Wil Nichols-Higgins

Director of Design at Zello

  1. April 2025

    1. 24 Bad Tastes
      24 Side-stepping the 'why bother?' of individual consumer choice.
    2. 20 Divine Losers
      20 “If your heart is breaking right now, it means you still have a heart.”
    3. 08 Diligence
      • Case Study
      08 Way back when everyone and their dog were designing GTD apps, a friend and I explored our own functionally minimally and visually rich task list.
    4. 02 Remembering Alex Rogahn
      02 Today I learned that a childhood friend committed suicide in 2019.

  2. March

    1. 29 Elle on AI Art
      • Link
      29 “people want to harness the pureness of miyazaki's vision for their own purposes without having to go through the empathic study that miyazaki goes through to hone his style, thereby completely missing the point of what makes it good”

  3. February

    1. 11 Ed Zitron on Masculinity
      • Link
      11 “True masculinity... it’s a sense of responsibility for both oneself and others and the things that we do, and finding strength in supporting and uplifting those close to you. And loving more, and caring more for people.” - 23:24-23:42
    2. 10 Liège Waffles
      • Recipe
      10 I took part of Belgium with me.
    3. 06 Practical Performativity
      06 Sometimes it’s a good thing.

  4. January

    1. 27 Design at Zello
      27 My thoughts on Design and how they apply at Zello.
    2. 23 Accountability
      23 How to address Manton Reeces, and what I believe on related topics.
    3. 22 Project Update 02
    4. 13 Partners for Life
      13 I got married. Here’s what that means to me.

  5. December 2024

    1. 25 Nearsighted Solutions
      25 We misattribute instigation when observing healthy boundaries.
    2. 03 The Personal Agency Fallacy
      03 We mistake agency for impact.

  6. October

    1. 10 Pas tous les hommes
      10 Gisèle Pelicot’s rapists’ defense predicates on their entitlement to the charity and empathy of both their fellow men and larger community. Give them none.

  7. September

    1. 19 Thirty
      19 I turned thirty today. These are some passing thoughts.
    2. 18 My Interview Process
      18 Read about my interview process and exercises for Product Designers

  8. August

    1. 31 Passion, Craft, and Career Advancement
      31 Can designers succeed without passion for craft, and does that passion predicate career success?
    2. 11 Threatening Communication

  9. July

    1. 19 Dumb Thoughts on Dumber AI

  10. June

    1. 03 Weaponized Effortlessness
    2. 02 Project Update 01

  11. February

    1. 02 Imposter Syndrome
    2. 01 Performativity and Anti-Marketing

  12. January

    1. 30 Opening the garage
      30 Working openly and publicly is good for community learning.
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