Something corporate

Another timely update on this side of the house: as of this spring, I’m now a UX director for design engineering (aka front-end web development - good old HTML, CSS, and JavaScript) at a very large company headquartered in Rhode Island. It’s my first corporate gig! I’m back in an office most days of the week. And, I’m leading a team again after a relatively restful few years as an individual contributor. I’ve enjoyed re-activating my people-manager neurons and will likely have something more to say about that at a later time. Occasionally asked questions What’s this gig? My team builds, maintains and promotes active use of our design system, and our devs serve as front-end code experts within the company - they write the code that customers interact with directly when they use our websites. It feels like a natural next step for me after many years leading UX and web development at an academic library, then a few years working in design and design systems governance, and really…