The Joy of Product Design
A blog about the beautifully infuriating work of designing digital human interfaces.
Developing Big and Small Ideas
When you’re loving your users, and filled with inspiration, how do you turn the ideas you have into concepts you can share with your teammates, and leaders? I like combining writing my ideas down, and using a mental framework to transform ideas into tools to reach for and use as I plan and execute on projects.
Product Design Muscles
It’s natural for every person at the beginning of their product design journey to feel frustrated with their work. When our graphic communication muscles aren’t as strong as our thinking muscles, it’s easy to perceive that gap.
Must Love Humans
When swiping through potential partners on dating apps, it’s common to find people who self-report how important to them their relationship with man’s best friend is. So many of us keep a four-legged friend around, that a person looking for a partner that “must love dogs” is a cliché in the dating scene and the stuff of pop culture. And while various people from business and process methodologies have encouraged tech workers to love problems, not solutions, I would argue that the quality worth “swiping-right” on when considering a career in Product Design, or hiring a product designer is a love for humans.