Taking on a venture is a lot of work. Doing so with limited time is even harder. This is what I am doing with Studio89. One application of the 7 areas of knowledge framework is using it as a starting point to organize all the tasks that I need to…

Today is my first day as a part time CEO. My mission with being a part time CEO is to prove to myself and the world that I can start, build, and grow a company outside my 9–5 job. My larger mission in life is to empower anyone to make…

And was your mom right or wrong about games? — News hit that Microsoft is acquiring Activision, the game studio behind hits like Candy Crush and Call of Duty. This got me thinking about our perception of video games and what role they will play our the future. Growing up I was not allowed to own a video game device…

Before I started my career as a creative scientist, I had no idea what user experience is, or how to go about designing one. In college, I had a day job as a medical interpreter at the Johns Hopkins hospital. Here’s a case study of my first experience design. Introduction As…

A 5-point narrative approach — In my own portfolio—currently under re-construction. I use a version of the five-point format to write the introduction section of a peer-reviewed scientific paper. This format tells the reader everything they need to know about a project in roughly a single page. The rest of the article dives deep into…

Hey designers! Stop, and I cannot emphasize this enough, using the term UX/UI. The user interface (UI) is merely a subset of the entire user experience. I saw this once online captured beautifully like this: you wouldn’t say I drive a vehicle/car or I’m enjoying a vegetable/carrot. This is exactly…

Shifting-T model of knowledge for renaissance technologists. — Donald Norman, who perhaps is the father of user experience, defines UX as encompassing all aspects of the end-user’s interaction with the company, its services, and its products. This is a broad definition. One that is not easily captured by a set of skills. How can a UX professional be…

As I was drinking my coffee this morning, I grabbed my iPad and Apple Pencil for a quick Miro Morning session. I wanted to write down my thoughts and come up with an efficient framework to creating and publishing content, capturing my process. Here’s the output of my Miro board.

Whether it is a product or a service, lives completely in the virtual software world or has a physical hardware component, a digital experience has three components.