I’m the host, along with Aarron Walter, of the Design Better Podcast, which was nominated for a Webby in 2020, and has won numerous other awards. We’ve interviewed creatives like Dan Pink, John Maeda, Debbie Millman, Seth Godin, Jason C. Mayden, and the inimitable John Cleese. “Each episode is sharp, to the point, and full […]
Product design has been the foundation of my career for the past 17 years, and although I have followed more of a winding, overgrown trail than a neat, linear path, design is the thread that runs through each step of my journey. I’m very excited to announce that this journey has led me to a […]
Curious by Design will tell the stories of designers, artists, and entrepreneurs who use relentless curiosity to bring their creations into the world, build an audience, and create a sustainable living from their work. We are launching a podcast in late Spring of 2016; sign up below to get notified when we pull the trigger:
For those of you who have been following along with the 6x6x6 Project (6 side projects in 6 months, each taking 6 hours or less), I’ve been on something of a hiatus for the past year or so. The most compelling reason (well, excuse) for this is that I took on a coaching role in the […]
Over the past 15 years, I’ve jumped around to a lot of different, sometimes very odd, careers: from designing underwater housings for cameras, to researching how sea lions are so damn good at stealing salmon from fishermen, to creating an application for capturing family stories. A few years ago, I created a timeline that attempts to mash them together […]
So this is just a quick update to let everyone know that the 6x6x6 project is still alive (or at least, not dead yet), because so many of you have been asking (OK, maybe just a few people…well, my mom at least). I recently finished up my latest project, as the co-author of a guide […]
What do you do with content that you create that a client decides not to use? Almost 5 years ago, I was working on a project for the Napa Valley restaurant Ubuntu, re-designing its website in collaboration with the extraordinarily talented chef, my friend Jeremy Fox (he later earned the restaurant a Michelin star, the first for a […]
When I moved back to Silicon Valley in 2011, I was a startup neophyte. I’d done my undergrad here, but that was in the early, heady days of the internet, right when the first browsers were being released, and before startups that no one had heard of were running superbowl commercials about herding cats. And […]
(update October 2014: 6x6x6 got stalled out a bit at project #4 when I took on a teaching role in addition to my consulting work, but I’m about to relaunch so stay tuned!) My wife recently shared an article with me called “10 Reasons Why You Have to Quit Your Job This Year” by James Altucher, a blogger/entrepreneur whose […]
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