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I Broke Up with Design, But Now We’re Getting Back Together
SXSW is in March 2021 and so the annual CX.Report is coming soon …
I seem to have drifted away from the space of design in the last few years.
That became particularly obvious to me when I bumped into a collection of my old “design-isms” over on my main site, design.co. There’s a list of my design tweets from the early days of Twitter, before anybody really cared about Twitter too much.
Back in the 00s, there weren’t a lot of @people on Twitter, so it was a productive karaoke mike for me to test out ideas in what I felt was a safe place. But it’s changed as a place to publicly experiment, and for me to think out loud about design. In an unrelated tandem, my curiosities shifted from design to product management, which led me to launch a blog in that vein, maeda.pm, and yet another blog, maeda.dev, to reach backwards into my engineering past. The net result is that today I feel thoroughly uncomfortable, and that’s not just because I bought a lot of expensive domain names to manage my own identity crisis.
Yet at the same time I don’t feel bad at all because the journey has led me across many fields of interest, and I feel better now for having taken it. There’s a certain sense of equilibrium that one can feel when they…
