All my life I’ve been a terrible fidget, and I’m easily distracted by visual stimuli. So in college I doodled and wrote stories in my journal instead of taking notes. As an adult, I’ve found that I tend to drift off into work if I use my laptop too much. But knitting keeps my hands … Continue reading “Rules for Knitting in Meetings”

About this time last year, a buzz formed around a gallery website that featured unconventional website designs that bucked the trend of slick, UI-centric layouts common around the web today. The gallery, Brutalist Websites, features screenshots of websites with a “ruggedness and lack of concern to look comfortable or easy.” Hype around the trend seems … Continue reading “Redefining Web Brutalism”

What’s the point of a UI when the back-end isn’t performant enough to serve correct data in a timely fashion? Wait, I’m getting ahead of myself. Let me back up. One time I walked into a big triage meeting for our very late, very broken latest product release. We needed to look over 400+ bugs … Continue reading “On UX in the Triage Room”