Holy Pumpkin Spice Batman, it’s September! I feel like the last few months have been a bit of a blur. General Life Despite the title of this post, it’s distinctly un-fall like in TN right now. With highs in the 100s over the last few days, the brisk 83 we had for a high today felt like a break. Look

Design is creativity with a specified purpose. Design always has goals and intention behind it. So how do we know when we’ve achieved those goals? Measuring the success of design can be incredibly simple, it can also be one of the most challenging aspects of a design career. With advertising, measur

As I look to progress in my career one thing that I’ve had to grapple with over the last few months is the idea that I’d no longer be the one with the hands on the wheel of our design systems. Focusing on larger Design Operations and product leadership initiatives means I’m going to have less time t

As we look towards planning for Q3, the product teams I work with have started their quarterly product increment (PI) planning. One thing that came up this week was how to understand or find the outcome for a specific goal or problem. It’s easy to fall into old projects traps such as “we should add

In Product-Led organizations discovery is critical to understanding what users need and determining the right things to build. There are plenty of tools at our disposal to conduct discovery. In this post I want to highlight a few mentioned in Marty Cagan’s Inspired. What is Product Discovery? Before

Our research team showcased Dovetail to our team this week. I’m looking forward to spending more time with the product, but something mostly unrelated to the product stood out in their demo. While walking us through the tool they kept having to specify that some of the words they were using meant di

Did you know that the DOM (Document Object Model) defines the web as objects? Or that this representation of web pages is object-oriented so that it can be modified by scripting languages? While these may seem like basic ideas it’s always interesting to dig into the details of the web that we work i

While catching up my my RSS feed, I read through Brad Frost’s recent post Should Designers Code? I’ve always agreed with the overall sentiment of the article, especially this bit: Designers need to understand and work with the grain of the medium for which they’re designing. For the web, that means

As a part of looking to improve our the efficiency and effectiveness of our product and design teams I’ve been reading Discussing Design by Adam Connor and Aaron Irizarry. I’d like to boost one of the concepts discussed in the book that I think could benefit a lot of teams I’ve worked with in the pa

As this year comes to an end and we begin looking into the next one I’ve decided to publish my goals for the next year in a hope that this will help keep my accountable to reaching them. Visit Scotland We’ve planned a trip for this fall to visit England Scotland and Ireland. This is one of our major

One Post a Week Back in September I set a challenge for myself to try and write one blog post a week through the end of the year. I figured, 7 days to write one single post? Peace of cake. Turns out that writing is a lot harder than I thought. I managed do to it though, and it’s something I plan on