Thoughts in Design

Designing for Multimodal AI Agents

All of the AI talk in the last year or so always brings me back to Back to the Future hoverboards. Why don't I have one yet? What's the hold up? But lets not listen to be whine but my flying skateboard and instead talk about something bubbling up all around us: Multimodal AI agents.

The Impact of Design with KPIs

Ok, so you are sitting in a meeting room with decision makers, presenting not just amazing mockups and user flows, but also data that reveals the exact impact of your design decisions...

Telling the Story of Design ROI

Imagine this: You're the design leader, filled with ideas that could transform your company's product. But there's a challenge approaching fast: budget season. You need to make a compelling case for the resources your team needs to bring those

Critiquing the Critique

Hopefully one of the most important parts of any designer’s work life is critique. They have become second nature but in my experience are never done the same way at any organization, or even inside larger organizations. The role I was in before my current allowed me to see how different design teams facilitate a design critique. The majority were doing what we might call the traditional design critique. What do I mean by this?...

The Handoff

Tired of watching your carefully crafted designs get lost in translation? The design to developer handoff is an important moment in the product development lifecycle, where the designer's vision is handed over to the developer for implementation. It's a pivotal point...

Designing for Everyone: Inclusive Design Essentials

Just my thoughts and ramblings on some great places to start with inclusive design.Let's define inclusive design.Inclusive design is design that considers the full range of human diversity with respect to ability, language, culture, gender, age, and other forms of human difference. (Inclusive Design Research Centre)In less formal terms, inclusive design is design that recognizes that people who use, view, or...