Rick Pollick

I Used to Think My Son Just Had a "Knack" for Baseball Games We were on the couch playing MLB The Show on PlayStation, and he was absolutely lighting me up. Home run after home run. Meanwhile, I was rolling over on sliders, chasing pitches in the dirt, and generally looking like someone who'd just picked up a controller for the first time. In real life, he's already a better baseball player than I ever was—more athletic, more fluid, more confident. Watching him mash in a game that mirrors the...

Design, Consistency & Complexity: Keeping UX and Brand Intact as Products Scale As products grow up and get more complicated, keeping the design user-friendly and on‑brand stops being a "nice UI" problem and becomes a full‑on product strategy problem. You either get intentional about the experience end‑to‑end, or complexity quietly eats your UX, your brand, and eventually your numbers. In this post, we'll walk through what really happens to your product as it grows up: why consistency in UI...

Organizing multiple teams around one shared product works best when structure, cadence, and metrics all serve one thing: value moving reliably into the hands of real users. From “Projects” to One Product When you spin up multiple (like Scrum) teams around closely related work, you either get a well‑orchestrated release train or a pile‑up of dependencies, rework, and half‑baked “Done.” The difference usually has less to do with how pretty your Jira board is and more to do with how you...