Tag Archives: design

Joining Google

8 Jun 2011 – 9:10

My life has been adrift in adventures over the last few months since I left my startup. It’s been wonderful, fulfilling, and challenging. I took on my first info viz project with a client; ran a few gamestorming workshops; dabbled in iOS design…and organized two conferences: SketchCamp (May 28, 2011) and Overlap (coming up this [...]

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Time for something new — but what?

10 Mar 2011 – 9:56

It’s with mixed emotions that I’m announcing my departure from the startup I’ve been working at since last August. I’m going to keep this post brief and follow up with a longer, more thoughtful post on why I left after the SxSW craze dies down. In short, my startup was no longer a place where [...]

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Startups, products, and pivots. Oh my!

17 Jan 2011 – 9:37

I’m not sure how old our company is officially. Tim was working on the seeds of the idea in July 2010. I remember this because I was “moonlighting” with them once a week after work (at an apartment in Pacific Heights), helping with design, strategy, and some early research into the idea. I joined him [...]

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Reflections on the betacup design challenge

16 Jun 2010 – 8:08

I kinda can’t believe how far we’ve come with the betacup project. One year ago, I was at Overlap ’09 where I met Toby Daniels and his craaaazy idea to change the way we drink coffee. I hopped on board, brainstormed at Overlap, wrote a little blog post…and suddenly here we are today, announcing the [...]

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A month of comics

26 May 2010 – 22:30

This post is long overdue, but it has been a busy few months! In April 2010 I took on a pledge with my coworker, Cyd Harrell, to draw 10 comics if she would write 10 poems! This was pretty much impossible given our workload, but we both managed to get 4 out. Not terrible, and [...]

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