A friend of mine uses Google Glass to record her painting process, and she uses the phrase “shortening time between intention and action” to describe wearable technologies. It’s a powerful change to suddenly not need to reach for our phone and lower our gaze to search for something, capture a memory, or discover new information. It isContinue reading “A new paradigm”
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Learning from users and creating kick ass products
I recently realized that I don’t really make websites anymore (captain obvious!). I’ve been immersed in product design and startups for the last year of my life, and have been designing web products that have more requirements than designing a pure content site. There’s lots of banter about “website vs app”, but one of theContinue reading “Learning from users and creating kick ass products”
Design as Art
In a recent Fast Company article, artist Olafur Eliasson proclaims that architects are not artists. “I think architects are much too sophisticated to be artists, and they are trained in the great art of making compromises to keep the client happy.” The subtle dance of the designer/client relationship makes completing a great work of architectureContinue reading “Design as Art”
Design is design is design
When i was working in spain with Base Madrid my mentor David Cano offered to refer me for another freelance gig with a friend of his. It was mobile design for a telecom. I told him I had never done that before and he said, “Design is design.” If you can design large-scale (we hadContinue reading “Design is design is design”
Neomodernism in product design
There is a fascinating correlation between the underlying principles of the lean startup movement and the underlying principles of modernism, regarding both process and theory. Living in the heart of Shoreditch I have come across many startups and agencies using lean and agile methodologies, and worked for a few. The uncontested bible that these fast-paced companiesContinue reading “Neomodernism in product design”
A New Perspective
Over past two years I’ve had a major pendulum swing from design based on cultural immersion to design based on technological immersion, also from a process guided by a creative director to a process guided by a lean methodology. Even though all of my work is built in code now, my inspiration still comes fromContinue reading “A New Perspective”
Defining roles that defy definition
I went to an Ada’s list event a few days ago and someone asked me what kind of design I do. For a moment I had no idea what to say. I told her that my background is in graphic design and nowadays I eat and excrete digital. Working on a team in an agile environment definitelyContinue reading “Defining roles that defy definition”
Designers of the signs that guide you
I’m starting a new full-time (freelance) job in two weeks here in London. It’s with a digital product agency called Made by Many and I can’t wait to be one of the Many… who makes web things. My transition to the new job is making me pause and reflect on some of the experiences I’veContinue reading “Designers of the signs that guide you”
Having fun
Sometimes I have no idea where it’s all going but my sketches are an attempt to make sense of and organize my thoughts. Maybe it’s a way of looking at the world around me. Most of the time I think about logical outcomes though – that side of me took over for a while andContinue reading “Having fun”
Process and pedagogy
There’s a conference happening at the moment a few blocks away from me at the Barbican. It’s bringing together all of the biggest names in graphic design – Paula Scher, Kenya Hara, Tony Brook – for a couple days, to spark dialogue. The idea is that instead of designers pontificating at the audience, they willContinue reading “Process and pedagogy”