Tag: Nokia

  • A Culture of Wanderers

    “Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.” –John Dewey Presently, it will be a year since I started working at Nokia. Since starting, I have been involved in several back-to-back projects with the usual short time frames and high demands. If ever ideas began to…

  • Follow Your Users on Twitter

    Are you a designer who checks Twitter incessantly (or at least occasionally) and also wants daily insights into the thoughts and desires of the people who use the products and services you design for? Then perhaps you should start following your users on Twitter. As a still relatively new Nokia designer, and having little experience…

  • Nokia Design SF

    I haven’t really said much about the Nokia Design team that I’m part of here in San Francisco, but here’s the whole lot of us! From left to right: me, Raphael Grignani, Rita Parada, and Carrie Chan. Jan Chipchase took this photo. Nokia Design has offices in Helsinki, London, and Los Angeles. Our office kicked…

  • Design Thinking Hiatus

    Obviously, I have not been writing much recently. There are a number of reasons for this. First, I needed a break from all the design thinking to remember how to function with the rest of the humans. It seems they don’t often talk about design or know what I’m talking about. Second, I’ve had a…

  • Going to Nokia

    I am happy to announce that I will be joining Nokia at their new design office in San Francisco this August. The group is headed by Raphael Grignani, who inspired me with this response when I asked him what he would expect from me. “I expect you to devise and execute with the project team…