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, 2024RIGHT 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, 2024IN 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, 2017PEOPLE 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, 2017YOU 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, 2017THIS 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, 2017I'm curious about the connections between disciplines, the places where radically different ideas get yoked together to create something new.
I research, validate, and prioritize efforts so teams can focus on highest value, lowest complexity work. My background is in UX and product design.
Douglas Englebart and Vannevar Bush demonstrated that software can extend our minds. It's this spirit of invention that inspires me.