Field Notes

A little bit of how I've navigated the design industry.
While sharing some practical "wisdom" for designers, leaders, and all that are interested.
In healthcare, meaningful UX isn’t just about smoother interactions or cleaner interfaces … it can be the difference between confusion and clarity, frustration and trust, delay and timely care. When the experience is better, …
I’ve been a designer long enough to see more than a few tools come and go. Without dating myself, I can remember designing UI with a little Fireworks followed by LOTS of Photoshop. I …
Early in my career, I thought great designers were the ones who said yes. Yes to features, yes to timelines, yes to being helpful, flexible, and easy to work with. It took years … …
Looks aren’t everything when it comes to real-world design Not long ago, I was wrapping up a design review with a client when a stakeholder asked, “Can we make it look better, it's kinda …
As designers, we like to believe that great work speaks for itself. But here’s the truth: it rarely does. I’ve seen brilliant design solutions die in meetings simply because they weren’t communicated the right …
Design handoff isn’t a finish line, it’s just … the next step in a meaningful back-and-forth. On paper, this is where a polished design makes its way to development. In reality? It’s sometimes the …
“Digital transformation” has become one of those buzzy, overused phrases that tends to mean everything and nothing all at once. To some, it signals a massive tech investment. To others, it’s a cultural overhaul …
Design trends come and go … glassmorphism today, brutalism tomorrow, perhaps we'll see skeuomorphism again … but the core principles of great UX and UI design tend to stand the test of time. Whether …
Somewhere along the way, “T-shaped designers” turned into frankly ... “unicorns,” and now, we expect designers to do everything. UX, UI, research, coding, product strategy, animation, marketing, front-end … the list goes on and …
There’s a moment in every designer’s career when they realize the job isn’t just about making things look good ... it’s about making things work and be useful. I think that moment often hits you …
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