Design explorer. Building products and product design teams.
Currently lead product designer at Canonical, designing humane human–AI workflows.
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2026
2025
2024
- AI tools' near future
- Research both known unknowns and unknown unknows
- Design with restraint
- Designing towards hurdles
- e46 Personas are meant to be used, not just created
- e45 Better presentations with the pyramid principle
- e44 Nonviolent communication for designers
- Generative AI's automation trap
- e43 The team's common rituals build the team
- e42 Facilitating participatory design
- e41 Articulating the design team's value
- e40 Prototypes model experiences
- Switching from Evernote to Joplin
2023
- e39 2023 Retrospect
- e38 Maturity models help formulate what good looks like
- e37 Nurturing designer and researcher careers
- UX & PM: A Strategic Duo part 2
- e36 Design team structures - defining how we work
- e35 Develop your leadership style
- e34 Wartime - peacetime design leadership
- e33 Activating insights for the design process
- Anatomy of a UX strategy
- e32 Rigor is essential in user research
- e31 Why writing matters for designers
- e30 Raising the team's empathy
- e29 Managing designers and managing researchers
- e28 Desire paths - following the users' tracks
- Yet another post on designer job titles
- e27 Onboarding designers
- e26 Product trios for designers
- e25 Writing useful hypotheses
- e24 Problem space, solution space
- e23 Celebrating successes is a team effort
- e22 UX strategy - the design team's guide to success
- e21 1-on-1s - strengthening the team with coaching
- e20 Designing meaningful products with AI
- e19 Design audits - improving collaboration, quality, and alignment
- e18 Sustainability for product design teams
- e17 Career ladders chart a path for the team's growth
- e16 Getting deeper with well-formed user interview questions
- e15 Pair design leads to better design collaboration
- e14 Building great design teams with a purposeful hiring process
- e12 Articulating design decisions makes design work transparent
- e11 Design intent clarifies what a design aims to achieve
- e10 Design principles set the foundation for good design
- e09 What is good design
- e08 Writing experience stories for better portfolios
2022
2021
2020
2018
2017
2016
- #stretchcon 2016 impressions
- The 4x4 Mini-Design Brief
- #amuseconf 2016 impressions
- Why Doing Design Research is Imperative
- UX Quotes to the Rescue
- Designing for Mobile Engagement
- Design Camp Adventures
- Drawing Houses
- Clashing Design Principles to Annoy You
- How Might We — Hogyan tudhatnánk
- From design to product design
- #watchlearn Designing How We Design — Kim Goodwin
- About Ford’s faster horses