Jobs says about organizations vs. start-ups, circa 1995: One of the things that happens in organizations as well as…