Notes

You know how people joke about spending months of effort and tons of money on their garden just to yield a few cucumbers…

I’m not against automation. Getting rid of empty mental calories - spreadsheets, data cleanup, calendar Tetris - is some…

I’ve sat in enough presentations to know what it looks like when someone is trying to elevate a concept higher than it n…

I think about Victoria and Carol a lot. Back in 2013, I was a UX content strategy contractor at Home Depot corporate, ea…

Good design is often described as invisible. To me, it doesn’t just mean clean interfaces and elegant use of white space…

I think about this through the lens of social contracts. Society functions because most of us agree, implicitly, to a se…

I used to think it was a good thing that people moved me from team to team because of how adaptable and autonomous I was…

I’ve always called myself an Experience Designer. It can sound precious, I know. But the distinction matters more than e…

I recently took an intentional break from full time work after choosing to leave my last role, and that distance helped …

When I started in mid-2020, it was a crazy time. COVID was still in its peak impact, businesses were suffering and compa…

I enrolled in a wheel class at the Callanwolde Fine Arts Center in Atlanta, Georgia and got hooked immediately. I love t…

As with the overview of the Experience Mapping seminar I took a few years ago with Adaptive Path, I won’t do a very in-d…

In early 2016, I realized that the pottery I was making sometimes scratched the table due to my crudely carved name on t…

We got in late on Friday and tried to hit up a few restaurants in the Mission but SURPRISE, everything on a Friday at 8:…

Each Monday at the office, the UX team runs a creative lunchtime session that we call “Unfiltered.” Totally inspired by …

While visiting my mom this weekend, we went to the Funk Heritage Center. I'd seen signs as I drove north through Jasper,…

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