Reflections
Navigating the Open Waters of an Early-Stage Product
Use product prototypes like tangible questions to quell your doubts
Education
A note on the vibes of my 2024 UX class
Reflections
Talking is exciting, infuriating, and wonderfully human. As an extrovert and a teacher, I think a lot about communication and how we can make it more enjoyable, intentional, and effective. Here’s a list of 23 observations I made during the tens of thousands of conversations I had in 2023.
Algorithms
If a generative AI had a nutrition label that said "100 brain calories per ChatGPT response", would that change how you use it? Nutrition could serve as a metaphor to understand why taking a tempered approach with generative AI might be important for our intellectual health. For starters,
Education
In the storm of issues affecting education, finding the small wins could be the only way to keep the energy needed to progress.
Algorithms
The Challenges of Oversimplification in Modern Education and Technology
Mental Models
Exploring the evolution of information access, decision-making, and society's acceptance of more authoritative answers
Education
ChatGPT didn't break education but it's a tempting scapegoat for lazy educators.
Education
The other day I was digging through some notebooks in my drawer, and I realized how many of them had notes about education. Each page I flipped through warped my sense of time passing. Though some of them were 10 years old, the notes felt like they were written yesterday.
Algorithms
Discovering content in the modern world is strangely beautiful and terrible
Reflections on how learning and creativity are shaped by technology and our interactions with it.
I had a chilling thought yesterday about the effects of excessive exposure to everyone's thoughts online: It's easy to mock the excited posts of people celebrating new jobs and enjoying a small moment of victory in an otherwise difficult life. I used to dedicate my entire
Finding a performance voice when battling with my natural tendencies.
Barcelona was hot and humid beyond what we could tolerate, but walking around the beautiful city, visiting friends and eating delicious food made it worth it. At least it did for the first week and a half. In addition to the recommendations curated by one of our generous friends, we
Memory, misfortune, and subconscious messages.
Sometimes the word "design" is so heavily associated with just tips and tricks and at some point that gets stale. Good design can only come if our sources of inspiration are broad! So here goes… Informally formal Not only in learning but in work as well, there is
Writing has always been about learning for me. I've started posting regularly on LinkedIn using articles I read as launchpads for my own thoughts. This way of making connections is a great way to digest the torrent of information I'm bombarded with on a daily basis.
A story about pursuing an entrepreneurial career in design
I'm excited to announce the project that I've quit my job for: WeathAR. With WeathAR, all you have to do it point your camera at the sky and the on-board AI chip in your phone will analyze it and tell you what the conditions are. Together
How unconventional backgrounds and non-traditional work experience lend themselves to a career in UX
How designing a course about user experience is very similar to my job as a UX designer
How to take a non-traditional path to a career in UX
A talk at Concordia University explaining what UX is and what it takes to start building a career in this field