How doctors handle uncertainty and what UX designers and educators can learn
Realizing the importance of precision in language for navigating ambiguity and improving decision-making
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UX education that feels like you're at work
Using Figma as a central hub for peer learning, assignments and feedback
When the Steps Don’t Match the Beat
Breaking down the Curse of Knowledge in learning
The Idea DJ method to unblock creativity
How AI transforms creative research into a process of mashup and discovery
Making “think twice” a tangible tool for learning
Why reflecting with AI can make classroom conversations more meaningful
The Magic of Students Giving Themselves Advice
Exploring how generative ai helps students discover their own solutions by reframing challenges as peer advice
Using technology to break the learning styles myth
Can interactive experience show students the power of multi-modal learning?
From students seeking cheat codes to embracing dice rolls
Reflecting on the role of good learning processes in a world of probabilities
Can this tool make design class discussions richer?
Can this tool make class discussions richer?
Maybe being in someone else's shoes should be required training
I never understood some of the ways my teachers behaved until I started teaching myself. Why did certain emails get ignored? Why did they grade so carelessly? What made them so angry about questions related to the exams? Teaching over the last seven years has exposed me to a lot
Embracing problem-creator thinking in design education
Preparing design students for AI with critical analysis and innovation
AI tutors aren't a silver bullet, nor should they be
Personalization in learning is good, but it isn't education's biggest failing
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UX Portfolio Lessons: Timeless & Thoughtful Storytelling
Notes from my 2024 class on building better UX portfolios
Education
From Teacher Grading to Manager Feedback
How creating an supportive work environment for adult learners makes for better school
Algorithms
Generative, Personal, but not Artificial
Unpacking Apple’s language obsession around machine intelligence
Education
Looking the other direction to learn more deeply
Seeing The Great Wave off Kanagawa print from right to left opened my eyes to the power of its message
Education
Planting seeds as a teaching mindset
Learning from conservation biology to inspire learning experience design
Reflections
We often forget the cast and crew
The star of the eclipse might have been the sun, but if you didn’t look around you would have missed the show.
Mental Models
Focus on how you work with AI, not what it answers
Forget the shortcuts and prompting tips and attain real creative satisfaction by focusing on the process
Reflections
Navigating the Open Waters of an Early-Stage Product
Use product prototypes like tangible questions to quell your doubts
Education
In my class, you surf alone and get feedback together
A note on the vibes of my 2024 UX class
Reflections
23 things I learned in 2023 about how we communicate
Talking is exciting, infuriating, and wonderfully human. As an extrovert and a teacher, I think a lot about communication and how we can make it more enjoyable, intentional, and effective. Here’s a list of 23 observations I made during the tens of thousands of conversations I had in 2023.
Algorithms
Intellectual Nutrition Labels for Generative AI Products
If a generative AI had a nutrition label that said "100 brain calories per ChatGPT response", would that change how you use it? Nutrition could serve as a metaphor to understand why taking a tempered approach with generative AI might be important for our intellectual health. For starters,
Education
How we learn is changing. Why am I worried?
In the storm of issues affecting education, finding the small wins could be the only way to keep the energy needed to progress.