Author: Brian Dys
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Reading List: Week 1, January 2021
Revolutions sometimes change the world to the better. Most often, however, it is better to evolve an existing design rather than throwing it away.W3C
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Reading List: Week 5, December 2020
Sure, you might be able to do the mundane aspects of your job, but you’re better off hiring someone else to do it so you can concentrate on your more important value: thinking creatively and strategically about your product and company’s future.Scott Belsky
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Reading List: Week 4, December 2020
Wesley Snipes on art, excellence and life after prison: ‘I hope I came out a better person’
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Reading List: Week 3, December 2020
Every human being is a miracle, and your superior in some way.David Brooks
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Extract and carry on
Spent this Friday afternoon combing my work inbox — taking notes and flagging important emails that I will take on at the start of 2021. Most of my work that involves team management are already churned in Figma. In other words, I don’t worry about forgetting everything behind because I’ve already managed to extract the…
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Reading List: Week 2, December 2020
The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.Daniel J. Boorstin
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Reading List: Week 1, December 2020
Designed to Deceive: Do These People Look Real to You? Is this humility or hubris? Do we place too little value in human intelligence — or do we overrate it, assuming we are so smart that we can create things smarter still? Kashmir Hill and Jeremy White The days are long but the decades are…
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UX Workshop with Elizabeth Baylor – Day 1
The design team at PayMaya had the opportunity to have a two-day workshop with Elizabeth Baylor—a senior UX researcher at Google. Day 1 topics covered the following: UX Process Usability and Usefulness Generative and Confirmatory Research The Curse of Knowledge We assume that others think like we do but that is only an assumptions. Here…
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Reading List: Week 4, November 2020
The last week of November was Jaycelle’s birthday week so we were focused on preparations and celebrations. I didn’t really get to read a lot of stuff this week (in fact, I only got one). To Create a Better Society Yes, we need to go into communities. But we should be looking to find the…