{"id":837,"date":"2012-12-16T11:44:06","date_gmt":"2012-12-16T18:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/?p=837"},"modified":"2012-12-16T12:14:13","modified_gmt":"2012-12-16T19:14:13","slug":"2012-recap-accomplishments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/?p=837","title":{"rendered":"2012 Recap: Accomplishments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"no\"?-->Whew, what an amazingly hectic and crazily productive year it&#8217;s been! And again, I&#8217;m feeling truly blessed and fortunate to have had some incredible opportunities with a fantastic team to work on futuristic concepts, speak internationally, and interact with design students. Here&#8217;s a brief roundup of some big things I&#8217;ve accomplished this year while at Citrix as Principal Designer:<\/p>\n<div style=\"font-family: Georgia;\">\n<ul>\n<li>Spoke at <a href=\"http:\/\/schedule.sxsw.com\/2012\/events\/event_IAP12337\">SxSW in Austin about designing for multitouch<\/a> devices in the enterprise space. Also spoke at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uxaustralia.com.au\/uxaustralia-2012\/threes-company\">UX Australia about an effective collaboration<\/a> model (dubbed &#8220;3-in-a-box&#8221;) based upon Citrix team success.\u00c2\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Continued championing good design practices and principles at annual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.siliconvalley-codecamp.com\/Sessions.aspx?ForceSortBySessionTime=true&amp;AttendeeId=411\">Silicon Valley CodeCamp<\/a>, and also at <a href=\"http:\/\/leanstartupmachine.com\/events\/san-francisco-november-30-december-2\/\">Lean Startup Machine<\/a>, for the developer communities.<\/li>\n<li>Becoming more involved in the startup community as a &#8220;UX Advisor&#8221; at the <a href=\"http:\/\/citrixstartupaccelerator.com\/\">Citrix Startup Accelerator<\/a>. We&#8217;ll formally rollout a design-driven program in 2013, but started with a few engagements including a successful &#8220;UX Cafe&#8221; event, featuring Citrix designers and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.luma-institute.com\/about\/leadership\">Chris Pacione of LUMA<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Led a very successful sponsorship of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cca.edu\/academics\/graduate\/design-mba\/curriculum\">CCA&#8217;s first year dMBA Innovation Studio<\/a> fall course, whereby Citrix provided funds and mentors to a set of student teams tackling the challenge of &#8220;work and play from anywhere&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>Coordinated the premiere Bay Area screening of <a href=\"http:\/\/designthinkingmovie.com\/\">&#8220;Design &amp; Thinking&#8221; documentary film<\/a> at Citrix, where ticket proceeds went to support LLS (Leukemia &amp; Lymphoma Society) for a truly great cause!<\/li>\n<li>Worked on some fascinating futuristic UI concepts: one for an executive Think Tank forum around the &#8220;Future of Work&#8221; for the mobile work style, and another on multimodal cross-device interactions for Citrix Labs. Some cool visionary thinking may proliferate into product roadmaps&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Started drafting my book on reflections &amp; perspectives as a Silicon Valley designer. Hope to publish sometime in 2013. Please stay tuned&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whew, what an amazingly hectic and crazily productive year it&#8217;s been! And again, I&#8217;m feeling truly blessed and fortunate to have had some incredible opportunities with a fantastic team to work on futuristic concepts, speak internationally, and interact with design students. Here&#8217;s a brief roundup of some big things I&#8217;ve accomplished this year while at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/?p=837\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;2012 Recap: Accomplishments&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=837"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":842,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837\/revisions\/842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}