I sincerely hope my writing makes your design work more difficult.

I hope I encourage you to push beyond what is comfortable and familiar in your work.

I hope these insights provide a foundation of confidence as you insert yourself into situations where no one thought to ask for your help.

I hope these frameworks, tools, and methods enable you to bring clarity and insight to ever bigger, messier, stickier, and more ambiguous challenges.

And I hope they stoke your bravery—to stick your hands into the muck and sculpt it into what you believe it should be.

And I hope you have fun doing it.

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In my writing, I will share and reflect on the tools and frameworks I use in my work and teach in the Master's program in Interaction Design at California College of the Arts. I’m grateful for the rich experiences I’ve had—both in school and throughout my career—that exposed me to these ideas, and I’m thrilled to pass them on. These are lessons that have proven durable and valuable for me, and I hope they will continue to be so through whatever change is on our horizon. 

I also write a much more entertaining substack about operating a semi-functional rock band called Cadmium.

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