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Note: This blog was written without ANY artificial intelligence; so that you can truly hear my voice in a somewhat casual tone.  In the Beginning The first time I used AI for work was probably employing Miro’s sort tools to synthesize research notes from a usability study, but I was pretty disappointed with the outcome because the AI organized the cards by semantics, thus as a human looking at the same data I saw the connection between these cards at a very different level. W

Hackathon team competes to design and build a solution to help legal immigrants.

I once crafted an Axure prototyping training as a way to sharpen my own prototyping skills in Axure. There was one point I made repeatedly that I want to impress upon you whether you are an interaction designer or visual designer. The larger your files become the more complicated they become. Your design tool will automatically name your layers and objects something basic, and there will come a day when you have to edit some small item inside a frame that you just can't seem

A design system isn’t just UI tokens or Figma libraries ; it’s a shared visual language, just like a company shirt is a shared symbol. My Design System Shirt A fun part of agency culture is that we never need a reason to make a shirt — for every event, every engagement, someone designs one. At 1904Labs, one year I designed our BizDash 5K shirts: a hand-drawn character saying, “I’d rather be running code.” Looking back, those shirts to felt less like swag ; they were milestone

Make your prototypes interactive to save time and reduce questions.

About a year ago, I had the opportunity to conduct a comprehensive content strategy project for USCitizenship.com, which internally...

Tactics to make finding your files effortless and future proof searchability. Think of how your files are organized when sorted alphabetically.

The 2025 Good Eye Award One thing I miss about having an in-office culture is participating in the team building afterhours...

As a designer, you can feel pressured to get the design perfect right out the gate. Don't strive for this. That is "Hero Designer" talk...

Ideally, UX introduces development to pieces of a flow while it’s actively being built. This gives the team a chance to surface insights,...

People might not expect to make a connection between group exercise and digital professions, but I often look back at my career and my...

Definition of the professional colloquialism 'fishing with' in the context of mentorship.