Practice really hearing
"Practice really hearing what people say. Do your best to get inside their minds." - Marcus AureliusIf stoicism is a practice of embracing what is in ...
Stoic Designer
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Bite-sized frequent episodes, Stoic Designer is about applying the practice of stoicism to your design work as a means to benchmark the day, get your head right, and craft virtuously. stoic.substack.com
Scipio's Villa and the Product Over Time
I am resting at the country-house which once belonged to Scipio Africanus himself; and I write to you after doing reverence to his spirit and to an al...
It's Halloween ? The Veil is Thin
Back in April I introduced Venerating the Grave UX (medium), which is about regularly “ritualizing” negative feedback. The idea is that periodically y...
The Ol' College Try is the Goal
We idolize a project that is complete in design work. We don’t organize portfolios around failed experiments, incomplete products, the good ol’ colleg...
Adhering to design principles under pressure
When I meet with teams I’m sometimes asked to catch folks up on the progress of various feature requests in the system. I work pretty hard to make sur...
Fear of Missing Out
Design is a performance of smart people among smart people where it’s easy to conflate merit with your in/ability to solve the kind of algorithm you’l...
The adaptable will
One of the first a-ha moments many of us have who are interested in user experience design is that whole maxim that “you are not your user.” At the ti...
Klosterman's Razor
By recommendation on twitter I’m reading But What If We’re Wrong? Thinking About The Present As If It Were The Past by Chuck Klosterman who talks abou...
What is a "Design Virtue"?
We might instead call a “design virtue” a design principle, the difference being that what we’re calling virtuous are principles that we have so much ...
Systems underlie the craft
Real talk, “practicing Stoicism” involves a lot of reading of the same core concepts boiled down to “get good at prioritizing what really matters” and...