What is it ? The 10x10 Sketch Method is a technique for making early concept generation sketching more efficient in use of time than a method that stresses finished sketches early in the design process. lt allows more time to explore ideas and so stresses the quality of thinking and the final solution.The …

The Disney Method is a parallel thinking technique. It was invented before Design Thinking evolved to it’s current state but has many of the elements of the Design Thinking approach. The technique is a complex creativity strategy in which a group uses four specific thinking styles in turn. …

A typical design thinking workshop should yield lots of amazing ideas and solutions but they aren’t always ideas which are desirable or feasible. I like to use Assumption Mapping to help determine the solutions which are viable solutions to begin to ideate. Desirability vs. Feasibility vs. Viability “What is now proved was once only imagined.”…

The Good UX Design Manager is a vital link between the company and the design team. They openly converse with all members of the design team about the project at hand. They have a deep respect for the experience every team member brings to the table. They know that the…

Think Wrong by John Bielenberg, Mike Burn, Greg Galle, Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson is a team built instructional book on how to let go of the norm and figure out new ways and new paths to solve the problems in front of them. …

My 2017 New Years Resolution to read several design related books each week continues and I am pleased to present Storytelling with Data by Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic as the next book. I am doing way better with this resolution then others I made, but we can talk about that later. …

The only path to innovation is through iteration. As a designer it’s easy to be afraid to fail. We don’t want to suck but we must suck. We want to create the perfect design but let’s face it; that only happens through lots and lots of validation and iteration.

Nearly 25 years ago, as I was driving to work at Netscape in Mountain View, California, I was sitting in traffic and listening to the radio when a heavily New York-accented woman was on the radio show talking about how she had just lost her job as the Snapple spokeswoman…

Emotional Intelligence (EQ) really intrigues me. My first job out of college (a long ago) was at a small children's publishing company, Enchanté, in Woodside, California. Located just steps away from Alice’s Restaurant, inside the founder’s home; we designed an Emotional Intelligence curriculum for young children. I truly believe; as…