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Designer, Researcher, Manager — Daniel RitzenthalerHello. I'm Daniel Ritzenthaler. Most people call me Dan or Ritz. A designer since 2002. Along the way I've explored several research and management roles.Designer, Researcher, Manager — Daniel Ritzenthaler Daniel Ritzenthaler Home Articles About Systems Exhaustion and Playing Whack-A-Mole The more I study systems literature and attempt to apply what I learn, the more I encounter people (including me, multiple times) concentrating on levels of systems that are out of their direct or indirect influence. 08 Apr 2025 Manage - – — ≈ — – - Too Much Structure? It's important to demonstrate that adding too much structure can introduce whole new activities and efforts. And sometimes, that new work defeats the purpose of the original task. 02 Apr 2025 Design Manage The Design Way My favorite design book — without question. The Design Way, written by Harold G. Nelson and Erik Stolterman can be summarized as dismantling problems and solutions as the primary intellectual framing of design, and software development in general. 16 Feb 2025 Design In Pursuit of the Common Good A short, fun book written by Paul Newman and A.E. Hotchner telling their story of starting Newman’s Own and building it into an enormous, profitable, and beloved food company while donating more than $600 million to children along the way. 22 Jan 2025 Manage My Only Design Principle The suggestion to “make simple interfaces” can be laughed away as overly simplistic. Or, it could be an idealized standard that’s impossible to achieve. It all depends on your interpretation. 21 Jun 2024 Design A Reflective Conversation with a Situation Every profession is confronting a dilemma of rigor or relevance. On the “high ground” the problems are trivial. In “the swamp” below you can work on the important social and technological problems of the age, but you don’t know how to be rigorous in any way that you can name. 21 Jun 2024 Design Research Manage View all articles About the author Designer Researcher Manager Back to top RSS feed Contact Designed and coded in Boston using Sketch, GT Pressura, Eleventy, Nova, Polypane, and Transmit. Writing done in Bike and Writer. Mastodon Favorites Picsenen1771785841https://danritz.com

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