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Notes and ideas about creativity, technology, and design

The browser project
He said "All you have to do now is just write the code"

MORTON GREETED ME with a conspiratorial smile, which was odd because we had just met. He was the C-level executive of a company, and I was just some...

Stefan Smagula, Dec 8, 2024
Distribution
What I learned from the first browser I worked on

RIGHT BEFORE THE DOT COM boom blossomed into peak irrational exuberance I wrote my master’s degree thesis called “The Almost Chosen Ones” about technogical anxiety and American religions....

Stefan Smagula, Nov 30, 2024
Lard and felt
What Joseph Beuys can teach product managers and designers

IN AN EARLIER post, I wrote about the connections between research, product management, user experience design, product design, and prototyping. This post expands on the same theme: the...

Stefan Smagula, Oct 13, 2017
Half lion, half mini schnauzer
Are you product manager or designer?

PEOPLE ASK are you a product designer, a UX person, a researcher, a prototyper, or a product manager? Here’s how I answer. For many years I’ve been designing...

Stefan Smagula, Oct 13, 2017
Incantations
Making this site

YOU WILL FIND this post in your _posts directory, if you’re managing a Jekyll site. Jekyll is a static site generator, written in Ruby. Here’s how it works:...

Stefan Smagula, Apr 2, 2017
Do you read me, HAL?
Hello world

THIS STUB IS standing in for an article that I plan to write about my perspective on agile, iterative product management and design, having seen these methods in...

Stefan Smagula, Apr 1, 2017
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To 'Augment Human Intelligence'

My goal is to help create software that extends our hands and minds and improves people's lives

Curious about the world

I'm curious about the connections between disciplines, the places where radically different ideas get yoked together to create something new.

Product management and design

I research, validate, and prioritize efforts so teams can focus on highest value, lowest complexity work. My background is in UX and product design.

Spirit of invention

Douglas Englebart and Vannevar Bush demonstrated that software can extend our minds. It's this spirit of invention that inspires me.

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