Enabling a design strategy

Recently I had a chat with a lead designer from another software company, who asked “why have a design strategist?” and “what does it mean to have a design strategy?”.…

On design thinking “methods”

The Stanford d.school just published a compilation of methods from their recent “bootcamp” workshop for executives eager to learn about “design thinking”. Several Citrix execs also participated in the week-long…

Design biographies

I find the personal stories of one’s journey of success and struggle very fascinating, mainly for the various serendipitous moments of path changes that may or may have happened. And…

Dancing with the executives

As a principal designer I’ve had the fortunate (or crazy :-) chance to work directly with our division SVP and company CEO, along with other top folks like CTOs and…

Design critiques

Lately I’ve been interested in how to shape a positive constructive culture of design critiques at Citrix. Not just “yeah it looks nice” but serious discussion, deeply focused on the…