When: Spring/Summer 2023 Problem space: Federal requirements for digital transformation, including 2018’s 21st Century IDEA Act, called for a specific focus on improving what it is like to be a public and internal user of federal digital systems, e.g. the customer experience [CX]. In order to improve something, it must be measurable, measured, and meaning… Continue reading Case study: Starting a CX Program at a federal agency
Category: Strategy
The magic of prototyping
In conversation with design thinking Professor and agile shop Director of Staff Maggie Lewis, I go off on prototyping and why we all should be doing it. Three words: learn by doing.
Case study: Solving problems using experience journeys
A case study about solving business problems by using an experience journey framework, instead of an experience moment lens / republished on Medium. What’s the difference between a moment and a journey? A moment happens briefly, whereas a journey is a collection of moments creating the story of an overall experience. You remember moments – yet… Continue reading Case study: Solving problems using experience journeys
What I Learned Designing a CX Listening Program
As I wrap up a role in which developed a Customer Experience [CX] data listening program, I wanted to share a few of the learnings surfacing as I write a playbook on my exit. Firstly, the purpose of a CX program is to get evidence to inform meaningful enhancements to digital and physical experiences. We… Continue reading What I Learned Designing a CX Listening Program
Strategic Design, 2011 – 2024
Values-first Redesign of Financial Services for a Social Justice Fiscal Sponsor
Getting and managing grants is a key part of sustainability for small orgs and projects. If the money’s not coming, it’s over. But what about when the money IS coming but you‘re not certain how to manage it? What about when you are making money and you realize it requires all new skills? Over the last… Continue reading Values-first Redesign of Financial Services for a Social Justice Fiscal Sponsor
Portfolio Highlights, 2010-2019
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How I use speculative games to test design-driven innovation
This article first appeared in Prototypr, Jan 2019 Innovation requires engagement in the problems of reality as well as a willingness to imagine the delights and pitfalls of possible futures. As makers and designers, we’re not usually up against a lack of problems to solve: we’re up against limits on resources and limits to what… Continue reading How I use speculative games to test design-driven innovation
Be a Problem-Finding Wizard
~ or, at least, stop solving the wrong problem and wasting your time!~ Question: Modern life. Adulting. Dayjobs. Projects, Clients, Stakeholders. Our families. Vacations. Money … Which one of these doesn’t have problems? Answer: they ALL do, sadly. Our challenge is to identify WHICH problem to work on next with our precious, limited time. That’s… Continue reading Be a Problem-Finding Wizard
Civic participation, digital infrastructure, and why the US is behind
The one simple thing that US digital infrastructure can’t do to encourage civic participation: Share UIDs Those who know me appreciate that I like to get to the bottom of things if I think it’ll help solve a problem. There’s a reason – logical or otherwise – why things are the way they are. While technology… Continue reading Civic participation, digital infrastructure, and why the US is behind