Here's a pernicious loop: A Hot New Thing™ comes alongExperts™ tout it as the silver bulletTeams ask too much of itHot New Thing™ crumples under the weight of unwarranted expectationsThink pieces abound, announcing the death of Hot New Thing™Hot New Thing™ becomes a Cold Dead Failure™ Design systems. Agile. Design thinking. Design Sprints. MVPs. And so on. We tend to blame a methodology, externality, or technology rather than examine our own contribution to dysfunction. [The topic deserves a ...
Occasional ObservationsMay 5