Taking inspiration from the digital gardening approach for publishing personal knowledge, these are the things I'm tending that are keeping me energized, creative, curious, and above all else, playful.
The categorization is as follows: seed = early thought, bud = refined, flowering = researched and interrogated
For more information on my inspiration for digital gardening, look at Maggie Appleton's Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden
I wonder if the satisfaction of finding the thing that you didn't know you were looking for is heavily driven by the feeling of delight from "happening upon something" without much effort. It makes me wonder what a world will look & feel like when we can always get exactly what we ask for. I hope we keep a little space for the serendipity of discovery from one another, even if it means keeping some of the "frictions" were working so hard to limit today.
read moreAs I've grown in my career, I've come to admire the person in the room that is most vocal about what they do not know. As I ponder what it means to be an expert and look ahead for myself, I'm finding I don't aspire to develop my expertise in a subject, but my expertise in making sense of new and unfamiliar information.
read moreA deep dive into how I've been framing the value beyond the hype when it comes to Extended Reality (XR) and the prophesied future experience layer of technology. Knowing that all experiences are grounded in how we feel, think, and behave, I've ventured back to the familiar yet comforting embrace of JSTOR to learn more about what cognitive science has taught us about interpersonal communication and human interaction.
read moreBecause we know reframing learnings in your own words is one of the best demonstrations of consolidation and understanding, here is my recount of attention, active engagement, error feedback and consolidation, or the four pillars of learning, as outlined by Dehaene in "How We Learn: The New Science of Education and the Brain".
read moreAn exploration of the relationship between product strategy and user experience strategy paired with a handy [rudimentary] animation to visualize the resulting framework.
read moreIs it possible that by designing for learnability we can continually explore new styles to revive the excitement of novel digital experiences and create a more sustainable and equitable future for technology?
read moreMy year spent working on a commercial banking portal led me to an exercise in defining product strategy hierarchy as it relates to product design and how I hope to apply what I learned from this experience to future work.
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