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  • Creating a Financial Foundation for Shared Infrastructure

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    Over a decade ago, I was one of the founding members of the Dallas Makerspace. My major contribution was designing the financial models that allowed the group to have a solid financial footing for renting it’s first dedicated space. The other founders were more involved in all the growing pains of starting an organization like…

  • Comparing Engineering and Design

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    In an earlier post I wrote about the similarities between engineering and design. After discussing the concepts with a few engineers and designers, I thought it would be helpful to explore the differences between the two disciplines. Known solution versus unknown solution In the introductory chapter of Designing Your Life, the authors point out the…

  • Building a small team

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    When starting a new venture, your team is often small due to timing, budget, or uncertainty. Growing a team from a small starting point takes careful thought about both the current needs and the future. When only a handful of people are on the team, each hire has a dramatic increase in the communication costs…

  • The Overlap of Engineering and UX Design

    The Overlap of Engineering and UX Design

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    While simultaneously working in software engineering and completing my masters degree in HCDE, I started to notice a few overlaps in both the practice and conceptualization of engineering and design. Both involve solving the problem of what to build. Both rely on a set of heuristics built by experience in the individual practitioners. Both are…