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First Product, Lasting Impact: How design systems reflect company culture.
Your DS is the first product your org builds. It’s not only an arbiter of design maturity, it reveals how your company functions. To get humans to adopt and do things it helps to understand their goals. DS adoption is tied to motivation—to understand what that is, it helps to be goal-directed. What makes… -
The evolution of visual design and tech’s designer renaissance.
With a background in visual design, I got my start as an interaction designer working on software that allowed users to professionally print and produce their work via a digital workflow. Most of this was not web-based. This was software running on the OS, the “thick client.” The visual scope of what a designer could…
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A Public Display of Interface
The last time I visited SFMOMA was 3 years ago, just before they closed for a major expansion of the museum. I worked on an interface that had just won an interaction design award several months prior to my visit and was on a designer’s high, daydreaming as I walked through the museum, wondering, would a…
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