I spent the first five years of my career learning everything I could about visual design and interaction design. I already knew a bit about visual design from print design experience and knew my way around Photoshop. I threw myself into HTML, CSS and JavaScript tutorials. After five years, although I kept learning about design, [...]
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So that’s what Agile is supposed to be like … There are a lot of teams that try to do Agile development or some hybrid variety of it at every place that uses Agile. I’ve worked in hybrid Agile teams before where some of the team is still trying to overcome waterfall development habits. But [...]
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It’s taken me a week to get around to writing this. I’ve been a bit busy. But I wanted to write about IA Summit and what sets it apart from other user experience related conferences I’ve attended. This may read like a huge advertisement for IA Summit, but it’s really just my opinion based on [...]
Read MoreI was going to write a diatribe on the idiocy of the recent article in Harvard Business Review’s blog post “Seven Rules for Managing Creative-But-Difficult People”, but Cennydd Bowles does such an outstanding job of it on A List Apart, I decided to reference that here. His response was very well framed. I don’t think [...]
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I’ve been attending the IA Summit the past couple of days and I realized something about my colleagues who work (as I do) in an in-house design team. Many of us are suffering from something called the Impostor Syndrome. For some reason, we think that we aren’t really doing that great of a job and [...]
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