Tales from the trenches: Lessons learned from Netscape, Yahoo!, and Google
I get asked a lot by people for career advice. A lot of the questions center around getting to some destination, such as “How do I get promoted to the next level?” or “What kinds of career paths are available for designers?” In other words,
“Where am I going, and how do I level up?”
Mindful Design: What the UX World Can Learn from Yoga
This article is reprinted from the September 2013 issue of UXPA Magazine.
In this article, I will describe how mindfulness practices benefit designers, based on my firsthand experience as a design executive, mentor and yoga teacher.
The Nectar of Chanting
We just returned from a family trip to the ashram in upstate NY. Our visit was profound, powerful, and uplifting, in ways that are too deep, personal, and difficult to explain with words. As is typically the case when taking the kids to a new, unfamiliar place, they were uncomfortable at first, but by the end of the week they loved it. Much to my surprise and delight, the kids have really taken to chanting.
"I'm not good at yoga."
Now that I'm teaching yoga, the topic of yoga comes up in conversation from time to time. A comment I hear often is "I don't do yoga. I'm not good at it." The irony of this comment fascinates me. How come one rarely says, "I don't go to strength training classes, because I'm not strong," yet people say they don't do yoga because they're not flexible?
