Cranking the engine back up

I think I'm going to maybe do some blogging again? I've always had trouble with writing in the blog because I feel like it should be about UX. I

Creating (more) music during the pandemic

I suppose I was fortunate, really. My band's drummer, who also wrote maybe 70% of the guitar riffs, finished his PhD and left the country to go work in Switzerland. Writing

Can UX be remote?

Jakob Nielsen answers a question that's on a lot of people's minds right now. Weird times we're living in.

Pedal bored

Like any mediocre guitarist, I spend a lot of time rethinking my tone and my pedalboard. Like any experimental musician who likes to turn guitars into other sounds, I spend a lot of

When you "have" to do a focus group

Most UX researchers will parrot the line that focus groups are terrible, and even if they are parroting, they're right. Erika Hall, in Just Enough Research, calls focus groups "research