Blog
2026
2025
- ChatGPT talks too much and it’s ruining learning
- Conversation starters and the beauty of forgetting
- All your homework are belong to us
- Less chatbots, more layers, better relationships
- Calculators are not addictive
- Learn why things mean, not what
- Join my Lunch and Learn on the missed potential for learning with ChatGPT
- Can't ride the AI bicycle? AI companies blame you.
- AI companies think studying is just a dropdown menu away
- Complacency around AI job replacement is insanity
- Maybe we do need nutrition labels on software
2024
- Moments unfocused
- Moving beyond raised hands with technology
- How doctors handle uncertainty and what UX designers and educators can learn
- UX education that feels like you're at work
- When the Steps Don’t Match the Beat
- The Idea DJ method to unblock creativity
- Making “think twice” a tangible tool for learning
- The Magic of Students Giving Themselves Advice
- Using technology to break the learning styles myth
- From students seeking cheat codes to embracing dice rolls
- Can this tool make design class discussions richer?
- Maybe being in someone else's shoes should be required training
- Embracing problem-creator thinking in design education
- AI tutors aren't a silver bullet, nor should they be
- UX Portfolio Lessons: Timeless & Thoughtful Storytelling
- From Teacher Grading to Manager Feedback
- Generative, Personal, but not Artificial
- Looking the other direction to learn more deeply
- Planting seeds as a teaching mindset
- We often forget the cast and crew
- Focus on how you work with AI, not what it answers
- Navigating the Open Waters of an Early-Stage Product
- In my class, you surf alone and get feedback together
- 23 things I learned in 2023 about how we communicate
2023
- Intellectual Nutrition Labels for Generative AI Products
- How we learn is changing. Why am I worried?
- Simplicity's Double-Edged Sword in the Information Age
- Embracing the AI Mindshift: From Google to ChatGPT
- How AI highlights the flaws in grading
- I have been thinking about education for 15 years
- Positive negatives
- Sharing on social media sucks because we do it too much
- Improving marketplace UX by getting more users
- The challenge with ranting as comedy
2022
- How digital design canvases will evolve to better suit modern workflows
- The smiling moon
- My lost notebook
- Unfiltered design #2: Informal learning, futility, and standards—oh and I have a podcast now!
- Unfiltered design #1: Teaching design, Apple vs Figma, too many standards, and chess.
- Overcoming indecision
- Launching a weather revolution
- Why anyone can become a UX designer
- My Experience in Designing a Course in UX
2021
- People with Unconventional Backgrounds Can Find Success in UX
- An introduction to UX for non-designers
- I’m afraid of flying but I bike without a helmet
- Holding my breath
- Suboptimal creative release
- Time circa 2019
- The forgotten art of fun at work
- Google's new father-son ad will make you cringe
- She works on a park bench
- Working around Google's reign on education
- The Value of After-Class Journals
- Learning how to structure a virtual class
- The pitfalls of virtual workshops
- I watched a YouTube tutorial. Now what?
- Let go of anchoring bias to build more effective products
- 1,001 terms for improving AI won’t get us anywhere
- How Netflix's rating system is hurting our documentaries
- Adding a social layer across the web
- Keyword foraging: the key to better search tools
- We need more friction in our algorithms
- Personalization didn’t have to suck
- The ex-CEO of Waze was preaching to the startup choir
- Understand COVID media engagement with a simple mental model
- Crowdsourcing Opinions
- Reading about Creativity… Again
- I watched a YouTube tutorial. Now what?
2020
2019
- The need for reflective computing
- Giving flyers the right to choose
- She works on a park bench
- Our tech’s lack of context-awareness
- Education is about learning facilitation, not teaching
- Understanding the business model of your innovation
- Keep customers who find your online subscription too expensive with better UX
2018
- The loudness of the internet
- Simple questions about loving our work
- Focus today, grow tomorrow
- Computers are still merely tiny file cabinets
- The right thing to build
- A post-it a day, keeps the mediocrity away
- Extend your startup runway by moving to Montreal
- Rise of the technophilosopher
- On modern creativity and cross-pollination
- In the future, your degree won’t be from your university, but from your friend
- Learning and nuance in a digital context
- Classroom 3.0 is not online lectures, it’s decentralized blended learning communities
- Empower Learning Through Playing with Open Data
- Build your own training wheels for emotional intelligence development
- Getting tools and techniques is not the future of entrepreneurship training
- How to make friends in August
- The state of Speculative Supply
2017
- Unlearning is the next step after your university degree
- The Canadian entrepreneurial hustle
- Searching for the door knob museum
- How optimizing for every single thing can lead to ultimate sadness
- The trouble with assuming “innovation” is understood
- How we inspired organizational change with a one-hour service
- A class in user-centred design for engineers
- “Design” in Design Thinking is there to get your attention
- Your company vision is like a set of cards in your hand
- Trusting your Creativity
2016
- Introducing Speculative Supply
- Using details from conversations to enable further education
- Explaining and testing learning through speculation
- Like a piece of cake
- Tracing speculations to analyze thinking
- Deliberate speculation as a learning mechanic
- Stepping away from redesigning school
- A selfie was taken in virtual reality and no one seems to be bothered
- For the love of the glorious green apple
- You’re designing for change? Great, here’s 14¢!
- Distilling my views on education
- Two Visions for Radically Technological Schools
- Early musings on education
- Introducing Projects by Charlie
- Charlie’s IDP Final Project Journey
- Ascetic Aesthetic
- Doliio
- Fabulous Total Security Kit
- Negotiation is Messy
- News Globus
- Designing for Community at a Sports Park
- Ultimatums That Will Never Be Fulfilled
- The pen cap that dreamt of becoming a pen
- A potential glimpse of the future. Are you excited?