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A working record of the thinking behind the work — click through to read any piece in full where it lives.

Design as Strategic Capability

From Products to Services: Rethinking Design in a Connected World ↗

Great products still fail without service design — and why keeping Product Designers out of strategy conversations is a costly mistake.

The Paradox of Measuring Design Impact ↗

We reward fixing problems far more than preventing them. That bias is exactly why organizations undervalue design.

Leadership & Culture

How Sun Life's Catalyst Program Empowers Emerging Design Talent ↗

Why we built an in-house leadership program for designers instead of buying one off the shelf — and what six months of facilitation, feedback, and storytelling skills actually changes.

The Hardest Part of Transforming a Customer Experience ↗

The customer-facing change is the easy part — it's the only part that gets a press release. The real work happens upstream, in org charts, funding models, and incentive structures that were never built to reward prevention.

Systems Thinking, AI & Public Impact

Service Design, Systems Thinking & AI ↗

Service design's real value to an established organization isn't a nicer experience — it's risk mitigation. AI accelerates the analysis, but it still can't see the whole system for you; someone still has to map it first.

City of Toronto: 2022 Council Briefing on Customer Experience ↗

Coordinating customer experience across 45 city divisions, on a public budget, under public accountability, is more organizationally sophisticated than it gets credit for — and it's a systems problem, not a UI one.

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