Humans are natural storytellers. We tell our partners, our family, our friends how our days are. We tell our colleagues stories of that thing the client asked for in a meeting (and possibly how absurd it is). We tell ourselves stories about the day ahead of us (I’m going to go to work, get groceries, … Continue reading “The Origins of Storytelling: Improvisation”

I usually have captions on for most videos/streaming, although I tend to turn them off on YouTube – because most of them are awful. Even major video producers seem to use automated captions that have barely been cleaned up. I can hear well enough that it’s easy to tell that they’re wildly inaccurate, they’re poorly … Continue reading ““a lot of research into things that have very little meaning””

A year ago, I took on working remote for the first time — not just being a remote designer, but a remote design manager. I figured after a year I needed to write the prerequisite “here’s what I learned” piece. Here’s the thing, though — there’s not a lot I can tell you that every … Continue reading “3 Things I Didn’t Expect About Working Remote”