PinnedMaking Phone Calls on the iPhone Easier for Parents with Alzheimer’s Disease and DementiaMy father was diagnosed with early onset dementia in his early sixties. He’ll turn seventy-one in a few months, and the disease has progressed to the point that he struggles with everyday tasks that were once easy for him. Among those is using his iPhone to call his family members. …Alzheimers5 min readAlzheimers5 min read
PinnedTension Is To Be LovedWhy Product Owner Teams Make Better Products — In product development, there’s a perpetual tension between designers, developers, and product managers. The designer presses for a product that is desirable. If users don’t love and adopt it, what does it matter? The developer champions feasibility. …Product Management5 min readProduct Management5 min read
Jul 19This I BelieveIncomplete and Unordered Thoughts on Leadership — In the spirit of the famous Edward R. Murrow radio series featuring ordinary Americans sharing the things they believe to be absolutely true, I want to capture some of the ideas that I believe to be true about leading people. …Leadership6 min readLeadership6 min read
Apr 14, 2015Design Is About Process, Not GeniusI’m not a genius. That might sound shocking if your perception of design involves people solving problems by having brilliant, inspired, creative ideas. But it’s true: I’m not any smarter than the next guy, and I don’t have better ideas than anyone else. But I am a designer, and if…Design4 min readDesign4 min read
Apr 14, 2015The Hidden Cost of InactionMy wife and I were in our early twenties when we bought our first house. The previous owner was renovating the 1898 Victorian to become apartments when he ran out of cash and was forced to sell. The beauty and character of the house had been largely plastered over —…Product Management3 min readProduct Management3 min read
Apr 14, 2015Pee, Poo, and Unintended ConsequencesThoughts on how what we measure drives behavior — My three-and-a-half-year-old son, Evan, has decided that he’s just not that interested in getting out of diapers. He’s our last, and we’re ready to stop funding Pampers, so we’ve resorted to the most time-honored of parenting tools: bribery. Each time he pee-pees in the potty, he gets to watch a…Software Development4 min readSoftware Development4 min read
