Category: Spreadsheets

  • Time to Sort the Chaos. Again.

    Time to Sort the Chaos. Again.

    The role of the product designer is evolving fast. Faster than you can say, “fastnacht”. Thanks to AI, parts of the work that used to define a designer’s role are being automated away, leaving many designers confused and lost. Early-career designers, in particular, are facing growing uncertainty. Landing a job in UX or product design…

  • Before Benny Built a Spaceship, Did He Start With A Spreadsheet?

    Before Benny Built a Spaceship, Did He Start With A Spreadsheet?

    I work with real-life Bennys. Benny is a character from the 2014 LEGO movie. He is a Master Builder of spaceships: “I felt so seen,” is the response to Benny from many of my NASA aerospace systems engineer co-workers. Yep, Benny and the rocket engineers I work with share an addictive enthusiasm for building spacecrafts.…

  • Sort the Chaos.

    Sort the Chaos.

    A Proven Process for Strengthening Stakeholder Relationships Sort the Chaos. It’s a term I use to describe my research and design process. This process happens at the beginning of a project, in the Discovery Phase. At this time, I don’t know much about the project, other than the goal. I start by collecting All the…