On 29 January 2019 I saw Jared Spool talk on “The Evolution of a New UX Design Revolution” — it was pretty inspiring. I’m pretty sure my sketchnotes are not terribly comprehensible. Luckily there’s video of another time he gave the talk on video. Last time I saw @jmspool speak was at @uxcampdc in Washington…

Final #sketchnotes on https://t.co/KXC09LOmyN presentation on Innovation and Design Thinking Talk #PCampSd18 @ProductCampSD pic.twitter.com/1qj6ylmkuh — Joe Crawford (@artlung) October 20, 2018 Having fun learning & sketchnoting Sean Van Tyne’s talk on Innovation and Design Thinking @ProductCampSD #PCampSD18 #sketchnotes pic.twitter.com/FtMrlPPRYp — Joe Crawford (@artlung) October 20, 2018

My #sketchnotes: "Identifying & prioritizing issues w/yr #userinterface"—@arthur_ux @SDStartupWeek #sketchnote #ux pic.twitter.com/4EypIUKfW9 — Joe Crawford (@artlung) June 21, 2017

Wonderful talk by @CeliaHodent at @Qualcomm tonight hosted by @UXSpeakeasy. My #sketchnotes here attached! pic.twitter.com/TMKhlZZo87 — Joe Crawford (@artlung) November 2, 2018

From February 7 this year: Very fun rough prototyping exercise at #AdvMfgExpo with @design_concepts & other attendees including @starblade68 ! Very fun #UX #industrialdesign #sketchnotes

A transcript from my radio appearance on The Lounge on KPBS from July 2002. It’s all about blogging!

This time of year is hard. Clicking through gets me to a grid of easily purchased items under the headline: “Choose a Gift for Phyllis.” Social media, Facebook, knows who my mother is. It’s smart enough to know that. And in spite of the fact that she died in October, 2010, I can’t bear, yet,…

In January of 2011, more than a year ago now, I attended UXCampDC at the German Cultural Center, just a mile from The White House. Me and my family were still pretty raw from my Mom’s death in October, but it was great to get out and do something. My sister drove me to the…

One thing I’ve really come to enjoy is the process of wireframing. Wireframing is low-fi design for a digital product. I do it for websites and apps. It’s a lot of fun. The tool I generally use is Balsamiq Mockups, which runs on Mac or Windows. I’m doing some housekeeping, so here’s a wireframe from…

Although, the user appears to be disappointed in the results of using this skeumorphic* interface.

Boxes and Arrows, a magazing about Information Architecture and User Experience, has launched. I’ll be checking it out.