What a Designer taught me about Experience

2 What a Designer taught me about Experience

What if experience is not about what you know? Recently, I sat down with Industrial Designer Philippe Guichard for a conversation on On Experience. Given I’m a former architect, we naturally talked about design and creativity. Plus, we talked about ego, failure, culture and comic books. But the biggest insight I took away wasn’t really about design […]

Why Helping Begins With Seeing – with Linda Gidlund

What Good Helpers Notice with Linda Gidlund

Most of us think helping is about having the right answers. We admire people who always seem to know what to say, what advice to give or how to solve a problem. But after talking with Linda Gidlund, I’m no longer convinced that’s where helping begins. Why I invited Linda Gidlund Linda was one of […]

What Designers Notice with Philippe Guichard

What Designers Notice with Philippe Guichard

What do designers notice that other people miss? When Industrial Designer Philippe Guichard walks into a room, he isn’t looking at the paintings on the wall. He’s looking at the lights, the switches, the chairs, the proportions… In this excerpt from On Experience, we explore how years of experience reshape attention itself. Because expertise isn’t […]