Thinking Design

MARCH 3, 2023

Shirley Chisholm (1924-2005) “Unbought and Unbossed,” the first black woman elected to congress, the first woman to run for POTUS in 1972, Shirley Chisholm dedicated her life to advocating for civil and women’s rights. Her actual time of 72 days, 6 hours, and 11 minutes established a women’s record.

Travel 52

Travel Photography Design Strategy Digital 52

Azure Magazine

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

In this lecture, she speaks about designing and building in the Senegalese context, with references to its climate, culture, traditions and unique “concrete modernity.” Mboup will address working with biomaterials, passive design strategies, her various cultural projects, and her research and collaborations.

Architecture 106

Architecture Arts and Crafts Publication Presentation 106

UX Collective

MAY 10, 2023

My Director of Product Management handed me Steve Blank’s Four Steps to the Epiphany (2005) in 2011 as the bible for customer work — customer discovery, customer validation, customer creation, customer building. Rigor didn’t matter so much as contact and baseline exposure to context. We needed customers and we needed insights.

Internet and Software Development 103

Internet and Software Development Product Management Production Marketing 103

UX Collective

DECEMBER 30, 2021

By 2005 HBO had different internal groups looking into direct-to-consumer solutions. One of the groups partnered with IDEO (of Design Thinking fame), which presented a future vision that included subscribers watching HBO on mobile devices. the cable companies wouldn’t allow it, they wouldn’t even share subscribers’ contact details.

Production 83

Production Entertainment Networking Presentation 83

UX Collective

SEPTEMBER 11, 2021

Two years earlier, in 2005, while I was at frog, Blockbuster came to us and wanted to enhance their online presence and the race to parity was their priority. This was very much a service design strategy, but Blockbuster wasn’t prepared to implement this deep a revision. Playing catch-up can be exhausting.

Presentation 85

Presentation Marketing Marketing Design Strategy 85

UX Collective

JULY 16, 2023

I met him and his partner John Boiler first at a meeting for Xbox, a client his agency 72andsunny and AKQA that I was working for shared from 2005 or 2006 for multiple years. An industrial designer by trade, he spoke so eloquently in meetings about design, strategy, and business and I was always in awe.

Agency 95

Agency Client Brand Branding 95

UX Collective

MARCH 11, 2024

The term “ Umarell ” was coined in 2005, and in 2015, the Bologna city council’s “consultative commission for the naming of street” approved the naming of a public square to Piazzetta degli Umarells in recognition of the local fame of the concept — noting with conscious irony that the square was under construction at the time.

Self-employed 106

Self-employed Consulting Production Magazine 106