Author: ryan_k65yhv

  • Remote Design Teams in the Age of Digital Nomads

    Surviving all that is ‘the year 2020’ has been a rollercoaster! Taking time around the holiday season to look back (and project forward), there’s been a lot of shifts in how we all live and work. People are still finding ways to travel, but now it’s in RVs or trips to remote rental properties. We…

  • Being OK with Low Ambition

    As a design leader, what do you do when you’re managing a designer that’s doesn’t have any big aspirations? Ever ask someone what their goals are and where they’d like to be and just get crickets?

  • Design Is How It Works

    I’m constantly reading, and I think you should be too. Reading design articles that come through my Twitter feed, are in email newsletters, or shared to me from friends are part of my weekly routine as a designer. I recently came across a great quote from Steve Jobs, via an interview, via a book quoting…

  • Design Thinking and Thought Workers

    Speaking with a new acquaintance (father of a kid from my son’s daycare) that’s a Mechanial Engineer (at his daughter’s birthday party), we went back and forth on the topic of design thinking. He and I both agreed that between 75-90% of our day is spent thinking about the best solution. The last 10-25% is…