Folks seem to like my latest bit of advice for aspiring designers: Learn Thinky Things. I coined this advice (with…
Tag: design
It’s all made up, and that’s okay
Is content strategy … real? Product strategy? UX strategy? Customer experience? What about content design? Information architecture? Experience architecture? The…
Two product culture weaknesses that can kill your experience
When the overall quality of a digital experience feels low, but I can’t quite put my finger on it, I’ve…
Conceptual debt is killing your design process
Conceptual debt accrues when we take shortcuts in developing the foundational concepts behind our products.
What is UX Writing?
UX writing is less “writing, but apps” and more “design, but words”. What I mean by that is that UX…
Should UX Writers use Lorem Ipsum?
Using placeholer text like Lorem Ipsum can help you visualize and consider what impression the form your content will have on your reader. It’s a pencil sketch before laying down ink, a hummed melody before writing the score.
Weaponized
A bit jarring to see one of the tools of my trade — customer journey maps — pop up in…
Sometimes the box is more fun
One of the first times I presented on ecosystem mapping, an attendee shared an image of their own map they’d…
A smaller toolkit
The more you know, the less you carry. Mors Kochanski, wilderness survival expert. Writing and sketching. Card-sorting. Diagrams. Interviews. Spreadsheets.…
A Year of Writing for Designers
My first book, Writing for Designers, was released by A Book Apart one year ago today. Personally, much of the…