DESIGN is... (What CEOs Should Know About Design)
Today, design is as important as technology. I was meeting with a startup last week when the principal architect asked me why is design more important now than ever before?
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?”
Hiring and Retaining Women in Tech
The same day UX Magazine published a QuickPanel on Women in Tech, featuring comments from Indi Young, Christina Wodtke, and Brenda Laurel, and me, I had dinner with a high ranking executive at a large well-known tech company. When the topic about women in tech came up, he declared, “I would love to hire women, if only I could find ones who are qualified.”
New design manager seeking advice
A former colleague, an amazing designer who now finds himself running a team of 18, writes me with questions about managing a design team. These questions might be relevant to many new to design management -- and there are a growing number of them now that more companies are investing in design talent.
Udacity seeks to solve our greatest education and employment challenges
It’s no secret that higher education as we know it today is not sustainable. The cost of going to college is only increasing, and the nation now has nearly a trillion dollars in college debt. And yet, the unemployment rate in the US is around 8%. People are paying sky high prices for college, only to not find a job.