July 2012
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Remembering a friend and what he taught me.
Just over two years ago, on August 16th Mike Wilkey passed away due to cancer. Mike was a UX Designer at Fallon Community Health Plan here in Massachusetts. I knew him very briefly, but he had a significant impact on my life. His love for his family and his drive to help people in any way he could made him a truly amazing person.
After Mike passed away, his wife asked me to write something about...
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Discussing Design: New all natural, super...
About a year and a half ago, after ranting to Whitney Hess for probably the 12th time about the state of “feedback” in the design community and the lack of critique. She finally told me to STFU and that I should get in touch with this dude Aaron Irizarry on the west coast who had been ranting to her about the same stuff.
But before I could, Aaron got in touch with me. That...
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Designers are individuals.
Ask a designer what the best solution for a particular problem is and you’re likely to hear everyone’s favorite answer: it depends.
And it’s true. It’s not that they can’t come up with an answer. It’s that the answer to most design questions are dependent on numerous factors.
Based on the question, the answer could depend on who your users are and their expectations or behaviors. It might depend...
