Embracing problem-creator thinking in design education
Preparing design students for AI with critical analysis and innovation
Preparing design students for AI with critical analysis and innovation
Personalization in learning is good, but it isn't education's biggest failing
Notes from my 2024 class on building better UX portfolios
How creating an supportive work environment for adult learners makes for better school
Unpacking Apple’s language obsession around machine intelligence
Seeing The Great Wave off Kanagawa print from right to left opened my eyes to the power of its message
Learning from conservation biology to inspire learning experience design
The star of the eclipse might have been the sun, but if you didn’t look around you would have missed the show.
Forget the shortcuts and prompting tips and attain real creative satisfaction by focusing on the process
Use product prototypes like tangible questions to quell your doubts
A note on the vibes of my 2024 UX class
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
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
In the storm of issues affecting education, finding the small wins could be the only way to keep the energy needed to progress.
Algorithms
The Challenges of Oversimplification in Modern Education and Technology
Mental Models
Exploring the evolution of information access, decision-making, and society's acceptance of more authoritative answers
Education
ChatGPT didn't break education but it's a tempting scapegoat for lazy educators.
Education
The other day I was digging through some notebooks in my drawer, and I realized how many of them had notes about education. Each page I flipped through warped my sense of time passing. Though some of them were 10 years old, the notes felt like they were written yesterday.
Algorithms
Discovering content in the modern world is strangely beautiful and terrible
Reflections
I had a chilling thought yesterday about the effects of excessive exposure to everyone's thoughts online: It's easy to mock the excited posts of people celebrating new jobs and enjoying a small moment of victory in an otherwise difficult life. I used to dedicate my entire
Reflections
Finding a performance voice when battling with my natural tendencies.
Reflections
Barcelona was hot and humid beyond what we could tolerate, but walking around the beautiful city, visiting friends and eating delicious food made it worth it. At least it did for the first week and a half. In addition to the recommendations curated by one of our generous friends, we
Reflections
Memory, misfortune, and subconscious messages.
Unfiltered Design
Sometimes the word "design" is so heavily associated with just tips and tricks and at some point that gets stale. Good design can only come if our sources of inspiration are broad! So here goes… Informally formal Not only in learning but in work as well, there is