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”

The easiest way to describe last fall is this: September 16, 2024, our 16-year-old Jack Russell, Kaylee died. Kaylee’s death was the freight train that broke the camel’s back, and I spent most of  September to December trying to get back on my feet. Mostly, I’ve failed. Sometimes, maybe once in a lifetime, that’s okay. … Continue reading “Three months into the gap year”