One of the Editors emerges from around a dark corner. They observe the stalled engine. They pull the starter cord…. once, twice, thrice, but nothing. The engine sits there, listless. The Editor sighs heavily, then sets their shoulders.  They pull the starter cord… once, twice, thrice, and nothing again. The Editor gives the engine a baleful … Continue reading “Reboot: to boot it again.”

When I was a kid, we still had desks in elementary school that you could store your stuff in. That’s where your textbook, pencils, erasers, and notebooks went unless you were using them. That’s also where, if you were a kid like me, everything else went — worksheets, notes to your parents, peanut shells, you … Continue reading “Dumping desks”

The design world loves to create heroes. Worse still, it likes to say these heroes work alone absent of anyone else around them. There’s Jonny Ive, the Man Who Did All Of Apple’s Comeback Designs. No one talks about the team Jonny Ive had. It’s all about the hero, not the team. Not only is … Continue reading “Design teams as Total Football”