Spotify Physicians spend more time documenting care than delivering it. Epic built the system that made that true, and Epic is the only organization with the scale and the data to fix it. This is how I would approach that redesign, and why the people currently doing it are solving the wrong problem first....
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Spotify The product that captured your users’ attention was not designed to serve them. It was designed to capture them. And most of the designers who built it never stopped to ask the difference. Mindful design is not a philosophy. It is a correction to a thirty-year design error, and the next wave of...
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Spotify Your product is illegal in more countries than you think. And the countries where it is not illegal yet are drafting the law right now. Accessibility compliance is no longer a regional concern, a niche audit, or a sprint ticket you defer to next quarter. It is a global market access condition, and...
Continue readingAn In-Depth Look at Zero-UI: Getting It Right
Spotify The idea of Zero-UI is not new. Getting it right is the hard part nobody warned you about. Most teams are not building Zero-UI. They are building screen-based experiences with voice commands bolted on and calling that a screenless future. The Idea That Predates All of Us Before Zero-UI had a name, it...
Continue readingWhy Creative Leaders Bog Down the Creative Process by Having to Put Their Stamp on Everything
Spotify The most dangerous person in your design organization is not the underperformer. It is the creative director who cannot let anything leave the room without their fingerprints on it. You hired a team of thinkers and built a system that makes them wait. The Approval Architecture Nobody Talks About There is a specific...
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Spotify Your best designer has not had an original idea in three weeks. Your meeting schedule is the reason, and your instinct to schedule a sync about it will make the problem worse. This is not a productivity complaint. This is a talent crisis hiding inside a calendar. The Numbers You Are Choosing to...
Continue readingUX Is Like Baking Bread
Spotify Anyone can follow a recipe. Very few people can bake bread. That distinction is the entire problem with how the industry is approaching the next wave of UX, and if you think those two sentences are about baking, you are already behind. The Recipe Is Not the Craft There is a specific kind...
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The Interface Is Not the Product Anymore Spotify The best UX of the next decade will not be seen. It will be felt, anticipated, and quietly handled before you ever reach for your phone. If your entire design practice still lives inside a screen, you are already behind. That is not a provocation. It...
Continue readingContinuous Inclusion
Spotify Inclusion is not a project phase. It is not a checkbox at the end of a sprint, a user testing session with five participants, or a WCAG audit before launch. It is a continuous act, and most design teams have never actually done it. The Snapshot Problem Here is how inclusion works in...
Continue readingCan We Get to Zero-UI or Is It Just Another Buzzword?
Spotify Every five years the design industry invents a new phrase, puts it on conference slides, and then quietly stops talking about it when the hard work becomes apparent. Zero-UI is either the most important design philosophy of the next decade or the most elegantly packaged way to avoid answering a genuinely difficult question....
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