About: Dylan Wilbanks

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Dylan Wilbanks is a design leader, roustabout, raconteur, and curmudgeon currently practicing as a user experience designer in Seattle. He’s spent nearly 20 years designing, building, and perfecting online experiences, and every once in a while does a good job. Occasionally, he speaks at conferences like SXSW and Webvisions. He created one of the first Twitter accounts used in higher education, but that was an accident, and he's really sorry about it. With Kyle Weems, he co-hosted Squirrel And Moose, a podcast about designing and building the web. He's on Bluesky as @dylanw.social. Learn more about Dylan at dylanwilbanks.com.

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Posts by Dylan Wilbanks:

  • Is UX Dead?, 03 Nov 2025
  • Design teams as Total Football, 12 May 2025
  • UX, AI, and the farsightedness of design, 04 Mar 2025
  • The Omelas Moment, 29 Jan 2025
  • On Speed in UX Design, 12 Dec 2024
  • “I’ve never been unemployed before”: A Guide, 12 Jun 2024
  • On The Nature Of Pace, 31 Jan 2023
  • On Pirates And Management, 02 Jun 2022
  • On Not Writing in 2020, 31 Dec 2020
  • 3 Things I Didn’t Expect About Working Remote, 28 May 2019
  • Burnout and Shooting Zombies, 15 Apr 2019
  • The End of Speaking, 22 Jan 2019
  • The persistence of point-of-sale chip readers, 08 Nov 2018
  • “Way too much political opinion”, 05 Nov 2018
  • Chasing Titles, 09 Jul 2018
  • The Misspelled Portfolio, 03 May 2018
  • The names we won’t say, 03 Apr 2018
  • Room for everyone: On designers doing user research, 23 Jan 2018
  • My 2017, 31 Dec 2017
  • Once more into the UX harassment breach, 30 Nov 2017
  • Putting some color in a conference presentation, 16 Nov 2017
  • In defense of design sprints, 31 Oct 2017
  • Twitter must change or die, 04 Oct 2017
  • Our False Enemy, Time, 05 Sep 2017
  • Sorrow, 18 Aug 2017
  • Stepping Out Of The Hole, or How I Learned To Save Myself, 20 Jun 2017
  • On UX in the Triage Room, 09 May 2017
  • Telling your story, 12 Apr 2017
  • On IA Summit 2017 and Legacy, 28 Mar 2017
  • The true tragedy of the commons, 11 Jan 2017
  • There. Are. Four. Lights., 07 Dec 2016
  • Choosing your friends, 11 Oct 2016
  • What makes a senior designer?, 13 Sep 2016
  • Design and culture change, 02 Aug 2016
  • Pixel pushing, 12 Jul 2016
  • Cicadas, 30 Jun 2016
  • Allies, 21 Jun 2016
  • Put On Your Oxygen Mask First, 02 Jun 2016