[TMA] Empty Platitudes and a Focus on Skills, not Roles
From the sofa of Peter Merholz– This will likely be the last Merholz Agenda for the year. First though, a highly chaotic literal pie chart, which while...
[TMA] AI Will Widen the Design Chasm
From the sofa of Peter Merholz… Design, AI, and The Widening Gap between Savvy and Clueless My ~10 minute take combining the technology adoption curve (think...
[TMA] Design Leadership Themes, and upcoming event
I spent this past week in London, England, attending the the “Design Leaders+” conference and teaching my Design Leadership Fundamentals masterclass. On...
[TMA] Design maturity and the laziness of 'best practices'
From the sofa of Peter Merholz— We start with Andy Budd’s understandable frustration with “design maturity” as an objective in an of itself, instead tasking...
[TMA] Design Thinking Isn't Dead
From The Sofa of Peter Merholz— This past week, I spoke at Re:Imagine Retail, an “immersive experience creation” event internal to Sam’s Club. The...
"Design" is too damn big, and my most-cited
From the sofa of Peter Merholz— “Design” is too damn big Many, perhaps most, designers and design leaders are experiencing some kind of struggle, and as I...
Toward a new org design for UX and PM
30 to 50, but it’s not feral hogs On the latest Finding Our Way, Jesse and I talk to product development interrogator John Cutler, in what proved to be...
'What's Next' for Design Leaders
A theme for my work for the back half of this year is “what’s next” for design leaders. It started with podcast episode The Phase Shift, where Jesse and I...
Welcome to The Merholz Agenda
I’m excited to present the first issue of The Merholz Agenda, my (semi-)weekly newsletter where I share my perspective on matters of UX/Design leadership and...