In this tutorial I cover how to use smart objects in Photoshop to quickly pop out a layer of a more complex file to make some edits before returning it to it's parent document. Knowing this functionality can save a lot of time.

In this tutorial I cover a super quick way to change your ruler measurement units. This quick tip will prevent you from having to dig in the preferences to switch between units of measurement. Additionally, you can use unit measurements when typing in most fields to avoid having to do the conversion yourself.

In this lecture I discuss the impact of the rapid acceleration of technology, and how it's tilt towards automation will impact the visual disciplines like graphic design and the arts. This is a companion-lecture to "The Speed Of Technology" that explores this rapid expansion as it relates directly to my life.

In this lecture I explore how everything we do in life carries an inherent implication with it, and how to use those to our advantage as designers. I cover the large overlap between design and film, along with ways that advertising has changed in recent years to influence people by more covert means.

In this lecture I examine what a Norman Door is, and how to avoid designing them. The talk speaks to topics about UI/UX in a digital world, skeuomorphism, and about how many tasks that once fell under the purview of an industrial designer have now become graphic designs tasks due to the digitization of many day-to-day interfaces.