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Movies Watched, April 2019

I got out to theaters twice last month to see “Shazam!” and “Avengers: Endgame,” both jam-packed with super-hero action and…

Thanos: Super-Villain and Terrible Designer

Here is a presentation that I made last week about how to understand the design process, explained through the lens…

Scapegoating User Experience Design

An article published yesterday in The Washington Post demonstrates the danger of design’s failure to broaden popular understanding of our…

Movies Watched, March 2019

I almost didn’t get out to the movies at all last month, and really, I may as well not have…

Old Media for Young Kids

My news consumption has been so thoroughly digital for years that I honestly never expected to subscribe to home delivery…

What Design Can Do About Privacy

Any time I’m confronted with a standard GDPR privacy warning on a web site, I reflexively click the option to…

Wireframe Bonus Episode: What Good Design Sounds Like

We’re officially “on hiatus” between seasons of “Wireframe,” my podcast about how design shapes technology to fit into our lives.…

Movies Watched, February 2019

Last month I took my kids to go see “The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part” which was totally fine.…

VPNs for All

I don’t know a lot about security but I do know that when I use public wi-fi—whether on my phone,…

How to Draw a Startup That Looks Different from Other Startups

At the beginning of last year, I wrote a post about the woeful lack of aesthetic diversity in illustrations used…