Thank you Andy this collection of resources is super helpful! It's a pretty brash transition from going through a highly structured bootcamp to being thrown out into the design world and told "Ok now go learn everything else!"

An essay on the transfer of learning Waves, they’re hard to ride, and in the process of learning this demanding and often uncompromising activity, we can discover something extremely profound. — Gery Lopez, aka. Mr. Pipeline, Surfing and shaping legend Chess prodigy, former tai chi push hands world champion, Jiu…

And how I use it to learn language. — And once you understand that habits can change, you have the freedom and the responsibility to remake them. -Charles Duhigg The alarm was blaring. “Nope,” I thought, hitting the snooze button. What seemed like a second later it was going again. “Not happening.” Snooze. This happened two more times before…

Case Study: How I use learning design and UX design to defeat my enemies — My best designs have come from when I have a deep personal struggle with a problem. When I was younger, I had a speech impediment so bad that no one could understand what I was saying. …

The ultimate user journey — My mom was an interior designer, and if I do say so myself, a very good one. She was good not because she had the most creative designs or the best color combinations, she worked for the military so she used a lot of greens and beiges. What made her…

A quick and fun writing prompt to break the ice — If you had a time machine, would you go back in time or visit the future? Neither, I’d throw it away. The idea of time travel is terrifying to me. What is your favorite thing about your career? When I’m interviewing a user and I find out that they use a product completely differently than how I expected they would Would you rather have a home on the beach or in the mountains?

How studying UX, habit, and decision making has helped me simplify the process of becoming a better person. — I’ve never done well with New Year’s resolutions. Admittedly, part of this has to do with discipline, but a lot of it is that I just forget what my New Year’s resolutions are. They’re usually a list of 10 or more things I’d like to get done by the end…

What happened I was in Gordon Ramsay’s kitchen and he was telling me how to cook a chicken supreme with roasted vegetables (supreme is a fancy way to say breast…I didn’t know either). He told me to turn on the oven and salt the chicken breast. “What temperature?” I asked… He kept…

Most of us are stuck at home, and for good reason. The world’s gone mad. The grocery store looks like a doctor’s office. Many sectors of the economy have all but shut down. The overall mood is one of fear and uncertainty. If you are fortunate enough to have your health and your job…