The Planet of Workshops Are workshops ruining the UX design world? points out something important for all the wrong reasons. Firstly: Workshops do not replace proper user research True, but not helpful, because a concerned third party could simply say: “well, workshop is part of our approach to user research.” Secondly: Workshops do not “democratize…
Tag: storytelling
Design, Acting, and the Fourth Wall
A conversation regarding an actor prompted me to revisit a few thoughts on the similarities between design and acting. I always think that, screen acting is a bit like product design, stage acting is a bit like service design. Screen Acting is Like Product Design Screen acting attends to the camera, and the camera is…
The Painted Veil of Hiring, Recruiting, and Job Seeking
Notes: Presented below is a long overdue article originally planned to be the first part of a three-part treatment on the problems and solutions that are mission-critical to three parties: the hiring company, the recruiter, and the job seeker. My focus has since switched to some other stuff, such as writing a couple of books….
The Myth of Telling Stories About Innovators
Just finished reading The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution by Walter Isaacson. The author is surely a very good storyteller, and when stories are told brilliantly well, they become more than stories. The primary premise, it seems, is that no single person instantiates a series of happenings…
