The 2024 Newsletter Plan
The plan for 2024's newsletter and writing
All the Blog Posts (or search by Tag)
These are all the blog posts I've written, starting from around 2017 til now. A lot of the writing took place between 2019 and the end of 2021, when I was writing a weekly essay newsletter called Diverge Weekly, as well as writing quite a few UX research related blogs for my startup, Knowsi
The 2024 Newsletter Plan
The plan for 2024's newsletter and writing
Blocking the Entrance to the Rabbit Hole
A bit of a meandering path down the mechanical keyboard and alternative layout rabbit hole, and back out again.
Next Steps for Diverge
An Old Kind of New
Renewing Spaces
Skill Spalling
Learning with Pressure, Time, and Surface Area
Being a Good Amateur
Avoiding Kits
Reconsidering the language and tools of Getting Started
Homeric Design Strategy
Kitbashing Experience
Putting our different experiences together to make something new
Functional Immersion
Visceral Control
Peripherals
Automating Research Recruiting
How to think about and implementation automation in a user research recruiting process.
Thinking through Research Automation
Automation and orchestration in research ops
Zombie Nonprofits
Migration and Circumstance
Designers in the Military
A first-hand account of working with military professionals and design
Bootstrapping Infrastructure in the Public Interest
Professional Warning People
A quick look at strategic warning intelligence and the professional Cassandra
Breathing In and Out, or Two Approaches to Design Research
Craft, Catalyst, and Expertise
Considering craft-based disciplines and catalyzing expertise
Covid Anxiety: A Foresight Game
A serious game about making serious decisions in a crisis
Legibility in Design
Hidden in the Shallows
Reconstructive Design Process
Consciously metabolizing past design work to create something new
Memory Toolkits
Wearing Technology
Power and Fantasy — Hamcus SS21
War against Stagnation
The Anatomy of a Research Recruitment Email
The Problem with Validity
The Decay of Digital Things
A book chapter I wrote on how internet connected objects decay
Reflexive Reflective
Designing Participant Experiences
Thinking about research operations from a service design lens
Some Design Research Principles
All Quiet on the Productivity Front
Sponge Cycles
Identify and define the cycles where you absorb and become
Speculative Surplus
Full Hamcus: Finding the Spark in Sci-fi Workwear
Platform Insurrection
Reflecting on 2020
Designing trust relationships in research with Knowsi
Coordinating global cities research Knowsi case study
Diverge Weekly Issue 13 The Endemic Issue
Diverge Weekly Issue 12 The Constrained Issue
Diverge Weekly Issue 11 The Waiting Issue
Diverge Weekly Issue 10 The Flattened Issue
Diverge Weekly Issue 9 The Dependencies Issue
Diverge Weekly Issue 8 The Just Tired Issue
Diverge Weekly Issue 7 The Gradual Opening Issue
Diverge Weekly Issue 6 The Captured Issue
Diverge Weekly Issue 5 The First Reflection Issue
Diverge Weekly Issue 4 The Cycles Issue
Diverge Weekly Issue 3 The Uncertainty Issue
Diverge Weekly Issue 2 The Global Pandemic Issue
Diverge Weekly Issue 1 - The Afghan Peace Talk Issue
On Remote Work and the Coronavirus
Diverge Weekly Issue 0 - The Prototype
Failing States Fail Terrorists Too
Import your Audible Library to Goodreads
A More Intentional Wardrobe
Reflecting on 2019
The Design Researcher’s Everyday Carry
Planning your Design Research Trip
Better Notes for Design Research
Exporting PDFs with Next JS
How to Design the Future of Food in 4 Hours
HMW How Might We?
Building Co-operative Design Briefs
Benadryl and Parachord
Bureaucratic Mysteries
A Spotter’s Guide to Social Product Ventures
Business Model Canvas-like tools for critiquing social enterprises building software