KungPowThinking

The Author

I’m a very infrequent blogger, poor speller, a lover of most things geeky, an extremely opinionated online product professional, and I spend approximately 30% of my day online for no reason whatsoever.

Professionally, my experience and interests include web product management and development, usability, interaction design, user experience and social technology. I’ve been working in this business since 1999 and love what I do. I hope to bring some of that passion to every project I’m lucky enough to work on including this site.

I’m originally from Southern California, have a degree in Philosophy and Economics from Boston College, and am currently lost in NYC working with a team of ninjas who can build just about anything worth building.

The Site

So, what took so long? I’m a perfectionist who constantly struggles with the difference between good and good enough. Hopefully this site will be both. Please leave a comment or two on any post that you deem worthy and expect opinions on just about everything. Of course, my opinions are my own and don’t necessarily represent those of my company, coworkers or clients.

Oh yea. There are no ads on this site for two reasons:

1. There is no way on God’s green earth that there will ever be enough traffic to this site for me to make money on it
2. I have a job

Found At

• Eastmedia
• Boxes and Arrows
• IxDA
• LinkedIn
• Twitter
• My personalDNA Report
• Goodreads

Favorite Quote by Me

Elegant product design requires an understanding of people, the business requirements, and of what is actually possible. It amounts to creating products that are like professional athletes, products that make the extremely difficult look easy.

It ultimately takes a lot of work and some serious talent. Many companies and people don’t know how to build elegance. It brings to mind technology companies that focus too much on their frameworks or advertising agencies that focus too much on pixel-perfect design. Neither of which tends to have much empathy with the user.

Anyway, my goal is to build elegant products. The products that don’t make people think when they should be doing, make people think when they should be learning, compel them by relating to them, and simply work.