How to use Flutter/Dart’s magical ways to convert JSON data into usable structures so that you can get unstuck — and get going. Why are you here? You have read tons of Medium posts and watched plenty of YouTube videos and still feel a little confused. Along the way, you found various ways to…

The full Resilience Tech Report 2022 is now up on the main site https://resiliencetech.report/ with a #notrack button displayed prominently as the first button you can press on the page. You can also catch a 10-minute summary of the entire report via my YouTube channel: Quick Highlights Design is when function…

Ahead of SXSW on March 11 I’m sharing the TOC and front page information to get a feel for what will appear in the report. Thanks for tuning in! —JM NEW (March 9)

Four Things That I’m Thinking About Computational Experiences The functional aspects of an experience are covered by considering speed (lightness) and ease-of-use (accessibility). The next level above is driven by values (ethics) and how instrumentation (i.e. being “dataful”) lets you serve the user best. This “L.E.A.D.” approach is a good enough approximation for the salient aspects of “design”…

I’ve tried to avoid SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) training for software product development in the past, but this time around I feel motivated to understand it better. Why? Because there are plenty of opponents to it on the Internet who’ve written terrific critiques, like the storied Marty Cagan: “I can’t imagine any of the strong tech product companies I know choosing to move to SAFe, and if for some reason they did, I’m pretty certain their top…

The word “antifragile” accurately captures a quality in systems that can get stronger when more stress is applied. The safety stack enables organizational antifragility. My “monthly” CX Briefing comes out more like once a year and it follows the same format of 4–3–2–1 as listed below. If you’d like to…