On becoming a design leader…

This is based on a talk I gave at IDSA a few years ago, which I re-delivered to my class recently. As the fields of “web design” and “UI design”…

Varieties of contexts for designing

“Working as a designer” means many many different things, of course, depending on which context you might yourself. Over the last 8 years I’ve had the unique chance to experience…

Notes from Google Chrome talk

At BayCHI’s monthly talk last night, we heard Glen Murphy, lead (only?) designer for Google’s Chrome web browser explain their process and challenges. Quite a fascinating internal look at this…

Insights from corporate UX

Having worked as a designer at some of the largest and most well-known technology corporations in the valley (Oracle, Adobe, and most recently Cisco) in their respective UX teams, I’ve…

Who’s your DADI?

While reorganizing my design book collection (which is rather all over place, both physically and thematically!), I came across an oldie but a goodie: Clement Mok’s Designing Business, published by…