My recently completed dissertation at the Carnegie Mellon School of Design explores the barriers that UX practitioners face in trying to incorporate long-term perspectives into their work. Drawing on more than 100 interviews and workshops with working practitioners, this research explores how UX practitioners might incorporate new methods drawn from the fields of alternative [...]
Recent writing
Medium
01/22/2020
In an increasingly metrics-driven business climate, UX practitioners face escalating pressures to deliver small-scale results. Is there a better way?
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08/19/2019
Reflections on teaching a summer course in Design Futures at the School of Visual Arts in NYC.
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07/12/2018
Reflections on a ten-day course in Transition Design at Schumacher College in the UK.
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03/14/2018
Recapping a workshop on the future of design education at the 2018 IxDA Education Summit in Lyon, France.
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12/16/2017
What does it mean to do “meaningful” work? According to a recent MIT study, most of us find meaning in our professional lives in highly individual and idiosyncratic ways: one person’s tedium is another’s labor of love.
Medium
06/02/2017
In his 1905 novel A Modern Utopia, H.G. Wells imagined a future world in which a small group of highly skilled creative workers wielded enormous power over the rest of society. He dubbed this new breed of elite professionals the “Samurai.”