Sketchnote: Scaling User Research
Sketchnote: State of Design Leadership - Panel
Scaling at the Speed of Humans
Written version of a talk I gave at the Joint Futures conference in Helsinki, Finland on Sept 3, 2019
Sketchnote: Scaling Design Teams - Panel
Sketchnote of a panel I led at the 2024 Design Leadership Summit in Toronto
Sketchnote: Design Leadership is More Than Leading Design
Sketchnote of Peter Merholz’s talk at the 2024 Design Leadership Summit
Sketchnote: Responsible AI
Sketchnote of Albert Shum’s talk at the University of Waterloo’s BLEND Conference 2024
Not ladders but impact radius: re-framing our mental model of career advancement
Progress is more nuanced than the ladder metaphor allows for. In this post, I talk about an alternative metaphor: impact radius.
Thriving in a VUCA World
VUCA is an acronym for Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, and Ambiguous. It’s an apt description for these times we’re living in. This post explores strategies and tactics to thrive in these conditios.
Progress over perfection
Many of us want certainty before we’re willing to act. In this post, I argue that progress is more important than perfection.
How might we convince stakeholders to invest in design?
What does it even mean to “invest in design” and why would our stakeholders even want that?
The secret life of information architecture: the space between tools and theories
This is the written version of a talk I gave at World IA Day in 2019 in which I challenge the superficial understanding of information architecture as website menu options.