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Sep 9, 2025
and Lessons from Disneyland 🎢
9 min read
Sep 2, 2025
Shadow a student. Pay for their input. Simple practices to move from slogans to student-centered design.
Aug 26, 2025
Why the best innovation starts with listening
6 min read
Aug 19, 2025
Why it matters: One of the most powerful aspects of design is the permission to work in draft and build before you feel ready. That’s where the magic of prototyping comes in. You’re not building to be “done.” You’re building with the intention of learning, of inviting feedback, of finding out what you don’t yet know. It’s as much about the exercise of trying to make an idea real—forcing it out of the cloud in your head—so you and others can see it, react to it, reshape it. And in that moment, you’re already learning.
10 min read
Aug 12, 2025
How 40+ people at USC’s Career Center turned a retreat into a launchpad for student-centered problem solving
Aug 5, 2025
We all want to be seen while we drive change
Jul 29, 2025
Reflections on feedback, pressure tests, and the path from paper to practice.
8 min read
Jul 22, 2025
What San Diego’s World Design Capital Year Revealed About the Power of Design
Jul 15, 2025
Lessons on empathy, problem solving, and agency from Gen Z designers in the making
11 min read
Jul 8, 2025
If you only read (or listen to) one post all year, this is the best way to catch up on what I’ve been working on so far
13 min read
Jul 1, 2025
Because empathy is the starting line for action
7 min read
Jun 24, 2025
Why the future of work depends on staying deeply human in an AI-driven world
