Open Letter to Apple
Your CEO, Tim Cook, must go. It’s as simple as that.
My Favorite Records of 2024
Music is of my favorite parts of the human experience. Few things bring me more joy. So every year I compile a list of my favorites to share with everyone.
My Most Loved Posts and Articles from 2024
Over the past couple years I’ve only written a handful of articles. This is because I’ve been writing a book. But this year I found the time to publish fifteen new pieces. I also published heaps of posts on Mastodon.
National Adoption Month
November is National Adoption Month, as set forth by Barack Obama in 2011. My wife and I are parents of five children, three of them adopted. I’d like to share some things we’ve learned on our journey (including transracial adoption).
Why I Left Medium
On November 10, 2014 I published my first article on Medium. I had published other pieces elsewhere, but it was my first on this new-to-me platform. It was also the first time I published my own work instead of writing for publications.
Three UX Laws That Optimize Information Seeking
The fundamental purpose of information architecture is to enable efficient information retrieval. We accomplish this with meaningful information structure and intuitive labels. And we bring them together with sensible navigation design.
From a Revolutionary, a Princess is Born?
On May 25th, 1977, the world met Star Wars, a film that changed science fiction forever. Go back nearly a century—to 1890—and a much smaller world met Clara de la Rocha, a woman who changed Mexico forever. And Princess Leia brought them together. At least according to George Lucas.
Rodney, the Drinking Fountain, and the Little White Racist: How I Learned to Fear Black People
I don’t know that I have ever told this story to anyone, other than my wife, but there are a handful of people around my age who may remember it well.
The Battle for Interstellar Frontiers, and Why it May Not Matter
If you have a debit card and around $35 you can purchase an extraterrestrial acre of land. Online. Deeds are available for plots on Mercury, Venus, Mars, Lo, and Titan. If you want something a little closer, lunar plots are also available.
Approaching the Complexities and Nuances of Automotive UX
UI design takes on an entirely different meaning when the UX doesn’t include a screen. That’s a lot of what automotive UX/UI design is all about.
In the early years of my career, every user experience I was designing comprised a single modality and a single visual UI. As my career progressed, I was able to work on an ever-expansive ecosystem of modalities, including products with smaller UIs, and even without UIs at all.