After 6 months of investing heavily into AI-driven design (e.g. Agentic Design), I thought this article would serve as a help for others and benchmark for myself for end of year reflection. What It Looks Like Right Now My previous workflow was coordinating with both Project Managers (PM), Stakeholders, Users, other Designers and Devs; taking […]
If you’ve ever come across a Bible, there’s a very good chance you’ve also seen a very common design pattern within it – the red letters of Jesus. And yes, it may surprise you that even our modern Bibles today rely on critical design systems such as: Localization (original languages were Greek, Hebrew, Aramaic), Punctuation, […]
If you’ve paying any sort of attention to the AI ecosystem, you’ve probably heard about MCPs a whole bunch (essentially AI’s version of APIs). But more recently, there’s also this new open standard by Anthropic around Agent Skills. I found this video very helpful as an explainer. As stated in the account on GitHub, it […]
Man, its been some time. Looking to start the blog up again this year, have a bunch of ideas & articles in the queue for 2026. One thing I really want to begin emphasizing more is the relationship of design to spirituality, and by that I mean Christianity. As a deeply committed Christian, its a […]
If you didn’t know, I work over at Pega. Jill Power (Sr PM for Accessibility), Megha Patangi (Sr Accessibility Specialist, IAAP / Section 508 certified), and myself just kicked off a new podcast over on Spotify about accessibility and UX. There are already two episodes: one about the spirit and letter of WCAG and another […]
Many words slow learning.
Just before the 2022 Christmas break I had a chance to chat with the lovely people over at AXSChat. We covered all sorts of topics ranging from growing accessibility organically within an organization, the importance of ATAG in authoring apps, educational content, and much more! Resource links Watch on Vimeo Listen to the podcast Follow […]
Trying to gauge if a design you’ve worked on tests successfully can be stressful. What do you track, listen to, measure, and so on to see if you’ve improved? But did you know that there are battle-tested standardized usability question systems that tie directly to business value benchmarks like NPS (Net Promoter Score)? So how […]
Learning how to use assistive tech can be a real pain, especially when your tools are between mixed OSes. Here are a few quick tips on getting set up fast. What you’ll need First, let’s talk about the tooling you’ll need to test well across the most common assistive technologies and browsers. It’s important to […]
Often when approaching a design for a new app or website, it’s a pretty ‘me’ focused experience. What do I think looks good, what will sell the most, and so on. And you know what, that can be fine as a creator, drawing others into what I feel would be awesome. And people want that. […]
