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• Book Notes: “Figure It Out”

• The Informed Life with Dorian Taylor

• The Informed Life with Laura Yarrow

• The Informed Life with Peter Bogaards

• Learning from the Beatles

• Finding Language/Market Fit

• The Informed Life with Nathan Shedroff

• Sketches as an Extension of Your Mind

• AI-driven “Design”?

• Tweaking Users' Mental Models

• Shipping the Org Chart

• Design as an Effective Agent of Change

• Abstraction and Implementation

• Machine Intelligence and the Design of Complex Systems

• How to Work with Tension in Design

• Challenges in Designing for Emerging Technologies

• Overcoming Objections to Modeling

• Internal Design Teams and Thought Leadership

• Not Just a New Feature; a New Compact

• Design with Strategic Intent

• Models Before Screens

• Profiles in Curiosity

• Citibank's $500m ‘UI’ Problem

• Openness ↔ Control

• Thinking Contextually

• Screens and Models

• Work on the Structure

• On Rules and Barbarism

• Consider the Frame

• The Expertise Trap in UX Critiques

• Caring as a Core Design Principle

• Structure Changes More Slowly Than Look-and-feel

• Do You See the Big Picture?

• Making Apple's Ecosystem More Coherent

• Gaining Clarity in Times of Uncertainty

• Design in the Post-pandemic World

• The Blind Spot in Digital Initiatives

• Internal and External Language

• Making the Company's Vision Tangible

• Label-less Buttons

• Designers as Team Players

• LEGO: An Appreciation

• Abstraction and Implementation

• Design Requires Trust

• Design for the Relationship

• Shanghai Disneyland

• Paola Antonelli on the Role of Designers

• Understanding Customer Mental Models

• How Designers Can Help Bust Silos

• Designing the Right Things

• What I Unlearned From Architecture

• Designing for Density and Sequence

• Drive-by Redesigns

• Design for Long-Term Relevance

• Data in Conceptual Models

• The Optimism of Design

• A Key to the Design Problem

• The Bridge Model

• Book Notes: "Design Unbound"

• The Logic of Conjecture

• Adaptive Path 2001-2019

• Design as an Antidote to VUCA

• A Brush With Resilience

• Systemic Design Beyond the Screen

• Which Watch to Wear to the Apocalypse

• Against Wireframes

• Design 3.0

• Twitter as a Public Square

• The “Right” Way

• The Client-Designer Relationship

• A Data Primer for Designers

• Towards Greater Diversity in Design Teams

• Purposeful Governance

• The Limits of the Ethical Designer

• Three Lessons From the Work of Charles & Ray Eames

• Elegant Simplicity

• The Urgent Design Questions of Our Time

• Framing the Problem

• Four Types of Prototypes

• Structuring the Problem

• Designing Your Life

• Prototypes and the Used Universe

• Hugh Dubberly’s Approach to Understanding Problems

• High and Low Fidelity Prototypes

• Does USB-C Turn iPad Pros Into "Real" Computers?

• Innovation and the Test of Time

• Top-down/Bottom-up

• How to Compromise a Product Vision

• Making the Place Your Own

• Not an Optimist

• Working With Ambiguity

• The End of Engagement

• Controlling Screen Time

• The Cone of Uncertainty

• If These Walls Had Ears

• Information Architecture as MacGuffin

• Places Are Making You Stupid

• I Fight for the Balance

• Designing for “Smart” Agents Among Us

• Design at a Higher Level

• What’s Your Story?

• The True Power of Design

• Designers and Makers

• When the User is not the Customer

• The Power of Co-creation

• It’s Not Just About Users

• Taking Business Seriously

• The Role of Design in Strategic Decision-making

• Design Strategy Inside Out

• Why Doesn’t the New York Times Have a Digital Design Critic?

• A Pain With No Name

• Extraordinary Evidence

• Design Systems and Emergence

• Design and Implementation Trade-offs

• Know Your Materials

• Growing Your Area of Concern

• Agency

• What Are You Working On?

• Structure and Change

• Theory and Practice

• Three Lessons From Oil Painting Class

• Re-connecting With the Big Idea

• Framing the Design of Digital Things

• The Power of Constraints

• Synchronizing the Pace of Communications

• What's the Purpose of Design Artifacts?

• Vision Before Refinement

• Thinking and Feeling

• Tools of the UX Trade

• Drawing to Think

• The Illusion of Precision

• Deliverables

• Maker Faire Wisdom

• Design is a Verb

• Chasing Engagement

• Perpetual Prototyping

• Start With a Conceptual Model

• System Pliability

• Conceptual Integrity

• Platforms and Environments

• Buckminster Fuller's Mission Statement

• Aligning Incentives

• Architectural Bravado

• Design as a Way of Knowing

• Move Fast and Brake

• People, Not Users

• Consistency and Coherence

• Aspire to Ever-Fatter Markers

• How to Design New Information Environments That Don’t Suck

• 3 Placemaking Lessons From the Magic Kingdom

• Lands, Hubs, and Wienies

• The Smart Sketchbook

• En Contexto

• UX Design and Architecture

• Q: Why Does Good Design Matter? A: Trust

• Joshua Prince-Ramus on the Architecture Design Process

• Design and Games

• Thoughts on the Office 12 UI

• BootStudio: The First 10 Years