One advantage to working with large corporations around the world during my tenure at Microsoft is I have been exposed to many different corporate cultures in action. It may be an oversimplication, but I look at these multiple cultures through…
This week there was a rumor posted at a fan news site that Universal Studios was looking to remake one of the best movies ever made, a movie that I consider a near-perfect film. Jaws. I was not surprised, but…
I previously wrote about my favorite films of the last decade here. This inspired me to think about the shows I most enjoyed over the past ten years. As I previously noted, these are personal favorites, and I’m sure there…
This past week I was reading Twitter feeds, which is my favorite way of wasting time, and I saw this post: Seeing the Star Wars movies does not make you a Star Wars fan. Actual Star Wars fans have done…
Repost of my New Year article for Content Science Review, please check them out! It’s hard to believe, but 2020 is almost upon us, wrapping up a decade of significant change in the technology space. For UX practitioners there are…
With the new decade now underway people have been posting a lot of “best of” lists… And one that caught my eye was a list of favorite films over the past 10 years. Not “best”, but favorite – as in…
Having worked on dozens of projects around the world in my career, I have had the opportunity to work with teams that are co-located, remote, or both. Working with a local team is fairly straightforward, as long as you actively…
Had some very uncomfortable conversations in my life, and I’m recall one conversation that was very telling. Not about me, but about someone else. Said “someone else” was someone I was moved under in my company – transferred to from…
This week is the 40th anniversary of the release of Star Trek: The Motion Picture. I never saw it in theaters, but I do remember playing the HECK out of that movie on an RCA Videodisc when the family bought…
Writer Dorothy (D.C.) Fontana passed away this week at the age of 80. Fontana was a pioneering female screenwriter in the (then) male-dominated field of television. She started writing scripts for Star Trek, but then crafted great narratives for dozens…
Recently received some feedback that gave me pause. The feedback was that I was not fully engaging and partnering with product management. This prompted me to review what I was doing and change my approach and behavior. Reflecting on the…
On a recent project, I had the opportunity to formalize design standards for a web application. The application was designed “organically”… Which basically means it was designed by committee by multiple developers with very little user testing and UX forethought.…
I was recently tasked with creating an Action Plan on how UX can best support a product that needed a lot of TLC. While I had done planning activities like this in the past, this was the first time I…
Anyone who knows me know one thing: I LOVE the work of Harry Nilsson. LOVE it. I trace that love all the way back to a very odd start. It was Popeye. Yup, the Robert Altman Popeye movie. 10-year-old me…
Thank goodness Tom Selleck wasn’t Indiana Jones. That’s right: Selleck was the original choice to play Henry Jones Jr., but he couldn’t get out of his commitment (and contract) to star in TV’s Magnum PI. Instead, the part went to…
Happy to announce that I have completed a major revision of my book UX 101. I have added more content on Service Design, Design Thinking, and Agile, as well as deprecated some older content. Links to buy the Kindle and…