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Heuristics — or mental shortcuts — ease the cognitive load of decision making. You can read about Jakob Nielsen's 10 general principles for interaction design at https://lnkd.in/eBnb5299 , and Stev...

Started writing my second book. This one talks about how to get past burn out and how to not allow the corporate world to kill your love for design.

Match is MS Awareness month. There are so many people with MS out there struggling to just make it through the day—whether it’s pain, anxiety, depression, fatigue, or loss of cognitive function. Th...

Finished the course on UX Management from the Interaction Design Foundation

Changing lanes and starting a new position as an Experience Architect (XA) of UX Design at U.S. Bank.

I was going through some old notes today and came across a note that I wrote exactly a year ago. At the time, I was trying to create a more specific UX and Visual design system, and wanted to defin...

Design Process: 13) Refine the Look and Feel One of the more aggravating, demoralizing, and expensive things to happen to any project is when someone with the ability to change the scope, indeed ch...

Consistency is driven by the 3 P's: People: Cultivate your own culture; grow leaders; no learning curves; reduce churn and burn-out. Price: Instead of paying contractors, pay for staff that efficie...

Logged-in to get my course certificate for The Ultimate Guide to Visual Perception and Design https://www.interaction-design.org/brad-thomas/certificate/course/34e28b0f-0c71-4363-b23f-567b93141d88 ...

This date is arbitrary, as it took much longer than this and the deployment was sporadic, but it took place from roughly December 2017 to the early part of 2020. We embarked on a project to re-imag...

One piece of advice I give to all designers, developers, and digital workers is to take your stress levels seriously. If you feel burned-out, you are. Incorporate stress reduction into your daily r...

Perhaps one of the most important parts of my job is writing documentation for developers. Trying to anticipate and provide answers to questions they would have, preemptively, requires putting on a...

Design Systems sometimes prohibit what you need to create. Make sure you have a Design Philosophy to cover things that aren't exactly the same as something else, and socialize it well.

Once upon a time …

Wrote "Demystifying the Process: Design", an eBook for small to medium sized businesses to understand what all is involved in the design process for web-based projects.