“Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.” Oscar Wilde Going to work everyday is something most of us do. Many people I know are not very happy with their jobs. …

This is part of my Lessons learned series. Maya Angelou had a great quote. “If things don’t work out, say ‘Thank you because something better is coming along.” In life, we know that there will be death and taxes. I would like to add rejection to that sentence because everyone…

Like mindfulness and meditation, the words self care have been increasing in the articles printed on health. In the last few days, there have been more than 3 published articles on self care by news organizations like the Huffington Post and Forbes to name a few. Self care is defined…

Have you ever been in a conversation and someone interrupts you and says, “yes, but”? This may automatically turn you off to what they have to say because it may be taken as a negation of your previous statement. In improv comedy, an actor is not allowed to say no…

During a workshop involving empathy mapping for people with visual impairments, a student reached out to her father who was colorblind to get some advice. He sent her the below message which reads, ‘I don’t know if this is something you’re doing, but this is something you and other graphics…

As designers, we are problem solvers. We must constantly observe, assess, and question how we can make things better in this world. Often problem solving involves doing research and testing. It is great to look at research and see previous patterns of behavior but those thing often times do not provide you with the information we need in order to solve the problem at hand. Laziness is nothing more than the habit…

Part of my Looking back, looking forward series In the spirit of looking back, on Saturday night I got the pleasure of listening to three great designers all over the age of 80. Hosted by the Guggenheim museum, the talked titled ‘The Consequence of Design: Ralph Caplan, Milton Glaser, and…

Part of my Looking back, looking forward series Janus the god of time has a two faces, one looking forward and one looking back. …

Bare feet on Kentucky Grass is one of the ways I get back to nature in the midst of the concrete jungle I live in. Yes, you can find Kentucky Grass in NYC if you look! The feeling I get when I put my bare feet in the grass is a feeling that words cannot describe. I could say it feels nice but that’s an understatement. When we get back to nature I feel we get back to our true selves. Not the people others want us to be, not the ones we imagined ourselves to be, just us, the perfect beings that we are. It’s the thinking that we humans do that makes the world an imperfect place. Nature is our equalizer.